Bad bad blogger

I just went to my blog and saw I haven't posted anything since October!!! What's up with that! The past six months have flown by! I'm back to work full-time, I went to my sister's for Christmas, both Jen and Kris had a baby girl in November and I became a great Auntie again in April to another girl!! I'd say it's been a very good 6 months!

Raeya at Christmas.. she's getting so big!!

        

Claire - above and Ally & Claire - below

Ally above and last but certainly not least, Charlotte aka "Charlie". So many beautiful girls!!

Wow Time Flies!

I can't believe how much time has passed since my last entry! Christmas was great as usual. Sandra, Roy and Luke came until Boxing day and then left.. my first year missing Luke's birthday. They won't be coming for Christmas next year which will be very sad for Luke.. he'll miss the presents but I think and hope, he'll miss the family more. Don't get me wrong.. he'll still get something for Christmas but I for one am not going to waste my money when I don't even get to see the kid open his gifts! And he's starting to get older, gifts aren't that important and he needs to learn that now so he doesn't expect it when he's older.

I'm getting really excited to go on my trip to San Diego with my mom in May. I'm making the plans next weekend. We're going for two weeks and will be going to Disneyland, California Adventure and Universal Studio's. We are going to rent a car for hopefully the whole trip so we'll be able to take mini trips around the San Diego area. I want to get some good shots of the area so that's my motivation as usual.

I'm also planning on a trip to Las Vegas with a friend of mine. I've never been before so I'm really looking forward to that. There are so many free things to do there! And there's lots to with animals so I'm psyched! Plus I recently went into a casino for the first time.. I loved the penny slots!!!

Well I hope everyone is in good health.. till I blog again...

Here are some pictures from Christmas..

Maddie and her new toy

Vern and his new toy Mom and her new hat!


Luke with his Dragonology book and Maddie in her new collar and new blanket gramma made her!
And after years of not having my picture taken.. I finally bit the bullet (so to say) and had a friend of mine take this.. I gave it to everyone at Christmas..

The season of colds!

Well it went around work and now I have it.. a cold.. I never get colds but alas it has hit me.. I missed a day and a bit last week and now came home early today to do paper work in the peace and serenity of my home and laptop. Thank you Lord for Chicken Noodle soup!! mmmmmmmmmm..

My Christmas shopping is done again.. but now I'm doing the adding touches to gifts.. I've bought a little something for all the kids on my caseload and now feel that I need gift bags for them all.. all 33 of them! That's a lot of wrapping and gift bags I must say! But I love Christmas so much and love giving so much more so its so worth it to me! Especially since my gift may be the only thing some of these kids get.. and my gift isn't much in the scheme of things but a lot of love goes with it so hopefully the kids realize that also.

Back to doing my paper work.. Merry Christmas and happy shopping!

Winter Wonderland!

How shocked I was to look out the window this afternoon only to see it was snowing!! We never get snow this early! So I took Maddie out for a walk and she snurfed the snow as we made our way down the road.. it has turned out to be quite the blizzard.. I think there is close to three inches if not more!

Not to rub it in but I am officially finished my Christmas shopping! Now everything else I pick up are bonus gifts! My plan is to start wrapping tomorrow.. I've always wanted to make things look pretty when they are wrapped but I always end up leaving it to the last minute so there are never any pretty ribbons or bows but this year I've gone all out so Martha step aside! I've even taken over as Mrs. Christmas at work.. I have organized everyone to draw names for the secret santa and we are putting up the Christmas tree on December 1st! Hey.. someone has to do it!

Finally the Weekend!

This has been the longest week in the history of weeks! And I only worked three days! There must be a full moon or something.. not to mention the weather being crazy! The power went out which means the elevator doesn't work.. thankfully it was only out until 8:30 but considering I wasn't home when the power went out.. I had to wait for it to come on before I could even get into my home!

I weighed in this morning and gained 2 lbs.. not bad considering I haven't been eating properly for the past two weeks.. way too much fast food! I'm almost finished all of my Christmas shopping.. gotta love online shopping!! There are just a few items that I have to go and pick up and then picking up my online orders when they come in and I'll be finished!! I love Christmas so much!! I love to give people gifts and most of all I love to see my family and friends.. especially my nephews whom I don't get to see very often. Nothing makes me more happy than spending time with them and hearing what is going on in their lives.


Is there anyone else out there who has people in their lives that use them.. you know they are using you yet you still allow it.. I can't stand that.. yet for me, I want their friendship so I put up with it.. like friends who only contact you when they need a place to crash.. it's not even like they stay to visit or anything.. they pass through town, crash for the night and leave asap... then there are others who will call to go for dinner or movies and you know it's only because they can't find anyone else to go with or they are mad at someone else so want to be out when their other friends call.. I can't imagine using someone like that and would never even think about it.. the thing is I don't even think they know they are doing it but I'm scared if I said something they wouldn't care and continue doing it or stop doing it and never see them again..

Cheers to a better week!