Where has the new year gone..

I have pretty much not posted diddly recently. It's not because I have forgotten, infact I check everyone's blogs almost daily, it's just that I get logged in and then suddenly I don't know what to say or I feel guilty because I have a million and one other things to finish up. But tonight, nothing can stop me now!

(So now a trip back in time)...

We had our first snow December 29th, it was great because it was light but we had enough to make a decent snowman. It started snowing in the early afternoon while Julius was at work and I was supposed to take the girls to gymnastics, but after a few hours of light flakes and then larger flakes I decided that we would skip gymnastics and instead take a walk around the block. When we got home we started a snowman, but I couldn't roll any more so when Julius got home he made the bottom and head, then it took all four of us to lift the body on top of the base, Julius got some "arms" from our tree, and I plucked some rocks from beside our house, and got some gloves a scarf and hat for good ol' frosty.











We spent new years at home, but somewhere in there we took the girls to their first movie, The Princess and the Frog. They had a good time, and sat pretty still for most of it. Afterwards we took them to the PIR for the lights, they enjoyed that.

We had Adrianne's birthday party, on her real b-day this year, Jan 3rd. I'm sorry if you were not invited, believe me I had you all in mind, but we had a very small area to accommodate everyone since we had her b-day at our house. We had to be very sensitive to the available area. I think she had a nice birthday, we got her the cake she wanted and my mom bought her a Barbie scooter, while I got her a Barbie horse and a Ariel Polly Pocket. She got a ton of presents, so many that we still have a couple that have not been opened yet.




My mom has been visiting for a while now and last week we had time to go to MOMS Club and get rid of the over abundance of kids stuff we had accumulated (which really helped to make room for the Christmas/Birthday gifts) then this last weekend we took time to tackle my mess of a bedroom, since we had Christmas day and Adrianne's birthday I had just shoved all the extra straggling boxes from our move into my room, plus I had all my scrapping stuff still in boxes, so my mom and aunt helped me to organize all that and make it useful again. I cannot believe how big our master bedroom is! We still have room to dance in there.

The girls are both doing well, they are onto the next level of gymnastics and spending 1 hour per session. They really like it and I feel they are doing well. Alexa had her first real mom-free field trip, they went to the Children's Museum, which I wish I could have went but I was in school. She was able to go with her "older" and it sounds like she had an awesome time there. Adrianne is still enjoying school, she says it's "the funnest place!"

Today we spent the day at great grandma's the girls played while me and my mom and aunt worked in a really hard puzzle. It was nice though, it's kinda fun to be without technology for a day, although I know I had alot of other things that needed to get done, but really some things can wait.. Especially since tomorrow is a holiday anyway so the girls and I are off school. Come to think of it the girls only go to school one day this week..

Okay well I am done now, I better get to loading the photos. I hate loading them onto this blog, it takes forever and even longer to try and position them.. Such a pain. So you all better enjoy them!