A little bit of everything

Well, our Christmas Tree is up!! Not decorated however. We put it up yesterday and because our dehumidifier overflowed a couple of months ago, it went under our Tree in the basement and now the Tree has a musty smell :( Got out the ol'ferbreeze and sprayed that sucker down! Doesn't help that much though.

We've been attempting to put our decorations out and around the house but haven't been that successful in the past couple of days. Everything seems to be that way.

I don't know what Kenny will be getting for Christmas. I'm at a total loss. He's so hard to buy for!

I went to burn my pictures on CD and found that my burner isn't working now. I guess it hasn't since I formatted my pc. GRRR, if it's not one thing it's another.

Brooke is drooling and spitting on Kenny, so I better go help I suppose :) He's such a good daddy and husband.. he's been getting up with Brooke in the mornings and letting me sleep in....what more can a woman ask for!!

Ta ta!

Poor Snoopy

If I were Snoopy, I would be literally in a straight jacket going insane!! Aliyah will NOT leave him alone for 5 minutes. She's always dragging him around or putting blankets over him to watch him walk around the house, talking to him right in his face or screaming at him. I literally go nuts just watching it! (Of course I try to stop her but there's no way that she is doing that!)

Christmas is just around the corner and we don't have any money!! It's kinda depressing....we got Aliyah and Brooke a few things and I think I would consider them just about done.

I'm thinkin about having a little breakdown anytime. I've been very stressed out with the kids, money, house, etc lately. I'm about to blow up anytime!!

Anyway, guess Brooke will be up soon. Aliyah is chasing Snoopy around the family room. So I guess I should get back to my day.

The Things Little One's Say.....

I had to write this down before I forgot about it. I was talking to Aliyah today and she all of a sudden tooted (in other words farted) I said "What was that!!" She said "Oh, I just tooted, sorry bout that!" I had to laugh!!

I was just sitting in the lazy boy with her and I was asking her to count how many eyes, ears, etc that I had. So she was doing good up until she got to my nose. She counted my nostrils and said I had 2 noses. Well that was cute....then we got down to my chin. I said "How many chins does Mommy have?" She started to count " 1....2....3..... 3 Chins mommy!" LOL!!!!!!!!!!! That's pretty bad! BUT OH SO FUNNY... I started laughing and so did she.

Violated

Woke up this morning and Kenny happened to look out our bedroom window and noticed a bunch of papers on the ground outside. I went over to check it out and found that someone had broke into our SUV last night. 99% of the time, we lock the doors, but just so happened that we didn't last night. I don't think they took anything of importance but the point of someone going through your vehicle, I feel very violated!!
I just contacted the police to report it. They said that someone else called in this morning from the next street over. Nice eh!

Well, that's twice in 4 years that someone has done this. Close to Christmas time and someone wants some gifts for their honey or something. That's why I don't like going outside for a smoke when I get up at 5 a.m. cause you just never know whose lurking around!

Tired

Brooke has been up since quarter to five this morning and I'm just about ready to go have a little snooze before Kenny has to go to work.

I can't believe that Joey got kicked off of Dancing with the Stars!! GRR... Although I really like all of them, I thought that Emmit would have been the one to leave the show last night. I really like Joey!! I think Mario will end up taking the title! We'll have to see!

OOOO I just remembered, today is Thursday so my show is on tonight!! Grey's Anatomy!! YAY! I get so excited on Thursdays :) I remember Kenny watching the show a long time ago and asking, "What's this show anyway???" because I usually don't like the shows that he watches. I ended up watching it with him and have been hooked ever since!

The countdown is on, another 4 minutes I'm going to go wake up Kenny and lay down!

Christmas is coming believe it or not!

Aliyah and I had a great talk about Christmas last night. It's our first real conversation that we've had about Santa, where he comes from, the elves making toys, etc. She was very curious. We also talked about Jesus and that he loves everyone. I ask her now "Who loves you?" and she says "Jesus loves me" I think it's so cute! She's soooo excited already about Christmas. I can't wait!

The other day when it snowed, Aliyah looked out her window and seen the snow falling on the ground. She usually gets up and wants something to eat right away. Well not that day! She got dressed for outside and started playing in the snow at 7:30 a.m. It was kinda cold, so she didn't stay too long but she was just facinated with it!

Brooke ate her first Arrow Root cookie today. She absolutely loved it. She didn't make too much of a mess either. It was pretty much mush by the time she was done with it but you should have seen her take at it! It was like she hadn't eaten for weeks!

Aliyah has been taking her Flintstone vitamins. She asks for one everyday. Everytime she eats one, she wants me to look at her feet because she says that they are growing. She says that she wants to be a big girl. I don't want her growing up too fast ;)

Stairs are almost ready for finishing! Kenny has been working on them for the past couple of days and they are just about ready to be screwed down. There is one coat on them and once a second coat goes on, they'll be ready! YAY! It looks awesome too. He's done a really good job.

Stressed!

Don't ask me why, but lately I've been feeling very stressed out. I'm guessing it's a combination of things, trying to get the house fixed up, kids, being home for 4 days at a time and not leaving the house, living in a messy house and not getting enough sleep. Those are just a few!

I went scrapbooking today at my friend Elizabeth's house. We all get together once a month and scrapbook. It's a stress reliever for sure! I really look forward to it everytime!

I've been picking up a few Christmas presents here and there so that it won't be that bad come Christmas time. We don't have alot of money this year, it's certainly tight. We won't be going over board!! I'm going to try to be creative this year.... I'll have to wait and see.

Snow fell today!! I can't wait to go out in it with Aliyah when we get a big snow fall and help her make snowmen. I may end up having to get a snow suit myself ;)

I'm feeling a bit sick to my stomach so I'm going to go and relax for a bit before Desperate Housewives comes on. Love that show!

Ta Ta!

Trick or Treating is over for another year!

It was a fun night last night. I think Aliyah enjoyed herself. At first, she didn't want to get dressed up for Halloween, I think seeing her friend get upset caused her to do the same ;) But as soon as it started getting a bit dark out, she was raring to go! She got her Tigger outfit on with her black stripes on her face and an orange nose and headed out the door with her Mommy and Daddy. Thankfully Kenny's mom came over to watch Brooke while we took her out. (It was too cold for little Brooke to go out this year - definately next year!) We walked around the entire block to pretty much every house. Aliyah ended up with 2 big mixing bowls full of candy. Needless to say, it's going to be a rough week or two with keeping her hands out of it every minute of the day. Every door she went to she said "Trick or treat" and then "Thank you". After about an hour, she was ready to come back home, that was alot of walking for those little legs!

Gabby is coming over to play today with Aliyah. I haven't told her this yet because as soon as I did, that's all I would be hearing is "When is Gabby coming???" So I'll wait until the time is near to mention it to her.

It's time to get started on the cleaning for the day. Fun fun fun!!