Merry Christmas!

We had such a wonderful Christmas this year. First off, it was really great to have all of my decorations. It is amazing how happy I felt to have them around. I love to have my house all decorated and such during Christmas...because it is my sanctuary. My retreat from all the hustle and bustle of the world, and I can just have peace and relaxation. Christmas morning was fun. The girls were so excited about everything that was going on. It was great to see their faces. Kierstin was a little oblivious, but still cute! Teniah was thrilled with the hat from Grandma and Grandpa. We were able to talk to my brother...who had just flown into Indonesia the day before. It was so great to hear from him...that helped to make it a great Christmas.

"Santa Takes a Nap"

Teniah's Kindergarten class put on a little play for the parents right before school let out for the break. She was so excited to be a sugar plum fairy.

She kept telling me all the dance moves that she had to learn. It was such a cute little play. Basically each kid had their moment in the spotlight, and did a little dance. They all sang a couple of songs and then it was over. Santa was there, and let all the little kids sit on his lap. I took that opportunity to get a picture of the girls with Santa.

So cute!!

Ummm....

I'm sure that you were all wondering why I haven't posted much this past month. You all know...or least I think you do...that I work 'with UPS'. That should be enough said, but I'll go into just a little more detail so that you can fully understand why my holiday season doesn't officially start until December 23rd.
The rush basically starts after Thanksgiving, but the worst week is the week before Christmas. That week we send out around 200 packages per day (except for Monday which is about 500), help over 200 customers, and work about 10 hours per day (least I did). So needless to say by the time that I got home at night, I was very tired and worn out. And not that blogging takes that much effort, I just wanted to veg! It is stressful and draining. Plus everything that needs to get done aka housework, shopping etc., just never seems to get done on time! Robert is good to help out with the housework, but I think that he does it mostly because he doesn't like the mess! :0) I was able to venture to Walmart to do ALL of my Christmas shopping. I went early in the morning, less people. I spent about an hour getting groceries and gifts, then about another 30 checking out...I thought that was pretty good, considering that I hadn't been grocery shopping in about two/three weeks...and hadn't gotten ANY Christmas yet. hehe...there it's out, I am a Christmas shopping slacker!
But the rush is over now, the family has come and gone(and boy did we have fun!) and Teniah is back in school. So I figured it was about time to start updating the blog. :0)
So little by little....here is the holidays!

Christmas Decorations!

Last Christmas we hardly had any Christmas decor, so this year, we went all out! We had so much fun pulling out all of our decorations and putting them up all over our little apartment! Teniah is THRILLED at the fact that she was able to decorate her own little tree that is now sitting right beside her bed. Robert and I both were so excited to have our Christmas village. It has been two Christmas' without it, and it is so much fun to have out! ( I will post more pictures of the rest of the decor soon!)

Kierstin was a good little helper...well mostly...but look at that face! :0)

Happy Thanksgiving!!

We were able to go to Sarah and Devin's this year for Thanksgiving. It was so much fun to be with family for the holidays! We had so much fun getting all the food ready, played Risk (well I did, for a while, til I got killed off!), watched movies and finally fell asleep! Yummy food and family...good mix!I am able to say that I am the first of Little Cooper's Aunties to see him! He is quite the little doll! He is such a good little guy! He was wide awake most of the evening too, cute cute!

Daddy's Little Girl!

I walked into the girl's room the other day to find Kierstin doing this....

No one can say she isn't Robert's!!!

Just a little behind the times!

I got a lovely post from my brother in law...reminding me that Halloween was a while ago, and that he was sure that I had something new to talk about! hehe

I am waiting to get my pictures on my computer. You would think that wouldn't be such a hard feat, but somedays! hehe

Anyways...I am hoping to have everything uploaded soon! Give you a few pictures of Thanksgiving, just in time for Christmas! hehe