Tuesday's here again and the last Tuesday of January!!! Where did the month go?!
Things I am thankful for this week:
1. Sleep Talkin' Man, (http://sleeptalkinman.blogspot.com) he has kept me in stitches after my siblings introduced him to me!! HYSTERICAL! Seriously, check him out...he talks in his sleep and his wife records what he says each night and blogs it. Plain and simple and FUNNY! Be warned though, he does use profanity in his sleep and she blogs it as he says it, so there you go. But if you can get past the profanity. FUNNY!!!
2. Camden is using his words SO much more and is mimicking sounds more consistently! The other day he said a 4 word sentence even!! He had crawled in bed with me one morning upon waking and snuggled in next me and laid there for a minute when he suddenly looked over where Bob normally sleeps (but he was absent due to being on nights and hadn't gotten home quite yet) and he pops his head up and says: "Uh-oh mommy, where's daddy?" It was really really cute and I got all excited and praised him like crazy! :-) I'm just so thankful the tubes are doing their job and that he can actually HEAR!
3. FREE USE OF OUR REC CENTER!!! Why didn't I get my butt in gear and figure out I could work out in the morning before Bob went to work sooner?!?! I've been religiously working out since 2 weeks or so before Thanksgiving and I LOVE IT! I have a work out buddy, who I'm also ALWAYS thankful for and we have a great time! We workout at 5 am M-F for half an hourish and then I come home and do a 20 minute Yoga DVD on my own. When Bob is on nights, I just go in the afternoon when he gets up before work. It has been working out BEAUTIFULLY! I feel good and I actually started RUNNING!!!! WHAT?!?! I KNOW!!! I've never ever ever been a runner never liked it never wanted to do it. So one day a couple a weeks ago I decided I was going to give it a try and see if I could do it. I hopped on the treadmill and did it! I couldn't believe it...I am now able to run for 25 minutes straight on the treadmill and I'm trying to get myself ready for a 5K...my first EVER!! I'm excited!
4. HAWAII TRIP!!! Bob has officially scheduled the entire trip! We are BOOKED and ready to go! April 29th can't get here fast enough!!! YIPPEE!!! Can you tell I'm excited?? hehe!
5. My sister has made the list yet again!! She is coming this weekend and will be watching the boys for me Saturday while I go to visit with my two girlfriends in Lawrence! Thank you sister! LOVE YOU SO MUCH!!! P.S. The boys are ALWAYS excited to see their Aunt Chwissy!!! :-)
6. My boys. Even after I yell at them, (then I apologize, I'm so bad about losing my temper too quickly...something I'm TRYING to work on) they are quick to forgive me and I love them so much for loving me. They are the best! Thank you boys for giving your parents the unconditional love they need and cherish and know it is goes both ways!
Man, I was wordy today! I guess I had a lot to say. :-) Thanks for checking in!
Tuesday, January 26, 2010
Tuesday, January 19, 2010
GratiTuesday!
Things I am thankful for this week:
1. My parent educator! She always has such good/fun ideas! Yay!
2. Combined bday parties...it was over and done with in a an afternoon. I will be sad the day we have to seperate the bdays...but for now it is nice to just do one big party!
3. My health. I am knocking on wood that I continue to stay healthy thru the rest of the "cold/flu" season.
4. Play dates...tomorrow we are getting back on schedule with these "dates"...it is nice to get the kids out of their everyday drone...plus it gives us mom's a break!
5. Girls night! I got invited to a "Girl's Night" this Friday by one of the mom's of a fellow preschooler! I'm uber excited to meet some new people and just have a fun and relaxing evening! Thanks honey for letting me go on your one day off this week! :-) Love you!
1. My parent educator! She always has such good/fun ideas! Yay!
2. Combined bday parties...it was over and done with in a an afternoon. I will be sad the day we have to seperate the bdays...but for now it is nice to just do one big party!
3. My health. I am knocking on wood that I continue to stay healthy thru the rest of the "cold/flu" season.
4. Play dates...tomorrow we are getting back on schedule with these "dates"...it is nice to get the kids out of their everyday drone...plus it gives us mom's a break!
5. Girls night! I got invited to a "Girl's Night" this Friday by one of the mom's of a fellow preschooler! I'm uber excited to meet some new people and just have a fun and relaxing evening! Thanks honey for letting me go on your one day off this week! :-) Love you!
Monday, January 18, 2010
Happy Birthday Katrina!!
My niece Katrina turned 6 today!!!
Katrina Nicole Long
Born: 01/18/04
Time: 3:54pm
Weight: 6lbs 4.6oz
Length: 19 3/4"
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Katrina Nicole Long
Born: 01/18/04
Time: 3:54pm
Weight: 6lbs 4.6oz
Length: 19 3/4"
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Tuesday, January 12, 2010
GratiTuesday!
