January Updates

I think in my last post I mentioned we were going to paint our basement. We spent the first three days of our two weeks off painting. While we still have too much stuff, the rooms look fresh and clean again. Luckily we got our project finished right before I got layed up with my pneumonia. If we had waited we probably wouldn't have been able to do the project over the holiday break at all! I am thrilled to have the project complete!!

Sledding Fun!!

Hello Everyone,

It has been awhile since my last post, so I better get caught up. I was laughing as I read my last post. I was having a very productive day and out of the blue decided to back up 90% of the content on my 4 month old laptop. I will never be sure why I decided to do the back up instead of the long list of other Christmas things that were on my list....but it turn out to be one of my better decisions. Four days later my computer starting acting slow and not functioning properly. I discovered that my Internal Hard Drive was going bad fast, so fast I wasn't able to back up the few things that I hadn't done 4 days previously. And as annoyed as I am that my laptop is still in Texas being repaired......I am so relieved that I didn't lose all my content. I store a ton of photos and digital scrapbooking stuff....not to mention all the other stuff I try to keep track of and organized in my life. So that day of organizing turned out to be such a huge blessing. I also realized how spoiled I had become by being able to use my laptop up in the kitchen where I spend most of my time. Now that I have to use the desktop in our basement I just don't make the effort as much. Thus you haven't seen a post in a month. Not to mention we had a couple of holidays in there and I also had a wicked bout with pneumonia over Christmas as well.

This last week I am finally feeling more my normal self and my energy level is returning to normal. It was nice to have the kids go back to school and get back into our routine. My parents were able to come for Christmas. They weren't able to get here until the evening of Christmas Day due to the weather but we were glad they were able to make it. Ryan and Lisa tried to come and join us on the 26th but after two hours they had to turn around and go home due to icy road conditions. Luckily they were able to join us for a few days the following week.

At present we are enjoying a snowy weekend at home. We got about 10 inches over the weekend. This morning Gary and I were able to take the kids sledding. Everyone had a great time. At least once we got there, getting 3 kids ready to go out in the snow isn't that much fun!!

We have also been finalizing our plans for a trip to Disney World in a couple of weeks. My parents have graciously invited us to join them at their timeshare condo in Orlando for a week in January. So we are looking forward to a week in the warmer weather and doing all the theme park stuff! Since last fall when Kyle was still giving me a hard time about being completely potty trained for preschool. I told him even if he didn't want to go to preschool he still had to be potty trained to go to Mickey's house. The other day Kyle told me that he was going to tell Mickey that he was putting all his wee and poo in the potty just so he could come give him a big hug. We will see if he has enough guts to actually give Mickey that big hug! And it did work he doesn't have accidents too often these days!! Kyle was 11 months old the last time we went so he has no memories of the trip at all. This time I think they are all at ages where it will be magical for each of them.

I will post some pictures from Christmas and sledding. Enjoy!! And Happy 2009!!!