10 on 10- January

WELL.... this didn't work so well.... I made it until Dax woke up from his nap and then stopped snapping pictures... oh well... here's what I tried to accomplish yesterday :)

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Look at me! I'm actually doing a 10 on 10! Impressive! haha :) This will be in reverse order since I going to build it throughout the day as the pictures are taken. Hoping this will help me COMPLETE this task. Please excuse the blurry cell phone pictures.

2:40pm Oh sunshine, how mean you are to be shining so brightly while I am working????


1:34pm FedEx dropped off our fantastic new hotspot and then me being the AWESOME teacher that I am, did not read all the directions like I ALWAYS tell students and parents to do so it took about 20 minutes longer to activate than it should have! Stupid!


12:38pm Nothing like a boy and his tractors



11:45am Holy Wind batman! Dax and I both about jumped out of our skin when this big 'ol branch hit our front door! So glad it hit the bottom metal part and not the top glass part

10:33am this is what our living room looks like when Mommy is too busy working to make Dax pick up his toys between tasks :) yes, those are empty Keystone boxes-- Daddy has made Dax a whole outfit out of them. I can't throw them away :)


9:45am Dax watching Mickey Mouse Club House in his jammies, yes it's a little late in the day to still be in jammies

New Years Resolution

So to be totally honest, I think New Years resolutions are silly. We never stick to them, so why make them???

Now, that being said. I'm going to see if posting on here what I would LIKE to do in 2012 will help me stick to it. I usually keep my resolutions to myself because I know I'll only stick to it for a couple of weeks. ha! SO my New Years resolution for 2012 is..... to be more healthy.

I figure that is broad enough to hopefully make it stick for at least a couple of months. I am a very healthy person (meaning I almost never get colds or other bugs) but I can always improve---I need to eat better and exercise more.

My biggest issue with exercise is I get bored very quickly. I hate exercising in the house and since we live in the middle of a big hill it's hard to take Dax with me for walks. SO those are my excuses for not exercising... I'm going to try to get over the exercising in the house one, ha! :) My goal is to exercise for 1/2 an hour 2-3 times a week and then slowly increase the frequency. I think I can get up 1/2 an hour early a few days a week and accomplish this without the help of Mr. Dax.

For those who know me I am not very good at eating good foods like veggies. For most I can't stand their texture. I have already done a lot better with expanding my food selections but this year I want to do even more 'trying' :)

Well there, I did it, it's public... let's see if I stick to it. :)

Wishing you and yours a wonderful, blessed 2012!!

It's my favorite time of the year

Christmas is my very favorite time of the year. I love filling our house with beautiful decorations, lighted trees (we have 3) and the joyful spirit that comes with the excitement of the year. Dax is not quite to the age of knowing what is going on but he does love looking at the decorations around our house and the Christmas lights when we are out and about. He calls our big Christmas Tree 'pretty' and each morning says 'pretty, please, pretty' which means he wants me to turn the lights on. He gets so excited as soon as it is lit.

I have always loved Christmas but there is something that much more magical about it when you include your own children. Even with having Children to remind us to slow down and enjoy this time of the year-sometimes I think we lose sight though about what Christmas is really about. I believe in God and that Christmas is the celebration of Jesus' birth. I believe that the gifts we give to each other are representation of the gifts given by the Wise Men to Jesus following his birth. That being said, I often wonder about those who don't believe in Jesus. I wonder what they really believe Christmas represents. It feels so sad to think that for them Christmas may just be about the presents. I hope and pray for those people, that if nothing else they recognize that Christmas is a time to get together with family and share the love that fills this season.

Our Christmas' have always been very busy. Even before Dustin and I got together, my family was all over the place on Christmas day. Now we have 5 Christmas' in 2 days-3 on Christmas day. Ya know what though, I wouldn't have it any other way! We get to see almost all of our family in 2 days and to me, that's important. I get all excited just thinking about it! :)

I wish you all a very Merry Christmas and I hope I get to see you over Winter Break.

With my bonus girl, Kyleigh, in our matching snowman hats.

My story about Santa

Last year one of my friends at work was asking us all what we were told growing up or what we tell kiddos about Santa when asked if he is real. So while standing in the hallway coming up with ideas here is what I put together from what A. I was told growing up B. What I have come up with as an adult and C. What a pulled out of my @$$ at that very moment. Ha! I hope you enjoy....

Child: Mommy Santa isn't real, is he?

Mom: WHAT (shock, horror, panic) who told you that?

Child: Some kid at school.

Mom: You know that I still believe in Santa don't you?

Child: So he is real?

Mom: I believe that Santa is real. That Santa comes to us each year to bring us happiness and excitement on top of a very special present Christmas morning. I also believe that when you stop believing in Santa he stops coming. That's why I still believe in him, I'm afraid if I didn't believe he wouldn't visit us.

Child: So what about those kids that don't believe? My friend at school says that YOU put my present under the tree.

Mom: If a child doesn't believe in Santa then yes, his/her parents do put the present out from Santa BECAUSE they don't believe anymore so Santa doesn't come to their house. Wouldn't they be sad if they woke up Christmas morning and there wasn't a Santa present under the tree.

Child: Yeah, of course. So do you put the present under the tree or does Santa?

Mom: Well, do you believe in Santa?

At this point I have no idea how the rest of the story would go because... well... I haven't had to REALLY give this talk before... I am REALLY hoping that at this point Kyleigh or Dax would say 'It's okay Mom, that kid was STUPID and of course I believe in Santa still. '

I dread the day that Kyleigh and Dax stop believing in Santa. While I do believe that Christ is the true reason for the season, Santa lends a certain element of child-like excitement in all of us.

For the record, I do still believe in Santa. Santa brings booze to my parents house for all the adults that still believe. :-p

The snow has hit!

I just had to post these pictures from yesterday. I wish you could hear his giggling!



It's still snowing here! I have no idea how much we are supposed to get but it looks like I am going to have to wait to rake the rest of my leaves this spring... oh joy! ha! :)

for the love of leaves

Dax has discovered what we all know and love about fall... playing in leaves rocks! :)

He ran through them, threw them around and even tried to help rake. He is still not a big fan of being put in the middle of the pile but there is always next year.

We have three maple trees in the yard and it sure seems like they are fully loaded in leaves even though Dustin has burned 2 HUGE piles of leaves. Hopefully it doesn't snow anytime soon so we can get them all taken care of.

Hope you are all enjoying the fun that comes with the fall season.

Our little monster!

It took two of us to get Dax into his costume and we had to move from house to house in a hurry so he wouldn't melt in his costume OR get out of it. He is just so darn cute!

We had so much fun going trick or treating last night. Dustin, Dax and I went to all the great grandma's houses and grandparents. For only going to 5 houses Dax had a pretty full bag of treats AND managed to eat almost 5 suckers! He was a sticky mess by the time we got home. :-)