Flashback Friday.... on Monday?

Because the last week has been crazy I didn't get to post my Flashback Friday pictures, the theme is still Christmas so I decided to post a few of the boys from last year. It is amazing how much they change in such a short time.

Behind on Blog..

It has be one long and hectic week as I am sure with everyone else, so glad to see I am not the only one. The earlier post is pictures from Christmas Eve to Christmas Day of the boys having a blast, thought you might enjoy (to listen to the song along with the slide show you will need to pause or lower the volume of my music player at the bottom of the page). I hope everyone had a great Christmas and enjoyed time with family and friends. We have had such a good time so far and are staying so busy with Daddy at home on vacation. We did go see Rhema lights last night and it was so very cold for our little walk, we warmed up with so hot chocolate then came home. Our Christmas Eve was busy, I got up early to work on some items for Christmas Day dinner for the four of us and then we went over to Doug's mom and dad's to open gifts. After that went went to Doug's Grannie's to open gifts and the boys had so much fun. Once we were home we had to write our letter to Santa and leave out cookies and milk which meant getting them to bed was not an easy task that night. The next day we opened gifts and celebrated Jesus' birthday then ate our wonderful Christmas lunch, so much food for four people. After nap time we went back over to Doug's mom and dad's to visit with everyone, eat and have a good time. We have not been home one complete day since last Tuesday and we have decided tomorrow or actually today that we are staying home to relax. I sure hope everyone had a great Christmas!

Flashback Friday

I could only find one of me of when I was little, guess I better try to get some from my mom and I will definitely need to get some from Doug's mom. In this picture I was three and who knows what I am holding up but I obiviously thought it was great. Oh the joy of being three.

Keeping it simple for Thanksgiving & Christmas

Well my friends it is that time of year again where everyone will most likely eat way too much and gain those pesky unwanted pounds. At my house this year we are keeping it very simple, it will be just the four of us. Doug is working Thanksgiving evening, I know horrible right, well that's the way it goes when you are a pharmacist, somebody has to work right? It's really not that bad, we only go through this every two years, but it is easy to live with. The deal is you volunteer to work Thanksgiving or Christmas, in our case always Thanksgiving, and the next year you are off both holidays, they try to make it fair. Otherwise if you do not volunteer, your name gets put in a drawing and you may end up working Christmas morning or not at all, but who wants to take the chance, just volunteer and be done with it. Anyway, we are used to this every few years and it really isn't a big deal for us anyway. So I will be making our dinner, I love cooking this time of year, well most of the cooking, you see I don't do raw Turkey, absolutely disgusting, I in turn have ordered my Turkey from the Hamlet (if you haven't tried them, they are the best and they deliver worldwide), everything else I will make. My family hasn't done Thanksgiving in five and a half years, since my Nana passed away, but they want to start doing them again. Since right before we go married we always had Thanksgiving with my family but after Nana passed away it was too hard for everyone to get together, so we starting going over to Doug's grandparents. We didn't go the Thanksgiving after Nic was born, Doug had to work and I wasn't toting a two year old and a one month old out in the cold and taking care of them by myself, so we did dinner here that year also. They say once you have children your priorities change and ours are a changing. My aunt decided to go ahead and start our Thanksgiving and Christmas traditions again this year, you know where we will be going from now on, but with Doug working we will not be making our Thanksgiving trip this time. On my side of the family, everyone loves seeing the boys not that they don't on Doug's side but it seems like all the kids are in the way and there really isn't anything for them to do. And as for Christmas we will be doing the same, if his Grannie does her thing on Christmas Eve we will be there and then come home, because I have dinner to start getting ready for Christmas Day. Our new tradition is staying at home Christmas Day so that we can relax and the boys can play with all their new things. In days of old we would go to Grannie's, then to his mom and dad's which turned into a very late night and cranky children (and we would always have to turn around and be back by noon for dinner/then they would start without us anyway), those days are gone, my family comes first and I don't care how anyone feels about it. I know feelings will be hurt but that's just the way things go sometimes, but when people have double standards (preach and act one way and then do something totally different) I begin to draw the line. My family and beliefs come first and we are raising our boys to be MEN of GOD and do the right thing and it starts with Doug and I. So with that, I try not to hurt peoples feeling, actually I do everything to try to help and please but morals and the right thing will always prevail in the end. And this is exactly how our boys will be raised. Sorry about the rambling but sometimes you just have to get things out.