New Year's!

I can't believe 2008 is just about over! This year has gone by so fast. It's been a fun year learned lots of new things. Though I'm sad to see it go, I can't wait for 2009! It's going to be a great year!I'm not in the typing/writing mood tonight, more of the "show off" mood so here's some of my favoraite moment of 2008 in pictures!

Talk to you all next year...HAHAHAHA

Merry Christmas!

We had a great day today...tiring, but good. Yesterday the kids and I made Spritz cookies for Santa.

Then at night they got to open one present....which is their Christmas PJ's.
N was ok with just opening one present....M not so much she had a few melt downs when we had to tell her she couldn't open the rest under the tree....Good thing we did it right before bedtime. Here's the tray of cookies and milk for Santa, and apples for the reindeer(I forgot to get carrots, but they were gone in the morning so they must have liked them:)!)
The tree before kids
N got us up VERY early...well very early for me and M that is.
As you can see M is not a morning person, she wasn't so happy we got her up.
Separating presents
Here's the kids opening some presents....




N showing off his Lego set,

M losing interest in opening presents,
She just wanted to sit and play,
Noel enjoying some of her Christmas present,
N with his pile of toys,

M with her pile of toys.

After presents we had breakfast, which is always Cinnamon buns. Then the kids pretty much just played the rest of the day. Daddy and I did lot's of opening for the first few hours. Thankfully I had put together the doll crib a few days ago, so all Daddy had to put together was Spike the dinosaur. Isn't he cool!

You think so....unless you are M, the girl is scared of him, and I mean screaming, will not let go of me scared. Unfortunately N didn't get to play with him much cuz of it, but he got lot's of play time out of him during M's nap time! I'm sure in a few days she'll be wanting to play with it herself(or at lest I can hope:)!)

As far as hubby and I we made out pretty good, though we both got our presents early. He got some Xbox games that came out, he did get Dark Knight today, and a little Nerf gun so he can play with N with it. I got a Nintendo DS(breast cancer edition) and the cooking "game" for it. I did get myself a few other games by trading in my old Nintendo stuff. So we had a good day. Now it's time for the kids to go spend their gift cards which N is excited about(M will once we get there). Thank you everyone and I hope everyone had a safe, fun, and happy Christmas!

Small Update(added pictures)

I've been meaning to post about last weekend's birthday parties, but never got around to it. So to tied everyone over till Christmas(in just 2 days Yeah!!) here's a little mini post!

Around this time of year we don't only have Christmas but 4 birthdays also. I guess that's what I get for having friends with kids around my kids birthdays :)! Thankfully they are in sets of 2 and the 2 girls had theirs last weekend one Saturday and one Sunday.

Saturday was my very good friend T's little girl's party, at the park. The kids had a blast, M was great she let T's husband hold her and give her five, which normally she screams blooding murder anytime he comes within a few feet of her. I got the cutest picture of N and his best friend.

Here is the cute birthday girl

And her cute purse cake, the other side had a number two on it.

On Sunday was K's party at a place called Pump it Up. It's this place with all different bounce houses in it. M had a bad cough and the party was also during her nap time so I left her home with daddy who also was sick. I also wasn't sure if she was old enough to really be able to go on anything....I was wrong she would have been, but she still would have been a crab since it was nap time. Unfortunately we decided to leave M home about 30mins before I left so I had just grabbed my wallet and throw it in my purse and totally didn't get the camera...I was kicking myself later for that one. N had a ball, he was totally wore out by the end of the party from all the running and bouncing and sliding.

Yesterday we went to my friend T's so the kids to exchange Christmas presents. N had been looking forward to it for about a week now. Anytime the boys can get together we don't hear the end of it till they see each other. The kids had a blast like they always do together. I do have pictures, but the camera died while it was uploading so as soon as the batteries are charged I'll add them.

Here are all the kids opening the presents.

Now we are just waiting for Christmas. I made N a little count down chart(which if anyone knows where I can find a cute one to make or buy let me know I can't find one anywhere). Every morning he gets to tear off the number to see how many more days. He's been having so much funny with it, we made one for his birthday too.(Again picture to come)

Here's our countdowns.

Thanks to my SIL who emailed me last night an idea to make links, which I did end up doing for N's birthday one, it's so thick he had a hard time riping it off this morning. He had fun helping me make it this morning. (I have it on the side of the fridge so I can open the door with out hitting it:)

Though for long term I was looking for something a little different. My bad for not explaining better :)! When I was young we had this hanger that had 25 pockets with numbers on it and each day you moved the little mouse to the next pocket till it was at 1 or 25 however we went that yr. I'm looking for something along that lines. Durable for longivity, but moveable or flipable

My Puppies

I somehow managed to acquire two little puppies instead of kids. Yesterday N decided that he wanted to be a puppy all day down to even wanting to play caught. It was quite cute(even if I was getting a little tire of calling my son a puppy). By the end of the night I managed to get a M puppy too! Needless to say M was a puppy today, thankfully with her she comes in and out of it a lot:)!

Picking it up with his teeth

"Retrieving" his toy
Giving it to Daddy for a other throw

I wish I could have gotten this on video with sound cuz M is just so funny when she does it. Whenever anyone does something good(and even things on TV) she'll crouch down and "jump" up in the air with her hands up and say "Yeah!" It's the funniest thing. I think she's practicing to be a cheerleader. Here's a picture I've gotten of her doing it. (sorry the picture is so fuzzy, I had the camera on nighttime cuz I was trying to get a picture outside of the light from the biggest moon the night before, it was so pretty, but wasn't working)

YEAH!

Surgery

Today I had an appointment with my TMJ dr(specialty dentist). It was to finally decide on having the TMJ surgery that we had talked about almost 2.5yrs ago. For those that don't know I was in a car accident 3yrs ago, which caused some damage to my TMJ area(I'm not really sure if it's an area or bone or muscle, as far as term goes, but anyways, it's right at the behind your ear where your jaw would meet up with the ear.) Without going into to much detail I get headaches, pains in my ear, jaw, and it hurts to eat certain foods. I think in my mind I had already decided to have the surgery, but then I got pregnant with M so we had to hold off cuz I couldn't get xrays done. Then everything with M, drs appointments, MRI's, therapies, I had gotten in to see him, just never set a date for the surgery, and just kept pushing back calling till things with M slowed down. Today we set a date Jan 19th. It will be a week recovery mostly cuz he also will be removing my three wisdom teeth also. We made the choice to have them removed at the same time cuz 1)I only want to be sedated once thank you 2)the dr thinks if I did it separate(cuz they need to come out sometime) that it could re-hurt the TMJ which wouldn't be a good thing. I also have to have some jaw therapy not sure how long I don't think it would be much?! At the moment even though I know I need it I'm really nervous about it.

First Fish

N caught his first fish today! He had a few bits on the line, but none that caught then it happened N got his first fish. Daddy couldn't get it off the line right away(which I was thankful, just so I could go get the camera) so while Grandpa was getting pliers I ran in the house to grab the camera, daddy put the fish back in the water so it wouldn't die till we got there. N was SUPER SUPER excited!

Pulling it out of the water(the second time)

A better picture of the fish

Daddy holding it up for N

N did try to hold it, but the fish had little spikes and got him so he let go before I got the picture.