The baby is here!!

My niece finally had her baby last night via c-section. Caden was born last night weighing in at a VERY healthy 10lbs. 50z. & 20.5 inches long. I've gotten a pic of him but it's through my phone but he is adorable. Thank goodness when I buy baby clothes I buy them a size bigger or so then needed. He won't fit into small sizes for very long. I always teased my sister for birthing the biggest baby that I've known. My niece was 9lbs 15.5 ozs. And now my niece has beaten my sister. Showing off to out do her mom...ha!!

Props to my niece!! Congrats Miss Megan...I love you very much!! You will be a FABULOUS mother!!

Whooohhhoooo!!

A baby is finally on it's way. My niece is at the hospital while we speak being induced!! Looks like I will FINALLY get to "meet" the baby...via the internet of course. But at least this pregnancy is almost over. My niece has had a rough last few weeks. Little stinker doesn't want to come out...at 41 weeks my niece is READY to deliver!

So everyone say a little pray for her this evening for a quick, natural, safe, and wonderful delivery! I'll post about my new niece or nephew is soon I here!

Presents under the tree and children DO NOT MIX!

So I've trying to be good and wrap a little bit each night just so I have a handle on what all I need, what is still missing etc. Well my great niece's present has no been re-wrapped twice and it's waiting to be wrapped again but b/c I'm sick of wrapping it it's gonna sit there until the weekend...lol

Grant jumped over the back of the couch onto my coffee table...Ok first off note that he shouldn't have been jumping over the back of the couch to begin with, secondly not directly on my coffee table. Making him step on the present and break the wrapping. Then he tears it a little more to make sure it's nothing for him.

Then Miss G helps herself to it the next night all b/c it's wrapped in Winnie the Pooh paper so she just assumes it's hers. The same night we wrapped gifts for their dad. Well tonight as I'm coming out of the laundry room Miss G is standing there looking at me all innocent. SHe mumbles something, grabs my hand and leads me to the living room. To show me......

THE PRESENT FOR HER DAD THAT SHE HAD UNWRAPPED!!! And then she picks it up and twirls around with it. What the heck! SO now that present has now been chucked into the closet until a later time.

Next year I'm wrapping empty boxes for under the tree. I HATE not having gifts under the tree.

Oh yeah and there still isn't a baby. I think that baby has decided it doesn't want Christmas gifts this year...hehe

An attempt at Christmas cards...

Here is a sneak peek at some of the shots I took for our Christmas cards. None of the shots taken here are even close to the one I used, so the real one is still a surprise. But I had to share these b/c they are just to darn funny. Gracie was a nut during these pics. My camera flash goes off two times taking the actual picture during the second flash. Well after the first one went off Gracie would scream "I wanna see, I wanna see" So that is way in every single picture she looks like a total goofball. She was so excited she couldn't stand it. :) Poor Grant was getting so mad b/c he was so sick of taking pictures. And he was doing excellent on his smiling so that frustrated him even more...ha!! Enjoy.






I loved this one in front of the fireplace, but after taking the picture I realized I never put there shoes on them, so we nixed that shot.

Hugs and squeezes for bubby. If only they loved each other that much all the time. ;)

Winter Weather Advisory.

YUCK! Today we had my husband's huge christmas with the entire side. WOW....talk about a madhouse. There are now 17 great grandchildren. All under the age of 11. EEK! Neeless to say when I got home I enjoyed the loudness of just my TWO children. :)

The trip home was interesting...even with our four wheel drive it scared me somewhat. No big drifts or anything, but just slick roads. It's been snowing all day and it's now starting to get super nasty. I'm thankfull we have no place to go tomorrow as I really dont' feel the need to venture out. :( I would have loved to done a little Christmas shopping as I really need to get the stuff for my family outwest in the mail but it'll wait til mid week now. Though they are saying it could get down with the wind chill to the NEGATIVES. What the heck...I'm not ready for this cold of weather yet. January or February maybe but not the first of december. Though I'd love a Christmas with LOTS of snow! :) Can I possibly have lots of snow and 80 degree weather?! Is that to much to ask?

