I'm blogging from my living room!

This laptop thing is great! Yesterday I spent most of the day "networking" our computers. I was so excited to get wireless connections up and working all by myself. I can take the laptop anywhere in the house and get internet and send things to my printer. How cool is that!

We normally spend thanksgiving with my Mom's side of the family, but this year chose to head off with Dad's side. Had some relatives up from Florida that we rarely get to see. One cousin came with his wonderful wife and their new little one. She had this fabulous chair that Carter is pictured in. It's a Bumbo! If you know anyone who is pg or has a new little one you gotta tell them about this, it is really fabulous. Carter is just 8 weeks old and he can sit right up in this chair. We don't leave him in it very long, but once he can support his head a little better I know this will become his favorite spot. Being flat on your back all the time must get old.

So anyways... these pictures are for Grandma Mary who really missed us on Thanksgiving, we missed you too. She sent home some wonderful treats for my monsters, new PJ's! Now who doesn't love new PJ's?? Thank you Grandma Mary! 

Mini Tote! 

First post from the laptop!

Got this hot new toy online, yipee! Now I just have to call tech support to find out how to transfer all the email addy's from old to new. Anyone out there know how to do it??? Is it easy???

Ok so I went back to "work" today. Well not really I just went back to the daycare gig. Everything is going quite well, my extra guy is fitting right in to our hectic schedule. So now I really should start working on my christmas cards, maybe tonight...

So you all heard about shopping friday, let me tell you about Sunday! I got the coolest thing for Linds' stocking. Have you seen the Mini Tote? Check it out, is that not the cutest thing you have ever seen! I am going to fill it with new writing tools and maybe a glue stick or two.

Happy Saturday All!

Hopefully everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving, I know that we did. Fabulous meal, fabulous time with the family and I even got a couple interesting photos. Not sure what I am going to do with them yet.

So DH and I (along with Carter) ventured out yesterday for a shopping extravaganza. We got the kids gifts all finished, now the rest of the family stuff is up to me. I don't really mind doing the shopping I am a shop-a-holic. I just really like for Jeff to come when we get things for the kids. I am very excited for Chistmas morning, we should have two very happy children.

And as for today I am very happy myself, we also picked up an early gift for us. I thought about going through my archives are seeing how many times I have said I need a new computer, cuz you've all heard my say it lots. Well we are now the proud owners of a laptop! Very cool, only a few problems. I can't get on the internet with it, waiting on a call from our ISP as I type, and I couldn't load my photoshop. That I think will have to wait until Monday when I can call their support line. All in all I am having fun adding pictures to it and playing a little. We also upgraded our completely out of date all in one printer thing. Check this out, we got an HP7180 the sales guy said it is their top of the line "home" scanner stacked with the top of the line photo printer. I haven't had a chance to take it out of the box yet but boy it looks awesome. Jeff's Dad shot a huge buck this morning and he took tons of pictures, after I am done with this post I am going to hook the printer up and print some pics on the old and the new and compare quality.

And for those of you intersted in some venison, I will be emailing you personally and we can work out some details. (Dh did give me permission to share.)

Here ya go, pictures of the baby book...


Baby Book First Page

Carter's Info Page 

With Momma 

Snuggle Page 

Sleeping Page 

Bath Page 

A little story for Thanksgiving...

Some of you may have seen/heard this one before, my daughter brought it home with her from Kindergarten and I remeber seeing it when K was in Kindergarten too. I just really like it and wanted to share for the holiday.

The Legend of the Five Kernels

The first winter the Pilgrims spent in their new home was very cold. Food was in short supply. Some days the food was so scarce that each person would only get five kernels of corn for the entire day. Spring finally came, they planted food and it grew. The Pilgrims survived this harsh winter and were very grateful. From then on, when a time of Thanksgiving came around, the Pilgrims put five kernels of corn on each plate to remind themselves of their blessings.

The first kernel reminds us of the autumn beauty all around us.
The second kernel reminds us of our love for each other.
The third kernel reminds us of how we are loved and cared for.
The fourth kernel reminds us of our friends.
The fifth kernel reminds us that we are a free people.

So as you join with your family and friends for this Thanksgiving holiday think of the five kernels and five things you are thankful for this year.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Fast Update

Gotta work at the LSS today so I am running around silly trying to get all my ducks in a row. Thanks for all the wonderful comments on my "diet". I may just have to take your advice Katie and toss that scale.

