Recap of the end of 2011

I have been meaning to do a recap of everything we have been up to but keep forgetting to grab my camera to load the pics. I guess those really just have pictures from the holidays but still fun to be able to share. It's been so long since I have posted, I wont remember everything, but here's a shot.

We went to the rainforest

 And watched a little TV....

 We played at the McDonald's kids land

 And opened some early Christmas presents

 We went to my parents for an early Hanukkah dinner and the kids got more presents

 Including a Dora backpack..

 That Quinlin needed to carry everywhere...

 We also started to wear underwear...but she didn't want the girlie ones, just Owen's.

 Christmas morning we woke up and opened presents galore

 and even slept with our new truck

 We got a new sled for Christmas, but there was no snow, so we used it to sit on while we watched tv

 We went to school after Christmas and wore one of our new sweaters that Grandma gave us... and proceeded to vomit on it as soon as we got to school. Needless to say, we were pretty sick during the holidays. 

 So instead of school, we hung out in our jammies...in our sled.

 I got new boots. Now the search is on for skinny jeans that I actually like.

 We finally got snow and built a snowman

 Well, we played while Sean built

 "I can't put my arms down!"

 We stayed in for New Years and Sean made a fabulous dinner.

 This picture doesn't quite go with the recaps, but it was too funny to not include. Mrs. Potato Quinlin!

We've had a really nice last few weeks. Hopefully back to blogging more regularly. It's hard to remember everything we have done when I let it go for so long! Had a great dinner last night- will post recipe and pics tomorrow. Hopefully will post pictures from my camera as well from the holidays. And then this week, my baby turns two!

How I am ending 2011

I was supposed to take this week off for some "me" time. I had shopping ventures planned, lunches with friends. Instead of my kids going to daycare as planned, i have had all three of them home almost all week with me....and I couldn't have "planned" it any better. Working full time, I miss the simple joy of just playing in the morning or making breakfast or playing in the snow. This may not have been how I planned my week, instead much better!

I will catch up the blog after the holiday with pictures of what we have been doing Until then, happy new year. Hoping for health and happiness in 2012!

Wordless Wednesday- Our Holiday Card

Christmas Parties!

I don't know how it's been so long since a real post. So- not even able to remember everything we have been doing lately, I guess I'll leave it to pictures to help remind me...

We had our annual Christmas party at work. It was amazing...

Owen has that I'm so over it look...

And then we hosted our annual Christmas party at our house the following night. It was smaller than normal, I think we had about 23... but it almost made it better. we were able to talk to everyone and spend some good time with people.

Looking forward to this week. I was very ahead of the game this year...but still have so much to get done.

Wordless Wednesday

I have been so busy between work, the upcoming holidays and just life in general... I promise to post more later in the week. But until then, my wordless Wednesday:

Quinlin put the animals in time-out.... I love how they are all facing the wall. Apparently this little lady knows a thing or two about time-outs.

what a difference a year makes

Remember these school pictures? Owen and Quinlin had this year's batch taken. This time, reverse, Owen smiled fine, Quinlin was not impressed.

Quinlin last year:

and this year:

Owen's last year:

and this year:

and then they even took a picture of the two of them together...

Maybe next year, they'll both smile... one can hope!

Funny Things said

Owen's words to Quinlin in the tub "stop touching my pirates"....it's privates, little man. Privates.

Sean and Hunter have had a nasty stomach virus the past few days. "Daddy came down with the sickies. I caught some sort of bug". Owen's response "was it a caterpillar?"