It’s Many New Things For Us This New Year!

Wow! A lot of things have been happening lately!  We spent Christmas with our families.  The boys had a blast playing with cousins and spending time with their grandparents.

Ed is back at work.  Nicholas started school today.  Christian started staying home with me everyday.  I started a new job on Monday.

See, I told you…crazy times!!

Work is work for Ed.  The one bad thing is that his January schedule is, for lack of better words, SUCKING.  He is going to be gone for 3 months this spring, plus this month has him working nights for almost a week and a half (spread out over the entire month).  He’s got 3 days off this month.  YUCK.

Nicholas was excited to get back to school today.  I think he missed his friends.  He was all smiles going back today, and all smiles when Daddy picked him up. (Ed worked a night last night, so he was home this afternoon).

Christian is super excited because he is no longer going to parent’s day out.  He liked it, but he and I liked having him home more.  Since I will be working in the mornings at the nursery, he will come there with me instead.  He gets to play with the other kids while I work, and then he gets to be home with me the rest of the day. 

Speaking of my job, I started working at the nursery at our gym.  I am loving it.  It’s quite therapeutic to rock sweet babies to sleep and play with all the kids all morning.  Right now I am there MWF from 8 or 9am to noon.  Soon I will probably be there M-F 8-12.  This is exciting to me because I will be able to lessen my tutoring in the evening to just a couple hours a week.  That means ALL my work will be done before noon, and what could be better than getting paid to play with my own kid and a couple others?  I’m siked about it.

As I am writing this, the boys are playing their new “Carnival Games” Wii game.  I love it because both boys can play together and they enjoy it.  Soon I will be putting them into bed so I can go tutor for 2 hours.  Ed is out with friends watching the Longhorns play Alabama for the title.  Go Horns! 

Tomorrow is another school day (and work day for me).  I am looking forward to it!

Happy Halloweenie!

Wow! It’s been a while!

What’s going on with us??  Well, we have all been good!  Let me show you our lives in pictures for the past couple months.

First, we have the redecorating of the boys room.  This was fun and took two days.  They love it now. :)

Next we have messy marker boy.  I cannot leave him alone for 30 minutes while on the computer if markers are near, apparently. :)  Don’t worry, he hasn’t done this again.  He is usually really good, and I suppose this is a small and minor mess considering the amount of time he had.  Thank goodness he is not more creative.  I definitely remember coloring my walls instead.  (oh, and these are washable)

This one is my little artist.  He loves to color and draw.  He does it everyday for at least an hour.  With his consistency, he should be our next Michelangelo by age 5. :)

In here somewhere, we took a trip to Central Texas.  Spent some time with both grandparents and took some pictures.

Yes, Mom…I just snuck in that picture.  We can always replace it with a better one later.  I have so few pictures of you, that I want to make sure I post it for the boys.

Before that trip, I did a little shopping.  I will post the pictures that Ed and I took of us, but they are on the other computer, and Ed’s asleep at the moment.

Anyway, here is my dress and shoes.  It really ended up working well, and was totally outside of my usual box.

Once we got back, we started our countdown to Halloween.  Here is our visit to the pumpkin patch this year.

 

Today is Halloween!  I will have more pictures to come.  Plus, I have some great shots of Ed and I.  You might have already seen them on my Facebook page.

 

Love you all!