What we got for Christmas!

 

 

Lillian got demon eye.

 

This is from Meagan (Aunt Shanon) and I love it!

 

Lillian got these slippers and she loved them!

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Opening stakings!

Santa brought Will this truck and he has been sleeping with it since.

 

Dad thought it would be a great idea to buy the kids dart guns... I didn't know this was the plan...

 

Grandma and Grandpa and all the grandkids! Can you blelieve that they were all awake and looked at the camera!?

 

 

Will loves skid loaders. He probably would have been happier with the real thing but this works. :)

 

 

THIS was a priceless reaction when he opened this. I wish I had gotten it on video but the picture is great.

 

 

I realized I don't have many pictures of Lillian! I also realized over Christmas that I HATE candy canes... ...

 

We got a bunch more but I won't bore you any longer! Hope you have a fantastic New Year!!!!

Because you've asked...

This guy is spraying the insulation. They almost got it all done. There is the ceiling on one side of the house and the basement wall but otherwise it's pretty much done.



Amongst our mud pit, you can see the siding!!!! How exciting is that! I can't wait until it's up to the roof to really show it all. This is about as much as they got done today but I wasn't expecting any of this for a while so I get to smile every time I come home.

Resolutions!

Every year, almost everyone makes New Year Resolutions. How long do they last? Not long, that's for sure. A co-worker/ fellow blogger makes monthly goals and gave me the idea to do this this year. So I guess that's my new years resolution? For January, my monthly goals will be, no junk food, no excesses spending, 15 minutes of cleaning a day and a little something for my marriage, a hug and kiss every day.

 

The no junk food for me is narrowed down to sweets. I'm not a fan of potato chips or any of the salty stuff. My guilty pleasure is all sugar! Now I have very few exceptions for this, fiber one bars and protein bars will be my exception. If I go all out, only the macros needed, protein, carbs and fats, I'll last 2 weeks before I fall off hard and go crazy on the sugar. So if I allow myself the 'junk' that is in fiber one bars I feel like I'm still getting the junk I crave but yet not getting all the horrible, horrible, sugar.

 

No excesses spending. Mostly, this involves groceries for me. I'm a food hoarder I swear. Not even that much junk food, just food. So this will be only the foods that we NEED. This may be the hardest goal as we ARE building a house and will need things for that. On top of that, my children's birthdays are coming up and I will be planning the party along with gifts for them. (One gift will be new bedding for the both of them! 2 birds with 1 stone?)

 

15 minutes of cleaning every day. Sounds easy but for some reason, it just doesn't happen and then I feel swamped on my days off. I'm not sure if this will include the typical dishes that need to be done every day anyway. Is that cheating?

 

Lastly, a hug and kiss from my favorite man every day. Okay, second favorite man? Will trumps Dennis any day. With my work schedule and as much as Dennis works, there are several days we see each other in passing only. No, we are not in any kind of slump but being as we are approaching the 'seven year itch' and building a house, why not make sure that we are making time to connect every day.

 

These are small yet huge goals for January. Some I may continue on the next month but I'm hoping that all just become a habit and I don't have to put them down for February. Once I see myself sliding some then they will be put back on the goal list. I have printed off a tracker and I'm going to tape it on my dresser next to my bed. Every night before I close my eyes, I'll mark whether I have achieved that goal for the day or not.

What are your goals for the new year? Will you do monthly goals or will you do a new year resolution? Have you ever stuck with a goal for the entire year?

Gingerbread house and cake baking!

This little guy, LOVES helping Mom bake. This is his gingerbread house... it was standing but the candy on the counter needed eating so as he got up on the counter to get it, he knocked it over and so it was then a flat top gingerbread house!



She just loves junk food.



Isn't it so pretty!?




"I wasn't eating it!" if she would talk...



Last night I was baking a cake for work and he thought he'd help. I quote "Mom take a picture of me doing this!"... okay.

No more sledding in the house!

Windows and doors are in... I forgot to take a picture of the garage but even the garage doors are in.



Getting electrical all put in!



All you can see are all the blue boxes but there's a lot of wire too.

SNOW!

All bundled up and ready to head out!

 

Nothing is more beautiful than freshly fallen, smooth white powder. I know, I've been told I'm a freak because I love winter!

 

 

 

Attempting to build a snowman but it was just too much powder... Maybe tomorrow!


Dad joined in!



And thought it'd be fun to sled in the new house! Windows are here, just not in yet...



Such a good big brother!!



I've never seen it before, but a little Hadley in her? Or Lillian in Hadley? Family, you know what I mean...



SNOW ICE CREAM!!!!



And, I just thought this was funny...



I know the house is a mess, sorry, I'm working nights and NOTHING gets done when I'm on nights!

The new stuff

The house is wrapped.



The siding is here!





The windows are here!!

And then this guy, made the next little monkey pretty happy!





Because he LOVES powdered doughnuts!



So does she!



And these are what the first few doughnuts looked like. Elfie is so nice to make snowmen for Will and Lillian. (Okay, only Will. Lillian was not happy about that either.)

This scared the poo out of me!

Do you see it?? Dennis has a helper shingling... or as he calls it a new 'shingle b*tch'



See it?



Oh, now you do? Would that not scare the poo out of you if that was your 3 1/2 year old!?!?


LOTS of prayers were sent to the Good Lord up stairs!