Thursday, December 31, 2009

Happy New Year!!!



Seriously, It blows my mind how fast the year has gone by! I'm so so excited about this new 2010 year, fresh slate sorta~

Not sure about all of you, but I have many, many, many resolutions this year..some of which are old resolutions I never fulfilled last year..hehe. But my 2 most important resolutions this year are just that, the most important!

~*~I vow to be a better mom & not sweat the small stuff, I need to relax a bit and have more fun with my kids. (I think this is a feeling most moms get, or atleast the ones I talk too)

~*~I am making it a point, to NOT make it a point to lose weight (maybe then I'll lose weight :)~

I wish you all a New Year with much Love, Joy, Laughter, Friends, Family, Health & Wealth.

PS...Oh and JOBS!!!


Wednesday, December 30, 2009

The girls' new hobby

The girls have been extremely bored these past 2 days and decided that they would learn to sew with the new sewing machine my grandma gave them, afterall, what else do you do when everyone else in the house is under the weather. Look at these cute things they made in literally 1 hour. They purchased all their own fabric, ribbons & thread...pretty neat huh? Now they want to make pajama pants next~ too cute!!! ( I take NO credit in teaching them how to use the sewing machine, they did it all themselves!) Way to go girls!!!





Sunday, December 27, 2009

My Family...

My entire family (minus a few) were at my home for christmas this year. It has been a long time since we were all together, but we had a BLAST!! My family & Ty's family really hit it off and had a wonderful time together. It was a great night spent at the Bon Fire!

Below:
My cousin Emma, Me & my Nana (grandmother)


Below:
The Morgan Family~ Ty's Parents to the right and this is all their kids & their grandkids. (Plus Aunt Liz is in there too, kris's sister)


Below:
Emma, Me & Nana having fun at the fire (maybe a little too much)


Below:
Emma, Our Tata (grandpa) and me. I love this man, he's the best!!


Below:
Me & Emma with Nana & Tata...aren't they soo cute!




Sunday, December 20, 2009

New Pictures of the Kids

Now these are more appealing to me :) Enjoy!








Saturday, December 19, 2009

Get that sickness outta here!

OH NO!! We can't POSSIBLY have sick kids right around the corner from Christmas! Of all the times for my kids to get sick, they get sick when I'm about to fill my house with 25 people for the holidays! Tyler was throwing up all day friday, Alexa is now developing a terrible cold and kyla's cold seems to be coming back! I'm crossing my fingers for no more pukers! I still can't get that icky smell out of tylers mattress~eww!

Wednesday, December 16, 2009

Gearing up for christmas

Well, I don't quite know where to start. We decided to have our good friend Jana over with her 2 boys to have a whole baking day, which went wonderful by the way! I always love to spend time with her and her family! The plan was that the following morning, we would all head over to the mall and take a family picture. WELL....

The pictures turned out less then perfect for what I expected. For starters, it was a chore to get my kids out the door that morning, the rain was coming down like a geyser and it's the first family picture that none of my kids were color coordinated! It's the little things like these, that drive me bonkers!! All morning everyone was fighting and the house was absolutely CHAOTIC! Alexa REFUSED to wear something decent, along with ripping out her hair during one of her fits that I spent 20 minutes curling. Tyler would not take off that Jacket, kyla would NOT let me do her hair to save her life (and what the heck is up with the leg being up??? Seriously!) Paige was slouching in one picture to the point she looks completly bored out of her mind! Ty was dying from the heat of the fireplace, which at one point he was completely red (more then normal folks) and sweat started pouring from his forehead!! LOL. Did I mention I felt like the size of a house? Yes, I have gained some weight these past few months, but BOY O BOY does it show in a picture!! As much as I would love to just erase and re-record, I must still share this picture as a memory of where our family is today.

I always look back at our family pictures over the years and I'm totally saddened at how fast the time has passed by and how grown up my kids are getting. I'm not so sure what was going on in the Morgan household on this particular picture day to have it be such a hectic mess, but one thing is for certain, I will look back on this picture one day and miss being in that spot on that day!
I love those little stinkers more then they will ever know!!!


