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!

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!!

Day 25 ~ Your day, in great detail

A day where I work or a day off...? No two days are the same around here Haha

Days when I work are more interesting because of where I work :)

Usually....
Holly will wake me up sometime between 5am-7am cause she wants to nurse. Around 7:30 I pull myself and Holly out of bed and get dressed. I make sure that Faith and Megan are dressed. If they have school I make sure that Faith has had breakfast (Megan gets breakfast at school, but we usually let her have a little something) and then I let Steve put them on their perspective buses. Holly and I head to the daycare. The day there consists of interacting with the kids there, while dealing with and feeding Holly as well (she nurses twice while there). We have morning 'recess' and circle and craft time, then a bit of free play time while Miss Sara preps lunch. Everybody eats lunch, we read a few books and then nap time (too bad I don't get to take one, I usually need it by then). Putting multiple kids to sleep at the same time is interesting! Once everyone wakes up we have snack and head outside again. This is usually the point where I have to leave to get Faith off the bus. Once we are all home, it's about time for Holly to nurse again, then (ideally) I fix dinner and let Holly have some 'solid' food. After dinner Faith and Megan get ready for bed, I get Holly ready for bed and nurse her.... all three are (on a good night) in bed by 8-8:15 for the night. Steve leaves for work about 8:30-8:45 :( (Anyone have/know of a daytime job you want to give him?) and I try (don't always succeed) to get a bit of 'housework' done... dishes or a load of laundry, have a bit of computer/internet or TV time. I then hope to get a bit of sleep before Holly wants her 'midnight' feeding. Steve gets home around 5:45, gets a few hours of shuteye... and it all starts again...

tired...? ya me too!

Day 24 ~ Where I live

Ok... I've had a long day ...and I'm tired, ...so I am going to be lazy tonight :) You get a picture of our house! We live in the town of Duncansville in the state of Pennsylvania (for now anyway) in the United states of America!

It's a greyish purple (the house behind is no longer there)
and we are sporting an Arizona flag off the front porch for the time being.

Day 23 ~ A YouTube video

We have SO many various videos on our computer that we have gotten from YouTube, that it was hard to even decide where to go with today's topic. I got to thinking about what our favorites were... and when Steve is looking at videos the girls almost always ask for one in particular... The Pixar short "For the Birds" it is so cute... but due to copyright ...whatever... the original can't be put on YouTube (and I don't like what most people have done with it)... so you get the one that the girls ask for in conjunction with "For the Birds"

This is one of Faith and Megan's favorites!

....and this is the short that is before the new Toy Story 3. I think this is one of my new favorite Pixar shorts! (this sound is a bit off from the picture... and there are a few bits cut out, but it's still good!)