Our 4th Christmas together was one of the best yet.
We started the festivities on Friday and have been having fun since.
Jon took this whole week off so we are just having so much fun being together all day.
We weren't very smart with pictures this year, we took about a zillion pictures between my phone, Jon's phone, our camera, and now our (new) camcorder (YAY!)
So I have four devices that I need to get all of our Christmas festivities off of and organized, and I haven't wanted to spend much time on the computer cause I would much rather be hanging with my boys.
So I may not be getting around to posting about the Holiday's till next week.
If I don't, I hope you all have a fabulous New Year's and stay up way to late!
Ok so Jon absolutely hates my favorite breakfast but I love it so I'm still going to share it.
I actually got this idea from Mrs. Pennington in 8th grade.
I loved that lady, she was the best teacher ever.
I had her first period and she was always eating this weird concoction that looked yummy so one day I asked her what the heck it was she was eating, went home and tried it and I've been eating it ever since.
What you will need:
grape nuts cereal
a banana... maybe a more happy looking banana than mine
yogurt of your choice, I've tried different flavors but my favorite is Key Lime Pie
milk
Pour about a cup of grape nuts into bowl, slice banana over cereal, pour yogurt over banana's, add milk and your golden.
The thing I love most about this breakfast is it keeps you full for a long time, so you can make it to lunch without chowing down on other things. And not to mention it's good for you, unlike most breakfast foods and cereals out there.
Saturday I was at the gym doing the elliptical, and watching tv on the small personal screen of the machine, with my headphones plugged into it.
Then this commercial came on that I had never seen before...
Stupid commercial.
I couldn't help it, and I busted out laughing hysterically.
Soon after, I realized that pretty much everyone in the gym was staring at me. No doubt wondering if I had lost my mind... even the people in front of me turned around to stare.
Super.
I felt so stupid, and the best part is I couldn't stop laughing for a good 30 seconds... Even though everyone was gawking at me.
Freaking pregnancy hormones.
They haven't been bad at all till very recently, but all of the sudden I can't control my emotions.
Needless to say when I got done with my workout I booked it out of there trying very hard not to look at anyone directly.
Once I was in the car I decided that at least I was just laughing, and that I hadn't started crying at some absurd thing. That probably would have been a lot more embarrassing.
And whats worse is it's such a stupid commercial, yet every time I see it I can't help from busting up.
What a fun day at the gym.
Thanks pregnancy hormones for making feel like a crazy lady! Till next time.
(well, at least he better still be in their cooking till March)
I can't wait to meet him.
Secondly because it's Jonathan's Birthday on the 27th.
22 years old... What an old fart.
And thirdly because I just finished reading book one of The Hunger Games and the movie is out March 23rd.
And dare I say it I might be even more excited for it then Twilight.
Oh yes I said it.
It's going to be quite the month. I can't wait. Me, my madre, Kale and Londyn headed over to the Dickens Festival today to get a picture with Father Christmas a.k.a Santa Claus. We get a Santa picture every year with Kale and Londy and last years pic didn't turn out so good... Kale was terrified of Santa and was screaming the entire time. So this year I have been amp-ing Santa up, talking about him, telling Kale how nice he is, and that on Christmas morning Santa will bring him presents etc. I was nervous going in to see how Kale would react to him but as soon as he saw Santa he got SO excited and wanted to go see him. He ran straight up to him, hopped on his lap and kept saying "HO HO HO!" Then he'd look at me "MOMMA! It's HO HO!" pointing to Santa. It made my day to say the least.
The other day me and Kale were in the kitchen making cookies.
Kale loves to pour the ingredients in and mix them so it's the one time he is allowed to sit up on the counter.
I had just poured melted butter over sugar and turned to the fridge to get the eggs out.
And then... I hear Kale spit....
I turn around in time to see a big glob of spit fall right into the cookie mixture...
My first reaction was to scream, and to run over to the bowl to try and dig out the spit, but there was no use, I couldn't see it anywhere.
I then said "Kale!! What on the face of the earth were you thinking!"
To which he just looked at me and started laughing hysterically...
When things like this happen my mind always goes back to a skit from Bill Cosby Himself, and I can't help from cracking up, even when I'm fuming mad.
Sometimes I know I look exactly how he says his wife looks.
I don't think there is a mom on the planet who hasn't looked that way at one time or another.
It's funny, when your on the cereal isle at the grocery store and your child has a mental breakdown, other mom's look at you as if to say
"I feel your pain"
And then when the tables are turned and you see another mom or dad trying to do everything humanly possible to get the child to stop having a mental breakdown in the middle of a restaurant, you can't help but think
"thank heavens it's not mine right now"
and then proceed by giving her the look of
"don't worry, I feel your pain"
I love children.
I have seen this movie countless times and each time I still end up with tears in my eyes from laughing so hard.
Here are two more skits from the movie that I couldn't help from sharing.
Best movie ever, if you ever see it, make sure and grab it, you won't regret it.
If you've got one, go give your brain damaged child a big kiss.
P.S. I may or may not have found a small, hard foreign food object in the batter while mixing the cookies, to which I quickly and silently just fished it out... And didn't tell Jon...
I'm pretty certain that everyone who reads my blog has already seen our family photos because I posted them on Facebook, but I wanted to post them on the blog as well.
I am so glad we got these done of just us three before the new baby gets here.
Alicia Arlene did them and she is so extremely talented I love them all so much and am ordering more for her to edit.
I am dying to get some of these printed and put up in my house.
I am so blessed to have these two in my life. They are so amazing and I truly don't know where I would be today without them and the wonderful influences they have had on my life.
There's nothing better then getting to see your little one squirming around in your tummy.
There was one downer though.
The doc told me that I am actually 22 weeks and not 24 like they had thought from the other day.
At least it's not like a month difference right?
But other then that baby boy is completely healthy and everything looks fabulous.
He was being a bit shy, he didn't want us to see his profile so he decided to bend himself in half and hide his face.
Literally.
It's hard to tell in this picture but his head is bottom left with his face pointing upwards, his torso is in the upper left corner then his arm is above his head followed by his foot higher up.
