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!!!

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!!!

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!

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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!!


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

New Pictures of the Kids

Now these are more appealing to me :) Enjoy!

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!

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!!!

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.