Happy 2010!!

Just wanted to wish everyone out there a super Happy New Year!! 2010 has a lot in store for us and its going to be AWESOME! :)

We had a Posse get together this year for the first time on NYE. And I think we all agree it was the best start to the new year ever. My goal for you all this year, is to find your own posse wherever you live. Everyone deserves to have friends like these girls.

and to have the goofy husbands that are cheeseballs in the background.
And no New Year's blog post would be complete without some friendship love. 16 years ago this girlie and I met and became fast friends. She has been the best friend a girl could have. And without her I would of never met and joined the fabulous group above. Love you girl (and all of you crazy girlies)!!!

But what I love best is all of the silliness that surrounds us.

Here's to a fabulous new year!

Austin

New Camera!!!!

Santa surprised me and got me a new camera for xmas. I am now the proud owner of the Nikon d90. LOVING IT!! I'll tell you more later after I figure it all out. :)

Christmas photo chaos

So I decided it would be so nice to have a shot of all of the kids in their cute pjs in front of the tree. Well, I will let you see how that turned out.

Coop thought the tree was a fun place to rest

Ella was ready and waiting for the group shot

But she was really ready to open more presents

Beck was sampling the play food

and we are waiting for big sister to make her appearance...

blamo...meltdown

babies made a break for it but coop had to make sure he was still in the shot

So we moved to where the babies were at, and this was the best shot

because after that, this is all I could get.

Maybe I'll have better luck in the morning. :) Now get to bed and sleep soundly, so that Santa can make an appearance. Our cookies, fudge and carrots are ready for the visitors.

Merry Christmas to all and to all a good night!

Merry Christmas Eve to all...

I hope you all have a wonderful day today and tomorrow. Hopefully all of the stress will melt away for you all and you'll be able to truly enjoy the holiday. Take a moment to grab some mental snap shots of the time you are having. You will never get this time back, so find the joy in it all.

We are about to get some snow!! If we can't have a white Christmas I will gladly take a white Christmas eve. :)

Crazy playdate...

that wasn't so crazy after all.

So you would think if you got 17, no I mean 18 kids together ranging in age from 1.2-11 yrs that your house would be filled with chaos, right? Amazingly enough it was quite calm. All of the Posse kids got together with their moms and came over to our house for a Christmas break play date. We never know what to expect and of course we always expect the worse. (because you just never know with kids, right?) We are always astounded that when we do get them together they all behave for the most part and we don't have to do much.

They all started coming over at 10:30 and left around 1:30ish. And I think we were able to sit around the kitchen table and chat the entire time. We all voted that this was the world's easiest play date.

It is really special to find a group of girls that all get along and then have kids and hubbies that get a long as well. I love that our kids get the opportunity to grow up with a big gaggle of kids. This just makes me happy.

I think it may be time to trade my brain in...

or maybe its just time to enjoy some vacation. I have seriously been losing my mind lately.

Two days ago I left the van door open all night long. I had forgotten to shut it when I was ushering the babies and kids inside. So the next morning when B mentions it, I almost didn't remember even going anywhere the night before. Then I thought that maybe someone had tried to break into our van. (it has happened before) So I look around the van to see if anything is amiss. I notice an empty sweet tea bottle that I hadn't noticed before. I ask B if he had left it in the car. He, of course, laughs and said he did. Then he proceeds to come up with a crazy story as to how the thief just decided to sit in our van and drink some tea and then leave. (he has the most creative entertaining mind at times) When I thought about it that way it seemed much more obvious that no one had been in our van, but for a few moments I was sure someone had broken in just to have a place to sit. ;)

Then I realized I had been washing my hair with just conditioner for the last few days. I was really wondering why the new shampoo wasn't lathering up at all. Then I got really smart and actually read the bottle.

Just yesterday I was driving through a parking lot and ran right over an island that was dividing the lot. Totally didn't see it. Luckily I was in B's montero and not the van.

Like seriously, where is my brain. It may have something to do with all of the cold medicine that I have been downing. I am seriously not this loopy normally. I am ready for this cold to be over and done with.