Friday, December 31, 2010

A few blessings from 2010 and some hopes for 2011

It's been a strange year, 2010, dealing with a newborn/ now one year old and her big sisters; and realizing late in the year that I am dealing with a bit of PPD. SO a few blessings from this year are in order!
* I have three beautiful growing little girls
*Faith turned 6, Megan turned 5, and Holly had her first birthday this year
*I have a wonderful husband that is way too good for me!
*Though it was for a sad event, we got to see some family in April
*Grandmum came to visit!!
* Grandpa came to visit too (the girl's birthdays and for a ball game in the summer and Christmas)
*Faith donated 10 inches of hair to Locks of Love, and still has long hair!
*Faith and Megan are doing exceptionally well in school!
*We got a Wii for Steve's and my birthdays (having loads of fun on it :) )
*The girls started some extra curricular activities.... Girl Scouts (well, Megan isn't officially one, but the leaders are letting her tag along, it's great) and Faith was in a community chorus for their Christmas concert
*That wonderful hubby (with some help from some other people) gave me a deep freezer fo Christmas!! Woo hoo!!
*THIS picture was taken for me... as soon as I get the money saved up I am going to buy the jpeg of it :)
*I got a job that I L.O.V.E - A home daycare run by a friend I met at MOPS. This is what I went to school for and as an added bonus I can take Holly and Megan's preschool bus will drop her off there too. I couldn't ask for much better. Unfortunately "Miss Sara" can only have a max of 14 kiddos at one time, so me bringing in two of my own limits the amount of time I can be there. There have been days that I am there until Megan gets there cause she makes child #15.

I'm not a big "New Years Resolutions" kind of person. Some years I just can't think of anything I want to change that I'm not already working on (it's not a new resolution if you are already working on it) and other years I don't want to be disappointed come Feb when whatever it was hasn't happened. So I am not doing resolutions, but am going to mention a couple things I hope to do in 2011:
*A picture of one of the kiddos every day for the year. I've seen this done on a lot of other blogs and have thought 'I might be able to do that!' Not sure if I should do just Holly (being as how she is the one growing so quickly at the moment) with brief cameos from the older two, or if I should do all three (which would be a lot of work)... maybe what I'll do is get Holly on a daily basis and get the older two in one picture at least once a week. (Maybe this will provide something for my Friday Fotos more often)
*Freezer cooking - I've seen and heard good things about making meals ahead of time, freezing them and then having dinner basically ready for a couple of days during the week (having a deep freezer is GREAT for this!)
*I thought I had one more, but am experiencing a bit of mommy brain at the moment... if I remember I'll be sure to put in on here.

Here's to a blessed 2011!

Monday, December 6, 2010

A bit of a long-overdue update and some pictures for Grandmum

I haven't updated in a very long time... no excuses, I've been lazy :)

So since August... a lot has happened!

Late August:
*Faith decided she needed a haircut and decided to donate what we cut off to Locks of Love (Megan wants to donate her hair too)

before.......................... and after...

* School started for Faith (first grade!) and for Megan (preschool- second year)



September:
* Grandmum visited!!


* For Steve's and Christina's birthdays our family got a Wii


* Faith broke her toe and had to be on crutches for two weeks


October
* We went to the pumpkin festival and the girls got their faces painted


* The girls' Girl Scout troupe went to the fire station


* We had a birthday with some presents


* We went Trunk-or-treating


* Megan had a birthday party (with a Tinkerbell theme)

cake (made of cupcakes)


musical chairs



pin the wings on Tinkerbell

November
* The girls' Girl Scout troupe was in the Hollidaysburg Christmas parade, everyone 'dressed' as Christmas boxes (well, Megan was a gift bag)


December
* Faith was in the Hollidaysburg Alumni Community Chorus' Christmas Concert

she is all the way over to the left in the front

OK... Grandmum, her are the other two (plus the one of Faith on her crutches) pictures I was trying to send...


~~I think that is all for today... tomorrow is Holly's birthday! I cannot believe that she is already one, this year has just flown by!!