Things I am thankful for this week:
1. My family. I love that we are now close enough for a quick visit whenever we want! LOVE IT! We had a good time seeing my mom & dad and sis. Played some games, watched some movies and cooked some yummy meals! Yay for family time!
2. Pediatric dentists! Ours is awesome...they are so good with the boys and they both will let them clean their teeth! It amazes me EVERYTIME...Camden went yesterday and didn't cry once! It truly suprised me!
3. My neck pillow that i got for Christmas from my Aunt Mendy & Uncle Jim...it really has been awesome this week...I just warm it up in the microwave and put it on my shoulders and it not only warms me up, it released the tension in my shoulders from working out, etc! LOVE IT! Thanks guys!
4. Internet...not sure how anything was done before the internet...Bob and I have pretty much planned our entire Hawaii trip online! How cool is that?!
5. Bob's job. I'm still so thankful that Bob got this job that has allowed me to continue to stay home with the boys and for the pay raises he has been getting that is allowing us to take our honeymoon to Hawaii in April/May! SO EXCITED!
6. The "heat-wave" that has come to Kansas! I might actually get to see my friend Sarah this week! YAY!!! I'm having major withdrawals and can't wait to get back to our play dates!
1. My family. I love that we are now close enough for a quick visit whenever we want! LOVE IT! We had a good time seeing my mom & dad and sis. Played some games, watched some movies and cooked some yummy meals! Yay for family time!
2. Pediatric dentists! Ours is awesome...they are so good with the boys and they both will let them clean their teeth! It amazes me EVERYTIME...Camden went yesterday and didn't cry once! It truly suprised me!
3. My neck pillow that i got for Christmas from my Aunt Mendy & Uncle Jim...it really has been awesome this week...I just warm it up in the microwave and put it on my shoulders and it not only warms me up, it released the tension in my shoulders from working out, etc! LOVE IT! Thanks guys!
4. Internet...not sure how anything was done before the internet...Bob and I have pretty much planned our entire Hawaii trip online! How cool is that?!
5. Bob's job. I'm still so thankful that Bob got this job that has allowed me to continue to stay home with the boys and for the pay raises he has been getting that is allowing us to take our honeymoon to Hawaii in April/May! SO EXCITED!
6. The "heat-wave" that has come to Kansas! I might actually get to see my friend Sarah this week! YAY!!! I'm having major withdrawals and can't wait to get back to our play dates!
Tuesday, January 05, 2010
GratiTuesday!
Things I am thankful for this week:
1. Amazon.com...what did we do before this website wonder?!
2. Routines...I'm not sure what I would do without them...keeps everything in order
3. Preschool back in session...get's Decovin out of the house and then Cam and I can go grocery shopping! Fabulous!
4. My boys being so close in age! We recently moved their beds into the same room and made the other room the "playroom!" They LOVE it and I do too! Still working on bedtime though...Camden is still in that "get out of bed 100 times" phase...and with Decovin being in the room it isn't helping much...so we have decided to put Camden down 15-20 minutes before Decovin...it worked wonders last night!! :-)
5. 4-wheel drive. So glad Bob's vehicles have this since he has to travel in all this nasty weather everyday...makes me feel better knowing the chances of him getting "stuck" somewhere are lessened! ;-)
6. Snuggles...my boys are awesome at it right now!
Here are the boys wrestling:
Me and Camden just got done wrestling:
Decovin getting ready to go play in the snow!:
Decovin getting in the "cave" daddy and him dug out of a snow drift in our back yard:
Daddy pushing Decovin on a cardboard sled...we're ghetto like that! (Thanks Christy for providing not only a shop vac for bob but for an awesome ghetto sled too!: LOL!
Sunday, January 03, 2010
Happy New Year!!
Wow, it 2010!! It's been awhile since I posted last...a lot has happened since then!
Christmas has come and gone and so has the year! Wow! We had an AWESOME Christmas this year and we were able to make it to our destination amid the blizzard we had the night before! As a matter of fact on Christmas Eve our power kept going off and on for a solid 2 hours in the middle of the day and it worried me that I wouldn't be able to get my baking done! But it finally came back on and stayed on until 10pm and then it went out and we finished up our packing via flashlight. Around 2:30 am I woke up with a VERY COLD head...I sat straight up and said: "is our power still off??!!" Bob got up and checked the thermostat and said it was 54 degreess!! GAH! So he braved the weather and bundled up and got some wood to start a fire in our fireplace (that we have never used since we bought this place and knew it probably should have been properly cleaned out before, but we were desperate at this point!)...meanwhile I went to put more blankets on the boys (who were perfectly warm and in peaceful slumber!) WHOOHOO for good circulation! haha! Anyway...Bob finally got inside with all the wood and was trying to start the fire (we only had ONE newspaper as we had JUST set out recycling two days prior and it was the Burlington paper at that...so like 6 pages!!) and it wasn't working wasn't working and then BAM, lights came back on! Phew! So we had a warm Christmas morning afterall!
