8 more days....

I have finally finished Christmas shopping and wrapping all the presents. I am so excited to be done!! I took a couple of pics of the tree with the presents underneath. I love looking at it. It is fun for the kids too because they start getting so curious about what is in all those gifts. Sean and I got up this morning and noticed the entry way light on. I immediatley thought did we leave that on last night?? Sean goes walking in the computer room to find Cameron down on the floor looking at all the gifts...lol. I am also putting a picture of Tumwater falls up. Sean went out after it had been below freezing for at least a week, and had started snowing. I wish we would have thought to go out a little earlier that day. It was pretty much already dark by the time he got there. I still thought the picture turned out pretty cool! So here it is to share. There is so much more to photograph in Oly than there was in Puyallup. I like that!

Cam and Breanne's Christmas Program

Yes, I know it isn't called a Christmas program anymore, but I will keep calling it that forever. I have to say for one moment that it makes me so sad that they have taken God out of the school. They can't even sing a song with Merry Christmas in it. It has to say Happy Holidays, yet they can sing about Hanukkah. It just really irritates me. I guess I feel like everyone should know how annoyed I am....LOL! I am totally all for other religions and such but why can't we have ours too? Anyway I am done for now. So here is some pictures from their concert. They both did great and it was so fun to watch. Sean was able to get out of work to come and watch also. Thank goodness cause he is the photographer! MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE!!

Following directions :-)

Where's Cameron?? He really is in there!!Waving to mommy in the crowdSinging her little ♥heart♥ out!!

IT'S SNOWING!!!! :-)

I am soooo excited we are finally getting snow!! It has been extremely cold this week. The lowest I ever remember the temp getting. It was getting down in the single digits at night. Well now of course the temp isn't as cold but it is finally snowing. I am hoping it keeps coming down and the kids don't have school tomorrow. Then we can go out and play in it. YIPPEE!! :-)

Christmas card 2009

Here is our Christmas card this year. I have mailed them all out now so most of you have already seen it. Sean took the pics and made the card this year. It was a much cheaper way of doing things and it turned out great. I have decided that we will probably do it this way every year from now on. As you all know we do family pics and cards every year. It is my one thing that is very important to me. I never had a picture of all of my family together. I guess this way I will make sure my kids have that. I am a little extreme about it I know but it is just our tradition now. It is cool to look back every year and see how much we have all changed. I am so happy I have made this our tradition. I hope you enjoy it as well!

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas.....

I am so excited. We decorated the Christmas tree tonight and now I am totally in the Christmas mood. I always get like this where I just can't wait for Christmas. Then I blink and we are putting everything away for the next year. It always goes so fast and it makes me sad because I just love this time of year. We have extra lights from years ago that we never use. We had this idea to put them up in the kids bedrooms. So Cam has blue lights in his room and Breanne has purple in hers. I don't know why we have never thought of this before. The kids are totally excited. The funny thing is I think I bought those lights before both of them were ever born. Now here we are just using them. Funny that the colors were blue and purple. I must have known I would have a boy and girl. Something like that. Anyway here is a couple of pics to share with you. Only 21 more days left. Exactly 3 weeks away. That just seems crazy to me.

Freezing cold

It has been so cold here the last couple of days. It has gotten down to the 20's everynight. It is so pretty in the morning when you wake up and everything is white but it's all sunny out! I love it. So this morning Sean left for work. He ran back in calling all of us to come look. We get a ton of spider webs here. I mean A LOT!! So here is what he saw. Frozen spider webs. It looks really cool!!

Fiber does a body good

So Cameron is on Fiber tablets due to some obvious problems that we don't need to talk about...lol. He is supposed to take one everyday. Well Breanne has grown to love them like any other tasty medicine (she is just like that). She always comes to me and asks me if she can have one and a vitamin. I know both my kids probably don't get enough fiber in their diet so it is no big deal. I always let her take them in the evening around dinner. Well last night just like any other night she comes to me and asks and I say yes. So about 1 hour later her tummy starts hurting. Not even thinking about anything I just thought great she is getting sick AGAIN...Ugh!! So about 30 min after that Sean feels her tummy. It is really hard and sort of bloated. He decides to look up what can make you bloated. The first thing he finds is too much fiber. Breanne loves to eat fiber one bars so Sean goes and asks how many she has had today. I immediately think of the fiber tablets. I asked if he asked her about that. He said yes and she said she only ate one. Well me knowing Breanne goes over and asks her again how many fiber tablets did you eat? She tells me one. I asked her to promise me and we have always taught our kids that a promise is a promise, she decides to tell me the truth. She did eat more. She doesn't remember how many more though. So at this point I am worried she is going to get overdose poisioning or something. So I call the nurse at our doctors office. She tells me to call poison control. Now I am really freaking out!! So I call and she tells me it is fine she can't get poisoned from that, THANK GOD!! So she tells me to make her drink lots of water so it will work through her system, which about another 90 mins from this point it does. She had the runs for like 20 minutes. As bad as I felt for her I was happy that it did something to her so that she realized how serious this is. We had a long talk also about how taking too much medicine can make you die or extremely sick. We didn't make it look pretty by any means. I REALLY REALLY hope she learned her lesson. She was in quite a bit of pain there for about an hour or so. So I think that along with the runs she won't ever do it again. I have also learned that I can't trust her to get her own from now on until she matures a little more and really understands the meaning of "medicine". I can't believe her sometimes. I was talking to Sean last night and saying how Cameron would never do this. He wouldn't have done this at 4. He is one that follows my rules to a T. I could tell him he can only have two cookies and leave and know that he would only eat 2 cookies. Breanne would have at least 4 and possibly more. This little girl at two was sneaky. Just two totally different personalities for sure. Well I am just very thankful that it was only a fiber overdose and not something more major. What a fun filled night it was!! :-)