So if you anywhere but the midwest enjoy your warmer weather. I took some pics over the last few days so I'll be downloading those tonight and I'll post a picture entry later.

Go grab a cup of hot chocolate and settle in by the fire. It's going to be a cold one tonight. bbrrrr!

OMGoodness....

Ok so first off...still no baby. Apparently it just wants us to sit and wait impatiently...and make it's mommy miserable. :( Another appt next week but hopefully it's here by then. My brother-in-law said my niece could wait and just have it on his birthday....yeah that's the 12th. My niece wasn't real thrilled with that I don't think....hehe

So I decided to night that I really need to sit down and get started on my wrapping....yeah....so I'm the type that shops year round. None of this starting in October...yeah I start Christmas shopping the day after Christmas. I see something I know someone would like by the next year I buy it. Plain and simple. I'm all about finding a $25.00 item for $5. and I'm not afraid to share my bargain prices either.

SO this might have been the year where I shopped a little TOO early and played the mother card and forgotten about ALOT of stuff. OOPS! i'm finding sacks that I forgot I even bought! So wish me luck as I try and sort out what I have and what I'm still needing!

A baby maybe....

So I'm a patient person to a point. But right now I'm being not so patient...hehe. My niece is expecting a baby and I'd really really like to "meet" it. Via the net of course since they don't live near. But still....the poor thing is now overdue and I know how miserable she is. I was overdue with Miss G. I never thought that kid was coming out!!

So tonight when I go to bed I'll say yet another prayer to her get that kid out. Did I mention we have no idea what it is. Which makes me crazy. Either way I have stuff to take back. lol When i see something I like b/c there is always that "what if it's not there when I come back to get it."

Well have a fantastic rest of the night. I'm home again tomorrow.

A peek in November, Part 1

Ok so I've got way to many photos to share for the month of November! Hmmmm maybe if I'd post more I wouldn't have to blog in "parts" eh?!

Look closely in this pic...Grant lost his 1st tooth! The tooth fairy left him $5.00. Daddy says the tooth fairy leaves wwaayyy to much money!

This pic is for my sister! She should recognize this hat! I wore it when I was the flower girl in her wedding. Wait...did that just show your age or mine?! hehe ....Gracie insisted on wearing it and fighting people with a light saber! She's one tough cookie I tell ya!!

This is Grant showing off his Turkey, as a school assignment each student had to hide a turkey. And well it was just a simple thought that we needed to make him "camo." Now I should really say Mommy made him camo. Grant did about a 1/4 of it while I did the other. I even added boots, a bright orange sockhat, and binoculars. I apparently have way to much time on my hands...HA!

Both of the pics above and below go with this....These were on November 3rd. Which would have been my mother's 68th birthday. We do a balloon release and send her balloons in heaven. Now my sister knows this story and maybe my brother but Grant released the one that looked "boyish",Gracie didn't want to let her balloon go so I went ahead and released the pink heart. THinking she would want the really cute cupcake shaped balloon. Well i was wrong. She cried out of control b/c I sent the pink one to heaven and she wanted that one. Long story short.....we still have the cupcake shaped balloon in out house. Had I taken it from her and not let her keep I'm pretty sure my mother would have told God to strike me with lightening. HA!!

So there is a peek into our November, well part 1.

A new thing...

So about mid-November I had decided that I was going to take the blogging world by storm and blog every single day in the month of December. Complete with pics and all. Today I realized it was already the 2nd of December. I missed a day already! My excuse...my daughter not feeling well. I was home sick with her yesterday and she is fighting what I think is a horrible sinus infection complete with gunky eyes and crackling cough. So I was a littl busy tending to her and kicking butt in the housecleaning dept. With only one kid around yesterday I got mucho cleaning done. Areas that I kept avoiding are now clean! :) yeah for me.

So ....tonight you will be blessed with yet another blog entry from me and maybe I'll throw in some pictures. Makes up for my day missed yesterday.

Til then....