Christmas

I hope that everyone had a nice Christmas. Things were nice around here. The kids were with their Father on Christmas Eve so my parents came to my neck of the woods to have dinner with me and go to church. Then on Christmas morning the kids and I went to my sister's house for lunch. The kids had a fun and busy day. Alex's favorite toy was a small electric train and Abbie's is a baby stroller.

Doria needs a quilt

Abbie got a Doria (Dora the explorer) doll for Christmas. Yesterday morning she was playing with it and another doll and I went to leave the house to run some errands. Apparently the dolls needed a blanket to go to bed and Abbie had appropriated my fleece jacket as a blanket. So, while the kids were out yesterday afternoon I quickly put together a quilt for Abbie's dolls.

The pannels are 4 1/2" x 10 1/2" string pieced units that I have been using as leader/enders, the borders are 2 1/2" black strips from my precut strips drawer and the binding and backing are a cute jungle fabric of H's that I had.

This weekend

The 18th was my mother's birthday so on Saturday the kids and I went up to my parents house for her birthday dinner. On the way home we stopped at Bass Pro Shops so that the kids could visit Santa. Last year it was Alex crying but this year Alex happily saw Santa but Abbie was unhappy. My pictures aren't great but hopefully the one that Bass Pro took will be better. Check out this picture of Alex, he has been having a feeding frenzy (means a growth spurt is comming) lately and now I am really noticing some chages to his face. He looks like such a boy now.

Sunday H, L and I had our annual gift exchange. Fun was had by all and some great gifts were exchanged.

The real story

As many of you might have noticed my posts over the last 6 months have been very sparse. The reason for this is that I have been going thorugh a divorce and other things have been taking priority over posting on my blog. Now the divorce is nearly final and I hope to be able to get back to posting on this blog.

Here are some of the things that have been going on in my life lately:

I started a new full time job in June. This has been an adjustment for the kids and I but I am enjoying the job and my coworkers.

I started going back to church in May and have found this to be a great source of peace and encouragement.

I put my application in for grad school this week and if all goes well I should start next fall.

I will soon be moving into a place of my own. This has been a challenge but I have been lucky to have a very patient real estate agent to help me.

I am sure there are other things that I am leaving out, but these are the things I coud think of right now. I hope you all are having a very happy and safe holidays.

Totally Cute Bow Holder

How's that for a title.

I promise to get back to blogging soon, but in the meantime go check out this giveaway for a totally cute bow holder. Now if I could just get my daughter to leave the bows in her hair!

Haloween

The kids had a great time trick or treating last night. We were able to go over to H's house and hang out and trick or treat with H's family. Alex was Optimus Prime from transformers and Abbie was a yellow duck. Now I am overrun with candy and will probably bring some to work or church to get rid of it. (Sorry for the blurry picture, hopefully H got a better one she can send to me.)

Wow I haven't posted in a while...

Life has gotten in the way. I am working full time and taking care of the kids and the house in the evening and it just doesn't leave much time for anything else.

Last month for Abbie and P's 2nd birthdays (they are 26 hours apart) my friend H and I took the kids to get pictures done. The pictures turned out totally cute and the portrait place even had us sign releases so that they could put the picture up on the wall. (Click here to see how much they've changed)

Abbie is growing up so fast and has turned out to be quite the talker. My favortie Abbieism right now is "Bye Bye shut the door, OK". Abbie it turns out likes a bit of privacy in the bathroom and will not go until you shut and latch the door :)

I got pictures taken for Alex's 4th birthday last weekend and will post them here as soon as they email them to me.