Thanksgiving is tomorow.

I have to make a cake tonight :) We're going to Brooksville to my Grandfather's house. My Aunt Linda, Uncle Bryan (and his family), my parents, and the Blair family will be there. We may stop by my Pawpaw's house in the morning to see everyone if we get an early enough start. I'll bring the camera for pics and hopefully some time or other I'll actually get around to posting some.

I have to take the kids Christmas photos yet, and I need Logan's shoes to do it. We have everything else (I have to make sure Raegan's panty-hose fit). I really need to get started on my Christmas cards and this year I'm includng a letter...top 10 from the year. I'm trying to do it from the Cat's persepctive to make it interesting. We shall see :)

I probably won't be posting anything tomorrow, and the weekend is up in the air. I know we're going to be decorating like crazy, I'm SO excited!!!

Raegan went to the doctor today

She's ok :) I thought she might have a UTI, but she's ok thankfully! Now we just have to get her eating well again...doc thinks it could take time because of the whole system trauma with the stomach bug.

We are done with the kids Christmas! Yay!! Now we just have to save enough for the Chicago trip and Disney and we'll be good to go :)

I don't feel much like typing, so that's all for today.

Man am I tired!

It's Monday...that's tiring enough I guess. Last night my little man got up 3 times, makes me tiredto have broken sleep like that. Raegan I think is sick again, only this time I think it may be a UTI. She has no appetite, she's tired all the time, slight fever...and a few other symptoms. I'm calling the ped. in the morning to get her in. I'm so sick of sick!
I'm working on a Christmas letter! This will be a first, but I'm thinking it could be fun :) We'll see! We have the kids Christmas outfits, so I'm hoping to get their photos soon.
I've been working out now 5 days a week, starting last week. I, of coarse, haven't noticed a difference, but I'm going to make myself continue. Wish me luck :)

Friday, Saturday, Sunday...I'm not so good at keeping up!

I never got around to posting Halloween pics...how sad is that? I have been working on Photoshop and the learning curve is ridiculous and I'm having some issues learning it! So, just wait and I'll get some evenutally!

Friday, nada mucho going on...Saturday we had a babysitter!! We ordered the kids pizza, went out to dinner, and then went Christmas shopping! We are almost completely done with the kids :) Yay!! We have one large and one small gift to buy Raegan and a few stocking stuffers. So, that's a first for us! We are usually scraping just before the big day.

We also went through a bunch of boxes and threw out a bunch of stuff, cleaned out the office, and cleaned the carpet in the office and living room. It looks fantastic, but took me forever. We had a bad odor in the office from Minny (the cat pee smell that we tried to get rid of more than once). It seems to be gone.

Sunday we didn't do much, just a little grocery shopping and tonight we did some vacation planning. We're cutting the funds pretty close because we are planning Disney as part of it. We're totally excited about it, but I'm a bit nervous about the money. I hope it works out!

I feel a little bad, but w won't be able to do much in the way of gifts for everyone again this year, but I'm totally hoping to get creative and make something for people...ideas are welcome :)

Thursday's almost over

Well, it's been a really crappy couple of weeks here. Sick husband, sick son, and now sick daughter, and sick Gramma. It's neverending I tell ya! Not a whole lot has been going on given that nobody can seem to feel well for longer than a day or two. It's pretty much sucky, but I'm hoping there's a light at the end of the tunnel, and I'm sure as hell hoping I don't get it! Right now, not much to report I guess. I'm tired and ready for the weekend, hopefully a nice relaxing one (yeah right, someone remind me that I have 2-3 year olds!). Ciao for now!

Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday...where'd the time go?

Man, I feel like time is just flying by these days! We have a lot going on with the sickies and trying to plan for vacation. We're going to Chicago for Christmas so we're trying to finalize our plans and stash the dough to do it. So that's a little stressful, but I think we can do it ;) So here's what's been going on for the last few days:
Over the weekend we went to Downtown Disney to pick up our ornament for Christmas (our family one) and the kids had a ton of fun. They went on the Merry-go-round and the train again, and we also went on the ferry boat. It was a really nice day :) Sunday we stayed home and cleaned up.
Today, Monday, was a little stressful. Logan hadn't gone 'poop' for nearly a week, so I was back in touch with the pediatrician. Thank God, before the ped called back he finally went. He was getting sick though, lethargic, lifeless, cold sweats...after he went he was a-ok. So now, we just have to hope he stays regular. Very scary stuff right there. He ate a little better tonight too...his appetite has been completely awful lately, but I'm hopeful it's on the upswing now. Fingers crossed!

Wasn't today a special adventure *eyeroll*

4:30 am ~ Logan joins me in bed (Chuck leaves for work aroun 3:45)
6:30 am ~ Logan vomits all over my bed, some pillows, comforter, and even me (lucky girl)
7:15 am ~ Logan has showered with me, is comfortable watching T.V. on couch
7:20 am ~ Check on Raegan, discover she peed her pants at some point during the night
8:00 am ~ I leave for work (I start at 8am)
The rest of the day is a bit of a blur, busy at work....came home for lunch, kids are a bit on the quiet subdued side (for them)
Come home from work, go to the mall to pick up Ratatouille (we pre-purchased), get a pretzel from Auntie Annies for everyone's dinner (nice dinner,heh?). Come home, clean up, put jammies on kids, everyone is to bed by 8:30...clean up some more, print out some worksheets for the kids during the day to do....type this post, and the rest is history.

The Sickies!!