Alexa decorating her cookies

Tah Dah! I think most of these are baby haydens but some are the twins'

My sweet little bugger! (you should have SEEN how many sprinkles they went through..lol)


Mama and Lexa



OK...so here it is...the dreaded pictures!







Merry Christmas everyone!!!



Tuesday, December 8, 2009

First Snow of the season

Yep so it is...the first snow of the season for us up here in the beautiful pines of PV. I woke up this morning to the wonderful views of snow out my back window. It was all grand and great, until I had to drive in it. There was about a 20 car mess trying to get out of our community, cars in the ditch, stuck in the median and jack-knifed. It was so scary. It took me 3 times to get out of my community and all three times I was just about sick to my stomach at the thought of the inevidable. I love the snow...just not driving in it. I have love for all you minnesota, washington and illinois snow drivers!!! For the record; this is the WORST snow I have seen here (ice wise) since we have lived here in over 3 years.

Below you see bo in the last picture...he was acting like a crazy man out there in the snow~too bad he hurt himself so bad that this evening he can barely walk...my poor bubbers! He LOVED it though..he was racing around the back yard like a maniac at 5 am in the morning...lol.








Sunday, December 6, 2009

Let the constructing begin


Ty has officially started to re-do my old schwinn bicycle that I used to ride when I was a kid. With the help of his brother, they have taken the bike completely apart. They are going to sand it, paint it and make it all brand new for Alexa for Christmas.

For those who don't know about this bike, I'll share with you the story of how it came into my life. When I was 8 years old my grandfather bought me this bike for my birthday, I remember it well...with its old blue scratched up paint, white glitter banana seat and the big white basket on the front. I thought I was lance armstrong on this bike let me tell ya, I thought I was hot stuff!

Then around the age of, um, lets say 12...I hated this bike, with a passion! It was too old school for me..I wanted a BMX, but NOPE! My tata was a man who wasted nothing, if that bike had 2 wheels and would still pedal around then it was good enough for me. According to him, that was a "perfectly good bike"!! So what did I do you ask? What a typical spoiled brat would do, I REFUSED to ride it. Instead, I took up rollersating to get around. (which I ended up breaking my arm at his house, see he should have listened to my requests in the 1st place)

The bike was then passed on to my poor little cousin. She too, hated that bike. In the same fashion, tata told her the same thing he told me : "thats a perfectly good bike!". She even recently told me she had tried abandon the bike in the wash near their house in the hopes of maybe getting a new bike...but those hopes were squashed when a local neighbor walking in the wash noticed a bike that he had seen one too many of my tata's grandkids riding on and doing the "good neighbor' thing they do...he brought the bike back to my tata's house. Needless to say, my cousin was furious that this bike had been recovered...but tata was THRILLED!

So about 5 years ago, my tata gave me my bike back so my kids could ride it. At first I was horrified to see that same old, dingy bike arrive back at my door. It has since become a family heirloom, and it has touched me that my tata has kept it for all these years and never tossed it out. It has many memories of my childhood, as I'm sure many memories for him as he remembers all his grandkids riding this bike. (and now we're all grown up) If you can beleive it, my kids LOVE this bike! So we thought it would be a great idea to take this perfectly good, solid constructed bike and fix it up since it is afterall, a classic. And a classic in my family.

My tata doesn't know our plans of fixing up the bike & this year he will be spending christmas with us...I can't wait to surprise him and alexa with a brand new shiny pink schwinn. (Shhh..don't tell mom) OH, and the funnier thing is my cousin who ditched this same bike will be here too..LOL. I'll post pictures once it's done.





Saturday, December 5, 2009

Lexa's new haircut

Alexa badly wanted another 'short do' and since I know what she will do if we don't comply with her hair requests, we cut her hair today. I am not the mom who really likes my girls to cut their hair short, but she is very able to wear a short haircut and rock it! She looks so cute!!! 1 down, 3 to go before christmas.