Christmas Pictures

My Christmas Cuties! I promised some Christmas photos and here they are. Ainsley's favorite safety glasses of all things and Dino Aidan. This is still such a busy holiday since I have yet to clean up all the mess. The kitchen is clean and that is about it. I will catch up eventually I guess. We may actually have plans this New Year's Eve too. Miss J from church called earlier to see what our plans were and if we wanted to get together and make it an early evening since we both have small kiddos. Sounds like fun to me. I will let you know how it goes later. So I am off!

Parents Left

My parents went back to Texas yesterday and I am left here to deal with the after Christmas clean-up. Their visits are always so short, which is I guess why I enjoy it when they come up. I wish my Mom would retire so that they could stay longer on a visit. I will deal with some of the Christmas photos this afternoon and get something posted tomorrow. The kids had a great time and the adults did as well I think. We are very blessed with generous family and friends. SO sad today.

Parents are coming!

My parents are coming today and I am completely stressed. My hubby is taking Aidan to school and Ainsley and I will be headed to Milwaukee as soon as I change her diaper. The grocery store was a madhouse today so next time I know that I need to leave earlier! Happy holidays everyone.

Christmas Concert

Aidan's preschool class had their concert yesterday. Aren't they cuties! Their teachers worked so hard to get everything organized.

Well I finally did it

I finally sucked it up and scheduled my thyroid surgery. I guess I can still chicken out if I want to, but for now it is scheduled for January 16. My pre-op work is schduled for the 9th. I hope this will be minor and nothing that requires more than what I am doing. This surgery will be invasive enough as it is.

I spent the morning cleaining up and doing laundry. Aidan has his Christmas concert this afternoon and if I get some decent pictures I will post. He was so excited. I also made a dent in some of my Christmas wrapping. My parents will be here Friday...should be fun!

Ainsley's ears...

are finally better! After 3 days of anitbiotic injections and waiting 2 weeks for the results she is finally infection free. What an awesome Christmas gift!

My Christmas cuties!

Library fun

I did get the kids out in this cold and go to the library today. It was really nice. My friend came with her kiddos and A and A had a great time playing with them. Yeah!

I took about a dozen snapshots of the kids this morning to potentially use as a Christmas card photo. I will post one tomorrow if they turn out.

B comes home today

B comes home today and I am so thrilled. I have so much to do and I feel like I have so little time to get things done. I need to get started on Christmas cards. I am almost completely done with holiday shopping. I have 2 more gifts to purchase, otherwise I am just waiting of everything to arrive so that it can be packaged for further shipping or wrapped and set under the tree here. I also wanted to do some baking for us and for B's people at work. I need to make something that makes a lot though otherwise it will never get past the staff and get to the hourly employees.

Yesterday we had our women's bible study holiday luncheon. I had a blast! Some of those ladies are such a hoot. I signed up for the spring bible study as well, but unfortunately it doesn't start until the end of January. It should be fun. One of the ladies I have been becomeing friends with invited us to dinner and out to the library tomorrow with the kiddos. If the weather isn't horrible I might try to go. Should be fun!

Since the in-laws left

Since my in-laws left I have been so busy. We have also had quite a bit of snow. This weekend was pretty good. We headed to a mall I had not been to before, which ended up being really nice by the way, and did the whole santa thing. THe pictures turned out terrible because Ainsley was in clingy mode so she just cried and they did not give kids a chance to calm down. Aidan did great though and had a good time. Sunday we celebrated my birthday and today Brian left town on a business trip. My parents are worried that our cars are not sufficiently winterized, but we have taken care of everything short of putting snow tires on my car and Brian says people don't really do that up here.

On the Ainsley front, she had 3 days of antibiotic injections to help clear up her still infected ears. We go back on the 14th. Hopefully, they will be better otherwise will be looking at getting tubes put in her ears. SHe is still not sleeping through the night and I am not sure what that is about but it is starting to drive me crazy. I don't know how much longer I can go on being this sleep deprived.