Well, my 'ugly' reference on last nights post unfortunately came true! Logan threw up everywhere last night, and I mean everywhere! The worst of it was he kept right on sleeping and if I hadn't heard his abnormal cough, I wouldn't have even checked on him. He seems fine today, but you never can tell. Chuck is better too, but not 100%. Raegan has exhibited no signs of sickness, knock on wood. However, last night she took a dive into dads thumb (she was jumping towards him with her mouth open and he had his hands out) inside her mouth and took a chunk out of the roof of her mouth...bled, cried, and still hurts some today. Ouch!

Today has been alright, a little more busy at work, but nothing catastrophic. Right this minute I'm the only one in the office, so it's pretty quiet. Tonight I have got to do laundry in the worst way, and clean up. So we'll see how the rest of the day goes and hopefully I'll make some progress on that.

Can you believe the year is almost over...again??? Daylight savings time is messing with my head...it's nearly dark when I leave work and I feel like the day is gone...how sad :(

Tuesday, glorious Tuesday

The Good: Today at work was pretty slow actually. I spent a lot of time designing a logo-type thing for the company letter-head. I actually enjoyed that :) Then from 3-4, Janet and I prepared some platters for a board meeting....I washed the grapes, cut up the cheese and salami, and arranged it on a platter. It came out nice :) Boss loved it!

The Bad: Chuck called around 11am and asked how I was feeling...fine I told him. Apparently he's caught a nasty virus and has been having issues holding anything in :( When I got home at 5 he was in bed, his temp was 102.4 and he wasn't able to hold much in. I gave him tylenol, checked him an hour later, down to 101.5, and gave him some Advil (alternating trick like with kids). So he's home sleeping and I have the kids at my parents' house.

The Ugly: What if we all get it??? YIKES!

Well, time to administer baths to the wild natives and start them winding down for the night! Peace Out!!!

3 days since the last update, so here we go...

Saturday ~ What a fun, wonderful day! The weather turned cooler FINALLY and we wanted to stay outdoors as much as wek could. We went to Orlando to Downtown Disney to just walk around. It's bascially a giant outdoor Disney mall. The kids love it, there is a merry-go-round and a train for little ones...of coarse they rode on it. We also decided to take the ferry boat to one of the resorts and have a look around. It's one we've wanted to stay at, so what better way to see if it's worth it! The kids totally loved the boat ride, and the resort looks like something we are all about staying at (Port Orleans). We also bought our family Christmas ornament for this year, I'll post a pic of it when we get it (it's being personalized and won't be ready til Tuesday...so we're going back Saturday to pick that up. After all that, we had a bite to eat at "Earl of Sandwich" (fantastic Quizno-type subs) and headed home (about 2 hour drive). The kids slept the whole way, they were completely exhausted. We were home by 10:30, and in bed by 11...not bad!
Sunday ~ Also a beautiful day, we went out to the mall, didn't buy anything, decided to leave and go eat at Applebee's. It was pretty good. The kids have been giving us absolute fits about eating their meals, so that's never fun, but otherwise it went ok (despite the fact that it was freezing in the restaurant and we had no jackets for the kids). So home we went and that ended the weekend...it went by as quickly as I typed this update!
Monday ~ Yay, another stinky Monday. It went ok, my boss had a little meltdown...but otherwise it was ok (he didn't melt down on me or anything, just in general...loudly). Not too much going on, we had some yummy pork chops and green beans for dinner, everyone was in bed by 8pm (except me obviously), and I worked out on the Gazelle for 30 minutes. I am going to try and commit to more excercise. So we'll see :) Tuesday is just around the corner, so stay tuned!

Friday at last :)

Well, Friday is here finally and I'm ready for the weekend...although I know as usual it will just fly right by :( Tonight we went to the mall, bought the kids a couple of long sleeved shirts from the Disney Store (stocking up for the trip back home)...went to Walden Books and got a book about Chicago for $10, it has some lovely photos in it. The kiddos each got a book (My Little Pony and Berenstein Bears). Pizza, Subway, and Chinese for dinner (the kids had Pizza, I had Chinese, Chuck had Subway), and all three are sleeping soundly now. I thought I'd hop and post my Friday post. I should have pics soon, I'm working on it (Halloween). Tomorrow I'm hoping to take the kids to see "Bee Movie", but since we went to the Disney Store and the book store we may not have the spare $ to do it. Maybe next week :) We'll see! Don't forget this weekend is daylight savings time!

Halloween & Thursday...

Halloween was pretty good for us this year. We had, as you probably know, Spiderman and Princess Aurora (Sleeping Beauty). They had a ton of fun dressing up and Logan didn't even mind wearing the mask. Of coarse we got rained out, elected to take them to the pit (aka Mall), and they got not-so-much stuff there. I have pics, but I'm working on figuring out how to edit them in a new system I have...so it could be a few days before the debut. When we got home from the mall the rain had stopped so I took them for a walk around the block. They were diggin' it ;)

Today, Thursday, nothing too special. They went to the library as usual and got some new books....we read every single one of them before bed lol. Chuck took them for a walk when he got home (his hours are 4a-2p ish). Well they got a good distance away and the skies opened up and poured rain on them. I thought it was quite funny...he didn't see the humor LOL. Oh well, they seemed to have had fun though.

The kids have been doing pretty well with clean-up and their little list of chores. They get a sticker daily if they complete 'most' of the tasks on the list. We put in 'clean up music' and they go to it! Logan takes a little more encouragement, but he gets there. I have discovered though that they truly need a break from one another. They are starting to fight and get on each others nerves more and more lately. So, maybe it's time to seperate them for a day (daddy/Raegan and mommy/Logan this time). We'll see :)