And yes Christine I really do want to get pictures of the book up, they should be coming soon. I am working on a couple pages that I want to get set before I start taking pics. Maybe I'll take some shots and post a few here and there for the next couple weeks.

Oh and one last excited note that I wanted to share cuz I am so silly. I placed a bid on ebay for the first time Sunday and well I won! How cool is that! So you probably want to know what I got, some fabulous new Bazzill Bling paper! Yes I am so totally silly. I can't wait to get it, no one out here has any and well I wanted to get one of each color, this seemed to be the best way. Anybody out there that has some, what do ya think???

Happy Monday!

And yes we are happy in our house this am! Why you ask, well this morning I put on jeans from before PG and they fit!!! Ok so they are old streched out ones, but a few weeks ago when I tried them on I could not get them zipped. Today I'm zipped and still breathing! So I am a total obsessive over weight issues, I've dealt with this since high school and well have you seen the comercials where women are walking around with a scale chained to their ankle? That is me, the scale rules the day at our house and it has been making me feel horrible lately. I am getting on that stupid treadmill everyday and still the numbers are not going down. Complained to DH couple nights ago and he says but you are getting skinnier, leaner, muscle weighs more than fat. Blah, blah, blah to me! Today I have decided to try harder and not let that stupid scale rule my life. Maybe if I just get on it once a week... I don't know. Any dieters out there with advice???

So besides my crazy dieting there has been lots going on in our world. Ya know blogging is very much like excerising for me, if I can't get around to doing for a day it turns into too manys days and then it is just so hard to go back to it. And I really miss blogging, kinda makes me feel more productive, like if I share what I've done I can say yes its good to me a SAHM, I don't just sit around and watch soap operas. So anyway I am back on the blog and I hope I can make time for it tomorrow and the next day, and the next...

We have really been busy over the last couple weeks. After I got the new stroller we had wonderful weather for the next four days and put lots of miles on. Then came the snow! YUCK, thank heaven that it didn't stick for too long. Just long enough for the kids to play and make some snowmen. Of course I ran off with a friend scrap shopping and my DH didn't think to take any photos! I really need to train him better! LOL.

A few other adventures we've had, took another trip to the outlet mall in the dells. Love that place, got some stuff for me and for Carter and a few x-mas gifts for the kids. Got tons of great gift ideas from Harry and David, would have loved to just buy their stuff but for some reason I could not justify the $$$. I'm not normally like that so it still puzzles me...

This past weekend was fabulous (this is my new word, use it way to much). Went to the Stamp expo in Madison, wasn't all that great, picked up a couple new toys. The highlight was the attractive young man doing make n takes at one of the boothes and also giving massages to those standing in line. Boy now that was FABULOUS! He even found us later a few isles down and gave my friend a second session. Really Chris I think he liked you!

Yesterday we also had a great day. Took the kids and went to Shannon's for some scrappin time and to show off Carter. I think both Shannon and Katie got their baby fixes, glad I could help. Didn't really get anything done but it was fun to see friends. We missed you Julie, but I am sure the three of you will have a blast at your Ali class in a couple weeks. (Wishing I could go). And yes we brought kids, they had a great time watching movies, and playing. I can't wait to do that again.

It's still quiet so I think I will check out everyone else's blogs. Later!

Got a new piece of "Equipment" this weekend!

So I have a totally wonderful best friend, she picked up this stroller for me on her way to visit. Thanks Judes! See my old stroller probably had 10,000+ miles on it and well it was just falling apart, not to mention that it was way squeaky and well just didn't quite roll smoothly anymore. I figure that I will totally get my $$ out of a new one, but you would never believe how hard it is to just find a simple no frills stroller that would work with my infant seat (borrowed from Judes). Searched all over locally with no luck so Judy offered to check the Mad town stores. She and her wonderful hubby found this one for me. I love it! Works like a charm and I think Carter likes it too! So happy that the weather is warming up enough for us to use it this week, hope that we can stay in the 50's for a few more weeks. I love pushing the stroller for hours, hate that horrible treadmill! Ok I have been forced to type one handed, by a squacking little one so i better deal with that. 

Happy Halloween! 

Jack-O-Lanterns 

Pumpkin coloring 

Pumpkin carving