cheers

menace

her name says it all

laken tells me that I am his best friend in the whole wide world all of the time. I don't know how long this phase will last but it is so sweet.

tonight was date night with sadie gray. grandma kept Laken overnight so dan and I could spend some quality time with our 5 year old princess. she decided she wanted to see the alvin and the chipmunk squequel and eat cheeseburgers.
sadie is a little fireball--and never stops going--lately dan and I have felt like we haven't been connecting with her well and came up with this date night. it was really nice to be able to focus on one child all night and devote all of our attention to her and she seemed to enjoy it as well. she is a real blessing!!

New Years eve consisted of stuffed mushrooms, crab puffs, homemade butterscotch cookies, and staying in. I don't think dan and I have ever gone out on a new years eve in the 7 years we have known each other. our good friend Tony came over for an hour or so -and brought over a wondeful bottle of red wine he had bottled himself. yummy
dan and I watched the movie Extract after the kiddos went to sleep--a comedy with jason bateman (my hubby bears an uncanny resemblance to him)

we have a lot to look forward to in 2010--!!!!

I tend to stay away from my blog in stressful periods of my life and almost have an aversion to it at times.--like it is a chore that needs to get done and is another procrastination in my life. I do enjoy it most of the time--it is dumping my problems and parts of my life into the computer and releasing my feeling and emotions onto a blank screen.
we are in financial woes--we haven't been able to make the payments on our house in central point in two months and it doesn't look much better anytime soon. I don't think we can dig ourselves out of this hole.
on another note--I am a car accident magnet--I ran into another jetta tonight after work--such a small tap on the rearend driven by a teenager who had recently just gotten three appraisals for the car accident he had been in last week. He told me he would look at the car in the morning and see if there was any damage but wouldn't file a claim if it was minor. third accident in under a year--all my fault--not paying attention and always in a hurry. must slow down my life somehow.

i'm back

My mom told me today that I needed to update my blog sooo here I am. Now that Christmas is over I can take a breath and focus on things other then christmas cards, shopping, baking, and wrapping. Sadie and Laken finally went to bed--and Dan and I have a couple minutes to unwind and eat pie--hee hee.

we didn't have any snow but everything was iced over this am when we woke up so it looked like it had snowed. dan and I took the kids to cloudy with a chance of meatballs at mcmenamins--can't beat a movie for a dollar.

we also dechristmatized today--not exactly sure if that is a word

here are a few christmas pics