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What a great week

This week has went by way too fast. I had all of my guys home all week long. Dave had his extra day off this week so he was home for 5 days straight. I love times like that. On Monday we went to Belleville to the Shrine to see the Christmas lights display. They really go all out. I cant imagine how much time goes into it. It is so beautiful though and Mychael always loves it. Brayden seemed to not care either way :). Hes getting a little more interested in all the Christmas decorations around the house EXCEPT the snowman in the pictures below. Still having major attitude with him and hitting him and knocking him down every time he passes him. Tuesday we had a birthday party we went to. Wednesday Dave had a meeting he had to go to in the evening so it was just me and the boys. I wasn't really feeling good for the rest of the week so we didn't do a whole lot except take it easy and just relax which is just as nice.

I am so excited for Monday. I am SO behind on my Christmas shopping. It almost sends me into a panic attack every time I think of how many days are left. I am usually done by now. So Monday I am going to attack the Christmas shopping and try to get it done. Hopefully I can find everything I want so I don't have to stress over it all. That is why I usually try to get it done early. After how much Ive kicked myself for not getting it done this year NEXT year I will probably have it done in July LOL!!

I am been baking like crazy lately. I am finding that I really like baking and have been trying new things. Ive tried a couple of pumpkin cakes (both turned out GREAT!), then I tried a cake (also turned out great but it was UGLY!), then the other night I tried a recipe for cream cheese cookies (turned out HORRIBLE!), and then today I made gooey butter cookies (I have never had these before so I don't know if they taste right or not. Waiting to take them to the fire dept to find out). So if anyone has any good recipes let me know. I am trying to bake all of this for the firefighters so it all doesn't end up in our house and on my ass. I make Dave take it to work so its not even tempting.

Well I hope everyone is doing well. I don't really have any new pictures. I will download the camera and see what I have and post next time

See ya!
Christy

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Christmas time!

Well we got to put the Christmas tree up this week. This is one of my favorite things to do with my family. I love to watch all my guys while it is going on. We have a tradition of watching National Lampoons Christmas Vacation while doing it (as you will see in one of the pictures lol). I really thought we would have a problem with Brayden wanting to get into everything and so I was nervous about putting everything out but as we were putting it up I tried to get him into the tinsel and he wanted NOTHING to do with it. He hated all of it so I figured I could put all of my stuff out and it'd be safe. Unfortunately today he has discovered the ornaments and likes to tug on them so that will be an issue. He is so cute though. He has some serious attitude going on with a dancing snowman that I have. I was taking pictures of him and he was posing and apparently he didn't like that the snowman was stealing his shot so he decided to beat him down :) So these are the pictures from that and then some of the pictures from us putting up the tree.

See ya!
Christy

The past week

Well Thanksgiving came and went. Dave had to work for it and Mychael was with his dad and Tracey so I went down to Chester with Brayden to be with my family for it. I think Brayden was pretty overwhelmed by all the people and immediately wanted to attach himself to my leg and stay there. We ended up leaving early and driving back so he would sleep and get in a better mood. He was back to happy when we got home so I spent the evening playing with him and eating leftovers. On Saturday we had thanksgiving with Daves family. Just a quiet nice dinner. It was good that we got to be with both families for the holidays. I always feel bad if we miss one or the other so this year it worked out great.

Last night was the football banquet. Mychael was so excited to go. Brayden stayed home so it was me and Dave, Mychaels dad and Tracey, and Mychael. We got there and sat around and talked and then got in line for dinner. They had a nice restaurant in Granite cater it and so we ate good! After that they had a few guest speakers. They were all nice to listen to and I enjoyed hearing their stories (even though one went on forever and you would have thought he was trying to recruit incoming freshman rather then talking to a group of 8-12 year olds) and what they had to say. We made Mychael perk up and listen. I want him to learn that there is more to it then just the game. Its hard to keep an 8 year old listening when even half the adults in the room were playing with their cups and looking around bored :) After that it was on to them introducing the coaches and then each coach gave their team members a medal and introduced them. Then their team was presented with the trophy for winning the championship. I love watching Mychael in situations like this. He is just so proud looking. It makes me happy for him. His coach said something that will stay with me and made me laugh. He was talking about education and grades and he said in his house is goes like this...getting an A means awesome. getting a B means be careful. getting a C means caution. cause getting a D means death. I LOVED that!! LOL!! On the way home we talked to Mychael about grades and how all of that plays into getting to play football. I told him that when you play for the school if you get bad grades they don't let you play and when you play for the park district if you get bad grades WE don't let you play. He seemed to get it. Although the kid is an A student it never hurts to try to scare him into staying that way. So here are the pictures from last night.

See ya!

Christy