Winter

Shoveling snow in 11 degree weather.  I had to do that a couple of days ago and all I have to say is I can't wait another second for Spring!  Well I guess I have to wait I don't have a choice.  But I thought I would go on record saying that WINTER IS MY LEAST FAVORITE SEASON.  Hmmm, I take that back..I like it up until Christmas is over and then I am done with it!!

Last Wednesday it snowed 5''.  Bailey woke up and immediately wanted to go outside and build a snowman.  I thought that sounded like a good idea.  What could be more fun than building a snowman with my sweet little girl, my husband, and my puppy dog.  So after 30 minutes of finding our snow gear and getting it all put on we all went outside.  First, Matt couldn't find his gloves so couldnt help with snow man {actually snow woman, we were totally ready to deck her out with tiara and all}.  Second, snow was too fluffy which made it impossible for me to make our snow lady.  Third, 2 year old screaming because it was too stinkin cold and her gloves kept coming off.  SO, we were outside for seriously 10 minutes.  30 minutes of getting ready to be outside for 10 minutes.  But we did get some get some fun pictures of our snow puppy:

Pretty fast for an 8 year old huh?  And he does have back legs..I just realized this pic makes him look like a 2 legged dog:)

He LOVES the snow.  But even after running around for a minute he was begging to go inside.

Someone also got upset because her Dora bike wouldn't go anywhere.  I tried to tell her.

Oh and one more reason to dislike winter.  My car looks like this:

So now for a few reasons Winter isn't so bad. Starbucks tastes better in the Winter.  I love skinny vanilla lattes from Starbucks and in the winter I really love them because they make you feel just a little warmer.  But now thanks to my mom I don't even need to leave my house..I can make one a home:)

With this guy I can make lattes, cappucino, tea, and coffee.  I LOVE IT!!!!!!  If you love chai tea lattes this machine can make a better chai tea latte than starbucks(in my opinion), not kidding.  Thanks to this machine I have definitely cut back on drinking Diet Coke but it has been replaced with coffee and lattes:)

Another "new" thing I love about Winter is I get to wear this:

A present from my husband..not just any NorthFace fleece but I think its called the "Osito"??  It is the softest fleece I have ever owned inside and out and I am living in it for the rest of the winter.

One more reason I love the winter:

More time just hanging out inside and playing school, grocery store, restaurant or whatever else pretend game she can come up with:)

Hope everyone is staying warm and enjoying the New Year!

My New Years Resolution

Drink less of this:

and more of this:

At least 6 glasses a day.  I know they say 8 a day but I am just shooting for 6.  I could seriously go a week without drinking water..isn't that awful!? I love coffee, tea, and diet soda..

So I'm going to try to kick the new year off being a little healthier.

Wish me luck at the movies today...I'm really going to MISS my big diet coke fountain soda.

Bailey's Bed

As many of you know, last week we took on potty training and for the most part we were successful:)  We have a few accidents here and there but thats ok..

Our next step is the big girl bed which I have been putting off.  I have been putting it off because I can't decide what to do with Bailey's room.  We purchased the bed MONTHS ago..

First thought, maybe I was crazy buying a black bed for a 2 year old little girls room?  I love it but if you look at pictures in any catalog everyone always has white furniture for little girls.  I just loved the bed and I thought it would be different so hopefully when it goes in her room I will still love it.  I also love the bedding in the picture above (red and white) but try finding red and white bedding anywhere for little girls!!  Its impossible!!!  Unless you make it yourself you can't find it.  Wait I take that back I did find one set that I loved but did not love the over $500 price tag..

So here are my choices..

Choice #1.(Pottery Barn Kids) Everything except the canopy and remember going on a black bed not white..

Choice #2. (Pottery Barn Kids)

What do you think??  I can't decide, I need help!

Christmas!!!

It has been a crazy couple of weeks, as I'm sure it has been for everyone!  Here are some pictures from our week in no particular order..

Bailey and Matt at Breakfast with Santa..this is Bailey's face when Santa walked in..

This is Bailey hugging her Daddy so he would protect her from Santa:)

Bailey at Katie's Christmas party hugging Kiki and Tibby

Opening presents Christmas morning

On Santa's lap at Katie's party {this was her 4th Santa so by now she has realized he's not so scary}

In her new Princess Jeep

Bouncehouse from Gigi and Gdad...

Christmas morning with Grammy Sue and Grampy

Christmas Eve with Grammy and cousins Brooke and Ash

Not sure what shes doing here.

Katie's Christmas party

Bailey and I at Breakfast with Santa

Bailey and Grammy Kim

Hope everyone had a very Merry Christmas!!!!

Santa Video

http://portablenorthpole.tv/watch/3e205b1cb6e5a3706bc0f4ddd4a94956

Check out the above link for a video that Santa sent Bailey!  You can make your own at http://www.portablenorthpole.tv/

Weekend

This past weekend wasn't too eventful but we did do a few fun things..
Friday night my mom watched Bailey so Matt and I could go see The Blind Side.  If you haven't seen it, you should!  It was SO good.

Saturday morning wasn't quite as much fun because we had to be in the car by 6:30am to go and get Bailey her second H1N1 shot.  Good news is that Matt and I were able to get one to and we were able to get this nasal mist that they just shoot up your nose..poor Bailey had to get the regular old shot..

After that we started working on our Christmas decorations.. we had already put up the tree..  I love our tree...it is artificial and I know some people don't like the artificial ones but I LOVE it..no cleaning up pine needles:)

We also put up Baileys tree..

We went to Michaels and bought a little snowman for our front porch..

This is just a picture of the box.  I had to take it because the actual snowman doesn't even come up to my waist and in this picture on the box he is the size of a house...

Fletcher enjoyed decorating too

Then later that night we went to church where of course we are talking about Christmas and Bailey is learning about it as well.. which is kind of hard for a 2 year old I guess b/c walking out of church she was talking about baby Jesus and his bday and how she wants to get him a car seat and how she wants to hold him...hmmmm.

Sunday I went shopping with my mom and got some lunch.  This was our view

I know its gross.  He usually doesn't do that..McCalisters must smell REALLY good.

Then later that night B was pumped because there was a Dora Christmas movie on.  She was zoned out for pretty much the entire hour like this

In case you dont know who Dora, Boots, and Swiper are they are Bailey's heros..  and she is not to be disturbed when they are on:)

Hope everyone had a great weekend!

Advent Conspiracy

The church that Matt and I go to is one of the churches that started 
this movement..I was noticing on other
peoples blogs from all over the country that they are getting involved with this 
as well.. it is such a great cause and amazing if you really think 
about how much
it would actually cost for everyone to 
have clean water vs. how much we spend on Christmas..its crazy!! 
And its amazing how something like this can just start out
with a few people and then grow and grow 
and really begin to change people's lives all over the world.. 
so check out the link above!