A quick update...

So Christmas is over. We had a great day. I got a new camera which is a bit intimidating to me at the moment. It has tons of bells and whistles that my current camera doesn't have. I can't wait to use it more though.

I gained a pound over the holiday, which isn't bad considering "they" say the average person gains 5-7 pounds over Thanksgiving and Christmas.

The kids have been crazy, and sick. Seems like we have all had a touch of something over the last 2 weeks ranging from an UTI to fevers and snotty noses. 

New years eve is tomorrow. Mike and I are supposed to be going out, but still need to hear from our friends who went out of town for the holiday and won't be returning till tomorrow. Also my sister was sick so we don't know if we still have a sitter or not. Hopefully we still get to go out though.

Nothing else too exciting really.

I hope you all have a happy new year.

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Holiday Plans.....

So tomorrow we head to my hometown to celebrate christmas with them. It should be fun. I don't think I mentioned before that my Grandma is now in a nursing home.

She initially got sick when I was pregnant with Dalton, at Christmas time-so that would be 2002. She spent a brief rehab period in a nursing home/hospital then returned home and has been living on her own since then. My parents helped her clean house, and took her medications to her, but it finally had to end. She has dementia and it was just getting to bad for her to be on her own. So it is going to be odd visiting her in a nursing home, but I know she HAS to be there. My Grandma, the Grandma I remember has been gone for a couple years now.....Wow, that is depressing, don't know why I ran off on that one.

Anyway........

I lost .5 pound this week....better than nothing I guess.

WINTER AND WEIGHT LOSS

Ok, so I lost another 1.5 pounds putting me at.....drumroll please....

31

pounds lost!!!!!

On another note I have added more photos to the photo challenge page.

Today the "blizzard" came through. According to my snowman in the front yard we've gotten about 8 inches.

I just let the dogs outside and it is still snowing so I am guessing at this rate my snowman will be covered by morning. I am hoping for a snowday tomorrow, so is Dalton :)

What else  is new....oh, I rejoined the gym. I have went twice, but I really want to try and get some sort of routine for myself. Now that I've lost this weight, I am pretty flabby and could stand to get some exercise.

On kind of a funny note, I cannot find the remote for our living room. So I have shut the TV off in there until Mike gets home tomorrow and can look for it....he was the last one to touch it. We have direct TV in 3 rooms, and two of them have interchangable remotes, but since the living room has Tivo on it as well, we can only use that certain remote. I think he accidentally put it in his bag when he was getting ready for work. If it ends up popping up someplace silly I will definatly update on that....I know, such exciting news.

So, I suppose that is it. The kids are very excited about Santa's arrival next week, and we are going to my parents on Friday to have christmas there so they will get to open some really fun gifts before Christmas actually gets here.

I'm sure I will post again before christmas......

Have a good week!

From me and my BIG FAT HEAD!

Ok Nancy, I'm joining in too!

After reading Nancy's Blog I too am going to do the 50 photo challenge.
Here is the link to my page to see how I am doing:
CARYNS WINTER PHOTO CHALLENGE PAGE
You can also find the link to the challenge page if you'd like to do it as well.
Should be interesting!

Happy Holidays....

So the holiday season is officially here. Our house is decked out in lights....giving the Griswalds a run for their money! I love it though. I don't let it stress me too much, I have enough non holiday stuff to stress me on a daily basis. The kids are SUPER excited and ask if Santa is coming tomorrow.....EVERYDAY!
All my cards have been mailed out.
My shopping is done for the most part. Just a couple stray gift cards to pick up, a couple boxes to pack and ship.

We picked up the tree the other day. This was our first year that all of us went to the tree farm and hiked out to get our tree. It was beautiful outside walking through all the trees while the snow was coming down.....Cold as hell though....well, hell is supposed to be hot, but you know what I mean.