Happy Holidays

I'm in the mists of being off work for 13 days...I have to go back on Wednesday and I am hard core dreading it.  BLAH.  I've reached full lazy mode though in the past few days and quite honestly it was much needed.

Christmas was awesome this year, Addison is the perfect age for the excitement of presents.  She may not be old enough to understand the rest of Christmas but boy oh boy does the girl love presents!  She was adorable ripping things open, getting excited hoping that the next present was pajamas too.  Of course as soon as one was open she was ready to rip into the next one.  We, Santa, got her a Doll house which has been a huge hit, as well as the new kitchen from grandma, her new sparkly LED shoes from grandma, her stick horse, her magnetic dress up doll who she calls barbie, anything she got that had Dora on it and her dollies.  The girl is spoiled rotten!  We had lots of Christmases to celebrate with our families and she actually did great for skipping naps, refusing to sleep in the car on the drive to ohio for more than 30 minutes even after waking up SUPER early on Christmas day..you really never would have known by how well she did all day.

and while we were in Ohio for Christmas we got hit with a big snow storm so we took some time to throw together some random snow attire (Browns hat..eek!) and made a make shift snow man in the not so packing snow.  Addison lasted about 15 minutes before a total cold hands break down.  To be fair those gloves were not meant for real snow!  

Now we are de-Christmasing the house sniff, sniff... I love the holiday decor.  Time for some pink/red/hearts I suppose!

Thoughts on the New Year and a New Photo Challenge

My friend Kristi posted this little challenge that she is going to do for the New Year, I figured with my lack of blogging skills lately I'd join in for the month.

So day one, here I am.

I realize I never made a post reflecting on the past year and making aspirations for the new year.  2011 brought many good things, baby girl's first birthday bash, a family reunion that hadn't happened in years, a great little vacation up north, and a whole year of watching our little monkey grow and change so much, a wedding for my brother to his long time girlfriend (which I know I haven't even posted about yet!) just to name a few.  2011 also brought the loss of two very important people in my life first my uncle Jimmy to bile duct cancer in March and the hardest, the sudden and unexpected loss of my own Dad in September.  It's been a tough year that's for sure.  I had to deal with things that I never thought about having to do in my life surely nothing I thought about doing anytime soon.  But tough times make tough people, and the outpouring of love and support made me take a step back and be thankful for all that I do have.  So in the new year my goal is just to appreciate the things that I have cause really it is the little things in life that mean the most.