Tuesday, December 30, 2008

A New Year

I think it's time to start thinking about what we want out of the new year. First let's reflect, last year I wanted to get organized. 
My 'magic file cabinet' didn't exactly do it's job - all those papers are still laying around the house waiting for someone to put them away. 
My huge desk calendar that I mounted on the wall did not do it's job of recording all engagements to be sure that we never forgot a date (or a bill payment for that matter). To tell you the truth the file cabinet still has one completely empty drawer and a stack of papers shoved into the top one. The calendar just recently got the July - November pages torn off and believe me, I've missed many an engagement and bill payment!  If I remember correctly part of getting organized was to complete all the creative projects that have been started but never finished. Well, I still have several boxes of half complete projects.  I learned that 'get organized' is not a good goal. 

This year I'm thinking  more along the lines of read more books, go to dinner & a movie dates once a week or become independently wealthy. I still have two days to work on it though so I'll get back to you on what I come up with. 

Some Christmas Highlights

Before it hits 2009 I better talk about our Christmas. We had such a good time, lots of gifts and fun and family. I'm being too lazy to upload all those Christmas pics here as well as myspace so you can check it out there if you really want to see our pics! Kolbi got a little video recorder, it's supposed to be super easy to upload videos to the internet so maybe we'll actually have some video on my blog?! I think that was her fave gift. Riley's fave is probably his mass amount of Star Wars Legos - he's been building and building and building. Although a close second is the Magnetix set that came from Nichole and the gang. Justin's fave - the Encyclopedia of Punk book that we got him.  My fave? hmmm, there are so many! I LOVE my Slice and my luggage and my super cool red purse and the Bettie Page Movie absolutely everything! We decided to buck tradition a little this year and have a steak and potato dinner - which turned out yummy!

There was lots of snow, as you can see from all my daily December pics. It was so different having a white Christmas. Even though this is our third year here it is the first time we've had this much snow on Christmas. A big change from sunny Phoenix! We loved it. 

Monday, December 29, 2008

Daily December Catch Up

Ok - I slacked on the posting but I did get the pics! Here they are:
23rd - Riley and the neighbor girl were working on his snow fort when the girls stopped by. They were dressed up so cute I snapped their pic - the other two couldn't be bothered to stop and pose!
24th - well, really, really late on the 24th - this is the pic after Santa came.
25th - A shot of Kolbi and I on Christmas day (I totally asked her not to wear those jeans!)
26th - Lots of snow here! This is my front porch, shot from the comfort of my doorway.
27th - The snow fort that Riley & Justin keep working on.

28th - The snow fort is starting to melt so Riley decided to make an indoor fort. 

Saturday, December 27, 2008

Do You See What I See?

I can't believe it.... one, two, three, FOUR smiling faces?! No weirdly inappropriate clothing... eyes open, no tongues...any bad fingers?? NO! This may very well be the best family snapshot in the last 3 years. It's a Christmas miracle. 

Tuesday, December 23, 2008

Get A Video From SANTA!

Go check out this blog and see the instructions to make a very personalized video to your kids from Santa. It's super cool and you should do it tonight :)