Busy day

We did a complete re-org of the garage today.  Funny thing is, you wouldn't be able to tell just by looking at it... there's still a LOT of stuff in there.  But it feels pretty great to us. 

No pix of that... but here are a few of my other project, before the New Year starts...

My first ever attempt at cutting The Boy's hair on my own.  When we lived with my folks, my mom always did it, and the last few times, I've just taken him to the barber down the road.  Today, though, I decided to be brave and try it on my own, so I borrowed a pair of clippers from a friend and away we went.

Not too bad, if I do say so myself.

Rough day here...

For some friends, anyways... and The Honey's been gone most of the day helping them out.  Mostly, we're just thankful that things weren't worse than they were.

Nothing picture-worthy, though... most exciting thing I did today was re-arrange the kitchen and find places for all of my new Christmas goodies :D  I wasn't sure it'd all fit, but I ended up with extra room once I was all finished.  That felt good.

Here's to a better day tomorrow!

Ugh...

4 days with no posts... but it was Christmas.  You forgive me, right?

Lots of pix over the last few days, and I'll try to find some time to put a few up.

My guys are both home right now, though, which is what makes it harder to post.  Too much other fun stuff to do :D

Christmas was amazing, and my loved ones are WAY too generous.  Let's leave it at that.  I am more blessed than I ever thought I could be.

Here's hoping everything is going as well for you as it is for us.

<3

Cookie Day #3

Cookie decorating with some friends today.  The kids had a great time.  The Boy made lots of different cookies, but my favorites were the ones with our Team's colors ;)

We were also supposed to make pie, but that's been put off till tomorrow, since the egg substitute I bought was chunky when I opened it.  Um... EW.  It was too late by that point to bother going out, so we'll have to hit the store in the morning and try again.  On the bright side, though, The Boy really enjoys cooking with me, so he'll help once we get started again. 

Today was cookie day #2 (out of 3, I think). 


I took The Boy and his best friend over to a family friend's house...We did like 5 types of cookies, and they boys both started out a little bit 'eh' about doing cookies, but in the end, I think they had a great time. 

Our pieces de resistance were these 'melted snowmen'.  Cute, but harder to decorate than you'd think.  We each did a few, but let me tell you... I don't think I'd do a whole batch of these by myself.  Oy... these 3 were enough for me. 

Already dropped the ball...

But that's why I started early, right?  To try to get a running start at this thing. 

Yesterday we met some friends to make cookies.  I meant to take a picture, but no such luck... so here's a generic internet picture ;)  We're not finished over there, and will meet back up with them on Thurs. for sugar cookies.

 

Tonight, the Little Man says "Awww... I should have asked for weights for Christmas"  He doesn't want to "be a wimp my whole life"... Um... ok... Anyways, the Honey says if he keeps his room clean, he can have the set that was already sitting in the garage.  SO... here's my guys hamming it up with their weights.  

 

Next few days... lots of cookies, cookies, more cookies and some pie ;)

An early resolution

I've recently met someone online who is great about chronicling her family's life.  She takes at least 1 picture/day of something that's happened, and writes maybe a paragraph or 2.  I think that's awesome, and am going to try to do this this coming year.  I'd like to blog about us more... what's going on here and so on.  So here's to the (early) start of Project 365/2011.  I'm excited about it now, so we'll start a few days before the new year.

The Boy spent the night last night with a friend, so The Honey and I had a nice chill evening wrapping his presents.  Now I'm in the front half of the living room while The Honey wraps *my* presents behind the couch.  We've got football on the TV, but "our" game isn't on until 4:15, so we've got time to kill.


Here's how we spend our Sundays - The Game is on, and we're spending our time in the online community for our team.  Before the weather turned nasty, we'd spend a good part of the afternoon before our game and then again at halftime throwing around the pigskin in the back yard.  That's no longer possible, but we still spend the afternoon together with our football :D.