Hello All

So, how is life treating you all??  Is all your family traditions started?  Do you have your Christmas time planned out?  How does it work for your family??

Our family forest consists of having a couple relatives here at one time.  Then we go to another relatives house.  Then my dad’s side of the family has a huge party usually on the 1st of January.  Sometimes, Christmas takes 2 weeks for us.  It can be tring, tiring and crazy trying to keep it all straight and set it all up.

What is nice this year is that I’m not competing for time off from work and the salon is fairly lenient on their holiday schedule.  It is also nice that I have “weird” days off like Monday’s.  I can get some other things done when other people can’t.  Or I can just CHILL!!!

So give me the 411 on your traditions!  I wanna hear it!

Getting My Lists Made Up

It’s that time of year to figure out what to get for all the loved ones.  This year seems especially difficult and I have no idea why.  Last night David and I sat down and looked through some websites that he had saved.  But personally to me, nothing really jumped out at me.

I have a TON of stuff saved from shopping through the year for Regan.  However, it is all in my closet and I need time to go through everything and figure out what I have.  Then I’m going to have to figure out what to tell other people and also figure out something to get her from Santa.

I started a theme for some people but I don’t necessarily want to theme everyone.  It seems hard this year.

Any ideas, any suggestions of what you are doing for gifts this year?  It would be very helpful.  Just tell me what you want – that would make it really easy!!!!

Okay, this is a lame post

I just need an easy one today and I’m sorry to do this to you all.

Here is a pic of Regan that I loved from Christmas.  Enjoy

Yes the stripes are dizzying!

Christmas with Regan

Mostly pics from Christmas morning:
Opening up the Little People Bus

Playing the Sax (because Christmas isn’t the same without some sax music!)

Looking adorable in a new t-shirt from Grandpa Steve

Okay, here is my Dad’s side of the family:
This is just part of the room

This is more of the room

Thank goodness for Great Aunt Missy, 2nd cousin Shannon and Kyrie, they kept her amused for a while – maybe it was the other way around

Day26 – I came to the realization…..

I knew that Christmas was coming, really I did.  But seriously less than 29 days now??  Huh??!!! 

Granted I got the downstairs looking decent, if I can just keep up with it for 29 days.  The upstairs however is a COMPLETELY different story.  And to think, I still have to get out the Christmas stuff and put away other stuff and let the containers still sit in my room for a while longer.  UGH, when will I ever get my room straightened out?!

So I found the movie that I was hoping to come across for Regan for Christmas, Mary Poppins.  I think that she is going to LOVE it!  I hope anyway.  It will be fun for me for a while if she isn’t into it yet.

So David knows everything that he is getting because Regan showed him the box of pots and pans.  Lovely…….  I don’t know what else to get him, however I did see something over the weekend that he might like.

Regan is so covered that no one else has to get her anything.  I might as well put everyone else’s names on her presents!!  I can’t believe how crazy I have been with wanting to get her stuff this year.

I have a couple gifts that are extra for people but I don’t know who they are going to yet.

That is about all from here.  Have a great Monday.