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Monday's weekend in review...

Published on 12.13.2010 in

The past weekend included a stuffed animal massacre..
























(see the culprit running away?)

...finally getting some retaliation...

















...raking leaves...

















...Mommy's heart melting because someone is growing up...

















...paint balling heroes...
















...being taught by someone military trained...

















...Christmas baking...

















...a whole lotta love in a chair...
























...pedicures!...



















...Christmas pictures of some cuties...
























...and my guys...

















...and this cutie...

























...and, oh, do you see this one?...

























...and really, how can this not make your heart melt?...













...Santa Claus!...

















...who is magic...

















...and everyone believes in his magic...
















 (Afterward she looked at me and said: "I think he had a REAL beard!")

...yep, my heart melted again...

...it also included a Christmas program for this one...

























....and this one...

























...where she did a fabulous job not only on the stage...
























...but also at the piano...

















...he...well, he didn't do so well...

















...and this one just wanted to play with Uncle SK's iphone...

















...there were stars and donkeys...

















(yep, that's right...the gray things on their heads are donkey ears...)

...yep, totally laughed my ass off at that...pun intended...

...wise men...

















...and a whole lotta love...

















...for celebrating the real reason for the season...












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Friday's Favorites...Shutterfly's Christmas Cards

Published on 12.10.2010 in

This year...once Engineering Man is healthy...I'm hoping to make our own Christmas cards using Shutterfly's online photo cards.  















I've used Shutterfly before...mainly for printing pictures for my 30 before 30...




















...but this year I'd like to step outside of the box and use my camera to make our own Christmas cards.




















Shutterfly has great options for holiday cards; I mean, just look at these really cute options...




















...and the best part about it is they actually give you search options on the side to make the process easier...




















...super hard to go through 800+ card choices...
















I'm planning to do a  multi-picture card this year...to showcase not only the family, but also the boys...




















...Although I might do a card with the choice to add a little letter as well...




















Not only does Shutterfly have the great Christmas cards...













...they also have holiday cards...



















...and CALENDARS! (http://www.shutterfly.com/calendars)...
















You can customize the calendars with specific dates, and even photos on dates.  Not just pictures for each of the months.

It's a great idea, and one I might just have to do for one of my family's Christmas presents.

I can now check a few more items off my Christmas to do list.

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Thursday Things I Never Thought I'd Hear...

Published on 12.09.2010 in

Engineering Man was laid up yesterday in bed.

He felt horrible...had been up since 4 a.m. laying out on the couch, and was finally getting some rest.

I had to wake him up...didn't want to, but I needed to know who I needed to tell that he wasn't going to make it in to work.

"Honey, I need to call your work.  Who'm I supposed to call?"

"Ghostbusters."

smartass...

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Monday's...wait, Wednesday's...weekend in review.

Published on 12.08.2010 in

As stated before, the week's been crazy so far.  According to Engineering Man I'm failing as a blogger.

But I'm excelling as a mom...so, is it really failing after all?

Anyway...this weekend we traveled north.  

It included a trip down memory lane...

















...well, really the yellow brick road...

















...to the place I used to be in every evening and most weekends for a few years...

















...it felt odd to be on the outside looking in...

























...a military ball...



















...to see old...



















...and new friends...



















...a princess castle...

























...for the princess of the family...

















...a "kids" table...

















...snuggling with great grandma...

















...a snuggie...

























...decorating for Christmas...

























...and a "sold" sign in the yard...