All I want for Christmas is a Garbage Man!

If you know my Casey then you know that he is OBSESSED with trash trucks and garbage men. He saw a huge trash truck from Tonka at Sams Club back in Novemeber and ever since then that is all he talks about. The number one thing on his Christmas list was the garbage truck. He would tell me that if he could only have one thing it would be the garbage truck. Well good ole Santa came through! He was so excited to see it there under the fireplace. You see Grandmas house has two fireplaces and Santa left his gifts by the fireplace in the kitchen. The other gifts were in the living room by the other fireplace. When I asked Casey if he was happy, the only thing he said was "Where is the airplane I asked for?" Man I thought Santa had done good...Thank goodness Mommy and Daddy had the airplane covered. LOL!

New Christmas PJ's

Well we have survived yet another Christmas. This year we traveled to my mother's house in Mississippi. It is harder to be away at Christmas, especially when it comes to packing up the car and trying to fit everything in. The kids had a great Christmas. Every year my mother makes them pajamas to wear on Christmas Eve. This years batch were my favorite yet.
After attending Christmas Eve mass (where we were literally sitting on top of one another in the pew)LOL! We came home and had a great dinner with one of my parents friends. The kiddos didnt get to bed until after 10pm Christmas eve. Needless to say, Santa didnt get to bed before midnight. I have more stories to tell and photos so I will leave you with this story today and more for tomorrow.

Oh it never stops in this household

that is the bickering and fighting between Emily and Casey. Casey even got a note from Santa (via Timmy the elf on the shelf)telling him that he was being a bad boy. It seems like Casey and his sister are just in that "week before Christmas lets bug the crap out of Mommy and Daddy" mood. I never had a sibling when I was growing up so this is all new to me. Chris tells me that it is normal but I cant see how the tormenting and fighting is normal between these two. Hopefully once Christmas is over and the holidays have come and gone, then things will get better. Until then, my hair is getting grey just listening to these two. LOL!

This time of year I miss this alot...

SNOW! Even though I am hesitant about moving to Utah, I am very excited about seeing snow again. I never thought when I was walking across the mall at UMO, freezing my butt off, trying to get to an 8am class that I would say that I miss Snow and the cold weather. LOL! I just hope that we havent been in the south for so long that our blood has thinned. I can only imagine what Casey will think of the white stuff.
Emily and I were talking on the way to school and she said that she has come up with some important rules for Snow and that she will teach them to Casey. The number one rules was NEVER EAT YELLOW SNOW! LOL!! She is such a funny kid and comes up with some great things on her own.
I will leave you with these amazing photos that my Aunt Paula's friend, Pat took last New Years in Maine. I have these framed and hung in our home so we have a little piece of home with us.

His Favorite new thing

A few Christmas things have started to arrive at our house already. The kids opened some boxes from my dad. I was thinking they were going to be wrapped so I let them open the boxes. The gifts werent wrapped so they got there gifts right then and there. As you can see they both got "headlights" from LLBean. Casey Loves this thing. He marched around the living room telling me that this is just what I wanted for Christmas and that it was PERFECT! The light is harmless and doesnt make any noise but the one draw back is that it is BRIGHT!! It has LED lights in it and when Casey shines it at you, Watch out! You could go blind looking at that darn thing. Last night, (by chance) we realized that it can blink too. He looks like a little coal miner with this contraption on his head. So thanks Grampy Bryce for not sending a loud toy but we all may go blind before New Years. LOL!!

We have a visitor

IT seems that we have a visitor from the northpole in our house. He arrived in the mail the day before Thanksgiving and has been here since. He is an elf on the shelf. If you havent heard of this before, it is quite a cute idea. It is a little elf and a book. It seems that the elf was sent here from Santa to watch Casey. Everynight he flies back to the North Pole to tell Santa how good or how bad Casey was that day. The next morning he returns in a different place in the house. He has rules too. He cant be touched and he doesnt talk. You can talk to him and tell him things to tell Santa. When he first arrived we had to name him so Casey chose the name Timmy. For some of you that already know, Timmy is the name of his buddy who happens to be one of my friend's husband. They have quite a bond and he loves him to pieces.
Well back to the elf Timmy. He has shown up in some unusual places. The kids love trying to find him every morning before Emily leaves for school. Of course, Emily knows that it is me that is moving him and always tries to get out of me where he is but I dont budge. One morning he was hanging upside down from the ceiling fan in the living room. Another morning he was on a shelf in Casey's room. Yesterday he was in the bathroom. Which Casey didnt like because he didnt want Timmy watching him when he did his business. LOL! This morning he is in our Christmas tree.
This is such a cute little tradition to start with your kids if you havent already. I thank my aunt Popo who sent this to Casey and Emily.

I Have been a busy little bee....

I have been crafting lately. I think it take my mind off of all that I have to do with the move and the holidays. Today I finished my cookie sheet calendar. I have been wanting to do one of these for a couple of years now and had never gotten around to making one. I found a really cute one on pink paislee's blog and pretty much followed the directions but I chose to do mine in Making Memories Fa La La line. I wont say that it was a quick project because I have been working on it a little bit here and a little bit there. I finally pushed myself to finish it today. I am happy with how it turned out and now I can mark that off of my things to do list. I guess I better scrap some of my photos for the mini sketch course I am taking right now.