2009 movie

Music is Ghostwriter by RJD2 - I found this song on Tara Whitney's blog. She used it for her 2009 video too....it's a bit strange, but then again, so are we!!

Christmas 2009

Our Christmas 2009 was, at the very least, quite eventful.

On Christmas Eve we went to my Aunt and Uncle's house for our family party. Sadly, I don't really have any pictures from the party this year. I decided to put my camera down and ENJOY. Besides...it's nighttime and indoors - not the best conditions for picture taking.

So, you will have to settle for these two pictures we took before we left:

After the wonderful party, we returned home, left cookies out for Santa, carrots for the reindeer - we only left one carrot, but we cut it into nine pieces...Emily's idea - and the girls went to bed. While Eric and I were taking care of some "stuff" downstairs, our youngest daughter was having a little trouble falling asleep. After a few attempts of trying to get her to go back to sleep, I decided to give her some Benedryl. She had been a little stuffy, and I thought that this may be the reason she was so crabby.....not so much. The Benedryl came back up, as did the rest of her stomach contents. Lovely. And she was now screaming. So, there was much panic in the house. Bed stripping, child washing, sheet washing, and finishing up our business downstairs. And, by the way, Emily slept through ALL OF IT. My champion sleeper.

So, a tired crew woke up on Christmas morning to a mound of presents. Paige was most excited about her Elmo underwear - which I neglected to get a picture of, because at that point she was still on my lap. Emily ripped through her gifts in about 3 minutes. Then she ripped through Paige's - Paige literally stopped after opening the underwear...and that was the first thing she opened.

After a while, things calmed down. And little children got caught up in all their new stuff.





And now, I am recovering from Strep Throat. Yes, the fun around here never ends. But, I am feeling MUCH better than I was last night. I am hoping the throat pain subsides soon...I am REALLY sick of jello, popsicles and soup. I WANT PIZZA!!!

Hope your Christmas was magical, and a lot less messy!!

a couple videos...

I shot these videos this past week - but with everything going on, this is the first time I could post them. Enjoy!!

the rest...

Emily had a WONDERFUL Seventh Birthday. She wore another birthday crown all day at school - missed her name being read during morning announcements because she was at computer class...oh well, got serenaded by her whole class, received a free ice cream from the principal, got lots and lots of very nice gifts, some pretty cool flowers, and her favorite chocolate-chocolate cake. She also had a very nice dinner at Red Robin with us, Grandma, Aunt Teresa and Uncle Denny. A FULL day. Also a school night - which meant that Emily had to go to bed without really getting to play with her presents. Poor girl. Well, she has a whole two weeks off of school starting Friday afternoon...so I don't feel too bad for her. She's going to need that amount of time just to put together 1/2 of the Lego set that she got from the Marcikic clan!!

Some more pictures:



Paige helped Emily with her candles....

Emily FINALLY got her Bendaroos (from Grandma)...

The aforementioned Lego set...

AND, a couple pictures I took of Paige this afternoon....

And now...ON TO CHRISTMAS!!!!!

SEVEN

Emily is SEVEN today. Actually, she'll be 7 at 7pm. But....we started celebrating this morning.

But first, on Sunday night, she left me this note:


Okay, Emily. Queen for the day it is.....

And because there wasn't really time for birthday pancake this morning...we had birthday scrambled eggs.
We made "E" cookies for her birthday treat at school today. There will be much celebrating tonight - we will be having dinner at her favorite place, Red Robin, and then chocolate cake, ice cream and presents at home.

Happy Birthday to my sweet, crazy, silly, creative, imaginative, super-smart, super-adorable, girl. I can't believe seven years have passed since the day you were born.

Practicing a Smiley Face

By George, I think she's got it!!!!!

Brunch with Santy Claus

So, let's just say that my instincts were correct....Paige and Santa....not so much. And can I just say one thing....I LOVE my husband - BUT - I offered to hold Paige next to Santa. And why did I offer this? Well, because, I would have made sure that my sweet girls dress was not hiked up. If you really want to know, I think THIS is the real reason she was crying. :) LOVE YOU HUNNY!!!

At least my Emily was totally into it.
She was completely nervous sitting up there. She forgot to tell Santa that she wanted new roller blades. So, when the line died down, Eric took her back so she could let him know.

I asked her, "Em, do you think that's the real Santa?"
"Yes, Mom. BUT, where's his sleigh? I didn't see it parked out front."
"Oh, the sleigh is back at the North Pole getting loaded up with presents." Eric says.
"Santa probably flew coach."

Coach. Really??