It was really cute to see the boys come down the stairs that morning! Their eyes were in total amazement that Santa actually had come to our house! Camden belted out a low and slow "WOOOOAAAAHHHH" and Decovin just stared! LOL! Then the excitement of it all started. Santa brought them a really cool basketball goal and scooter and a fun bouncy ball with handles...GOOD TIMES!
Bob and I also faired well with an ipod, nintendo ds, boston red sox gear, and other randomness...I did get my Chi flat iron! YES!! It was a good year!
We spent Christmas afternoon and the next two days with Bob's parents...we only got the van stuck once in his g'parents driveway of death, but other than that, we didn't really have a problem.
On the 26th, Bob and I celebrated our 10 year anniversary! It's crazy to think we have been married this long...it seems like just yesterday...but this is a good thing, b/c I still love him and I couldn't imagine life without him!! We were going to out on a date but ended up not going due to weather...so we ordered pizza with his family and we drove to the store to pick it up...that's how we roll, classy style! Really it's not a big deal b/c we are going to Hawaii in April/May to celebrate. We never had a honeymoon so this is it, 10 years later! I'm so excited. We have our plane tickets booked and our first four nights booked...we will be finishing up the bookings over the next week or so! Totally excited!
For New Year's Christy came over, as is our tradition now and we snacked on cheese, crackers, and sausage, creamcheese ball of goodness, chex mix, margarita's, chocolate, and little smokies! Can you say belly ache?! LOL! It was fun and Decovin actually made it to midnight! Camden went to bed at normal bedtime hour! LOL! It was fun!
Tomorrow is back to the grind. Bob is back to work and I'm now in prepping for two little boys' bdays! It's a crazy time of year for the Plummer's! LOL! I can't believe they will be 4 and 2 already! *sigh*
Sorry for the long post! Hope you all had a safe and happy holiday season!
Christmas has come and gone and so has the year! Wow! We had an AWESOME Christmas this year and we were able to make it to our destination amid the blizzard we had the night before! As a matter of fact on Christmas Eve our power kept going off and on for a solid 2 hours in the middle of the day and it worried me that I wouldn't be able to get my baking done! But it finally came back on and stayed on until 10pm and then it went out and we finished up our packing via flashlight. Around 2:30 am I woke up with a VERY COLD head...I sat straight up and said: "is our power still off??!!" Bob got up and checked the thermostat and said it was 54 degreess!! GAH! So he braved the weather and bundled up and got some wood to start a fire in our fireplace (that we have never used since we bought this place and knew it probably should have been properly cleaned out before, but we were desperate at this point!)...meanwhile I went to put more blankets on the boys (who were perfectly warm and in peaceful slumber!) WHOOHOO for good circulation! haha! Anyway...Bob finally got inside with all the wood and was trying to start the fire (we only had ONE newspaper as we had JUST set out recycling two days prior and it was the Burlington paper at that...so like 6 pages!!) and it wasn't working wasn't working and then BAM, lights came back on! Phew! So we had a warm Christmas morning afterall!
It was really cute to see the boys come down the stairs that morning! Their eyes were in total amazement that Santa actually had come to our house! Camden belted out a low and slow "WOOOOAAAAHHHH" and Decovin just stared! LOL! Then the excitement of it all started. Santa brought them a really cool basketball goal and scooter and a fun bouncy ball with handles...GOOD TIMES!
Bob and I also faired well with an ipod, nintendo ds, boston red sox gear, and other randomness...I did get my Chi flat iron! YES!! It was a good year!
We spent Christmas afternoon and the next two days with Bob's parents...we only got the van stuck once in his g'parents driveway of death, but other than that, we didn't really have a problem.
On the 26th, Bob and I celebrated our 10 year anniversary! It's crazy to think we have been married this long...it seems like just yesterday...but this is a good thing, b/c I still love him and I couldn't imagine life without him!! We were going to out on a date but ended up not going due to weather...so we ordered pizza with his family and we drove to the store to pick it up...that's how we roll, classy style! Really it's not a big deal b/c we are going to Hawaii in April/May to celebrate. We never had a honeymoon so this is it, 10 years later! I'm so excited. We have our plane tickets booked and our first four nights booked...we will be finishing up the bookings over the next week or so! Totally excited!
For New Year's Christy came over, as is our tradition now and we snacked on cheese, crackers, and sausage, creamcheese ball of goodness, chex mix, margarita's, chocolate, and little smokies! Can you say belly ache?! LOL! It was fun and Decovin actually made it to midnight! Camden went to bed at normal bedtime hour! LOL! It was fun!
Tomorrow is back to the grind. Bob is back to work and I'm now in prepping for two little boys' bdays! It's a crazy time of year for the Plummer's! LOL! I can't believe they will be 4 and 2 already! *sigh*
Sorry for the long post! Hope you all had a safe and happy holiday season!
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