I'm a Slacker...

So I know I haven't written anything in months, but I figured that I better write something soon or my Grandmom might beat me. There is so much that has happened since my last blog that I really don't know where to begin. I started a blog about Christmas, but never finished it. I started a blog about Christians 3rd birthday, also not done. I started a blog about random things, again, never posted it. Sorry about all my excuses, I will try to keep up w/ this. So I'm going to do a quick recap all the major events since December.

Christmas 2008:

My kids had another great Christmas. I don't know how dear old Santa manages to pull it off year after year, but he (she) always finds a way. Every year we spend Christmas Eve at Scott's sisters house, which is always fun. The kids get to see all of their cousins and they are all so close in age, which is wonderful. Scott's family is always fun to be around! Even I got into the spirit enough to have a few drinks, which is very out of character for me, but it was well deserved.

After all the festivities were done for the evening we went home to play Santa. Silly me thought it would be easy this year. I made sure to have all the gifts wrapped before Christmas Eve, thinking we could toss the kids in bed, throw the presents under the tree and be in bed by 11pm. hahahaha! Wrong. Somehow we still didn't manage to get to bed until 2:30am. I have no idea what went wrong. And on top of that, poor Christian was so anxious about Santa coming that he didn't sleep well at all, so he was like a zombie all Christmas day. The lack of sleep and all the excitement was just so overwhelming for him. (Don't worry though, the day after Christmas he was a complete nutcase to make up for the lack of crazy on Christmas day.)

Both Courtney and Ryan where such angels all day! They loved and appreciated everything, and they always enjoy the family coming over. My family always out-do themselves and it makes Christmas perfect. It wouldn't be Christmas w/out all the fun and chaos that a house full of family brings. Our dinner was great, the time together was great, the gifts were great. Even with a few bumps in the road, I tried to just be grateful for everything, and I was.


Christian Turns 3:

I don't want to talk about it. The end. haha, j/k. So our baby may not be a baby anymore, not something I'm thrilled about. But watching him grow and learn every single day makes up for the lack of baby-ness. He is so smart, and getting smarter every second. (And quite active too, although I'm sure that comes as a shock to most of you! haha.) We had a big party at our house for him. Both our families came, plus a few of our friends and their kids. It was quite a happening lil party, considering it was for a 3 year old. Christian had a blast playing pin the tail on the donkey, musical chairs, and just rough housing w/ all the other kids. He was so funny, for weeks leading up to his birthday he kept telling us that all he wanted was Handy Manny underwear. hahaha. He's so random sometimes, I love it. So we got him his H.M. underwear, a few other things and a bike. He was so excited about the bike. He's gotten really good at riding it too! All the kids are just getting too big. arg.


Our Newest Pet Additions:

Courtney and Ryan both wanted new pets for Christmas, so that's what they got from their Aunt Sandy. Ryan got fish and Courtney got a hamster. Of course Christian was all over them, he's such an animal nut but he's like Lennie from Of Mice and Men. (For those of you who haven't read it, basically he's just a tad too rough with them. haha) Christians fascination w/ them is slowly fading. So being the brilliant parents that we are, we decided to get more animals for Christian to torture. We got a fish tank from Scott's father for downstairs and got some fish. My first few attempts at fish keeping didn't go exactly as i hoped. But I'm a fast learner and now my fish are doing rather well! This last group of fish that we bought included some mollies, which I had later come to learn are live bearers. We woke up one morning and there were teeny tiny little baby fish in the tank. Christian went coo-coo for them. For hours he just kept saying "I love them soooo much, they are sooo cute! I just want to hold the baby fish!" This turned into quite a few floor kicking tantrums, he just did not want to hear that you can't hold fish. He finally wrapped his head around that, and now he loves taking care of them. We managed to save 3 baby fish from being eaten, now they are 3 1/2 weeks old and getting big. I'm so proud of myself! We also got Ryan a turtle, a red eared slider to be exact. I got him that because I killed his fish. Both him and Courtney have been taking excellent care of their pets. But our first batch of fish had one fish that started to be attacked by some of the others, so me not knowing that could make a fish sick, I moved it into Ryan's tank, which then got sick and got his fish sick and killed them. I'm the worst mom ever, Ryan's fish would have been fine if I would have just stayed away from them. So i definitely felt obligated to replace them, and this time he chose a turtle.


Ok, so that's as much as I can write right now. Sir Christian is up and I have to make dinner and get Court and Ry to their games. But I will write more and add pics later.