Just kidding. We don’t need it—we love the family… Just wanted to make sure we were stocked before things closed plus leave enough for the next visit. Plus we always have to stop at Glen’s. (Sorry, it will always be Glen’s to me.)
I love that they’re each snuggling with a cat pillow. Katie has Bella and Owen has Charlie.
Today we got our first significant snow of the season. Katie was at her friend Caden’s house and his mom sent pics!
Every so often I check the kid’s phones just to make sure nothing bad is going on. Tonight I found this on Katie’s phone, back from when Charlie died.
And Tom got some Owen cuddle time.
The kids got us up at 7am on the dot—it would be earlier but we let them have their devices precisely so they let us sleep in until 7! I didn’t take any pics because I wanted to stay in the moment. The kids were both happy.
Then Tom and I enjoyed a morning dip in the hot tub!
Maggie enjoyed her spot on the couch.
Then we went to Anna and David’s for dinner and a movie.
Friends, an amazing pizza (from leftover fish tacos that that boys gave me grief about but IT was freaking delicious!), and our first dip in the hot tub! Merry Christmas!
This pic makes the hot tub look soooo much bigger than it really is. It would be a stretch to have three adults in it at the same time—four would have everyone’s knees touching for sure!
And then we did the Saran wrap ball for the kids! We had about $60 worth of stuff in it!
And it was great fun…
Until two kids weren’t getting anything.
Don’t worry, they all ended up with stuff—and some trading was done. But it definitely wasn’t perfect.
And then I tried to get a Santa hat picture but Katie wasn’t really being cooperative. Oh well—it just makes memories!
And of course they loved it!
Why yes, that’s an inflatable hot tub! Tom accepted a job yesterday (YAYYYYY!) so when we walked into Costco and saw this, we knew it was meant to be! (It also wasn’t nearly as expensive as we thought it would be.)
We are planning to get a real hot tub in the future, but that requires a lot of work first since we want to redo the whole backyard and deck.
So it was inside to warm up so we could inflate it, and then Tom rolled it outside, and now it’s sitting on the deck waiting to be filled and heated so we can use it Christmas morning!
Maggie could care less about the hot tub LOL.
Honey loves to do this when you’re sitting at the table—eating or not. She’s so dang cute.
Hug those you love. Tell them you love them. Take photos. Take videos so you have their voice.
Our dear friend Nancy passed away unexpectedly today. She was an absolutely amazing person and we are SHOOK and our hearts are breaking—but even more so for her fiancé David (they just got engaged this fall).
She was legit THE nicest person you could ever meet. Every minute with her was enjoyable. Tom loved her so much after meeting her that he declared she would be wife #2 if anything ever happened to me and it was the running joke for many years (until she met David)!
She will be missed by many, far and wide. Our world will never be the same without her.
I didn’t want to go to bed at 10 because Maggie had just laid down on me—so I just thought I would stay there for 15–20 minutes until she moved.
She didn’t move for hours. I finally jiggled her around 1AM and she still didn’t move. So I moved her up on my chest like this.
She finally moved about 1:30am! I enjoyed every minute of it!
Needless to say we reached this age a loooong time ago.
The last time we officially had friends help move us was back in 2003 (from our first house to our second house—a mile away and we didn’t have much stuff yet.)Tom actually moved most of it on a borrowed trailer and then our realtor helped unload a bunch of stuff.
I’m very thankful that through all our years in the military they paid for all of our moves. I can’t imagine doing it on our own.
Do y’all know what this is?! I made it for Katie for Christmas!!
I honestly don’t know what the official name for it is, but I’ve been calling it a Saran ball. It’s just a bunch of tiny gifts all rolled up inside a crap ton of cling wrap. I figured she’d have more fun unwrapping this monstrosity than a few little packages of hair clips, mini nail polishes, fidget popits, and hair ties.
I was just going to make one for her…but I had so much fun doing it that I am now going to make one for Owen, too—though his might be heavier on the candy and lighter on the hair accessories!
And I think we’re going to do one for all four kids…make it into a game. Apparently people are supposed to unwrap with oven mitts while someone tries to roll doubles—and they get to keep everything they unwrap during that time! We shall see!
This was a week ago. I’m behind. /shrug
Well, y’all. I tried it. I give myself a B-.
I’ll have to go back and watch her video—I just looked at the photos. I thought I did better until I actually did a side-by-side. And I know I didn’t even attempt the wing because that would have been a recipe for disaster! BUT! It’s still a million miles ahead of where I used to be and what I was able to do. And this took just 14 minutes which isn’t bad at all!!
So…I gave myself a B- because it didn’t really turn out the same as the original/comparison look. But if you don’t compare it to anything and just judge on its own merit? I’d give myself an A for sure.
Lesson learned? DON’T FALL INTO THE COMPARISON TRAP!
Movie night with the kids…
And then she moved…
And then this happened.
I am constantly amazed at how long this makeup lasts! My lipstick is mostly gone, but that’s only because I didn’t gloss as much as I should have all day!
I rarely wear pink. Pink clothes don’t jump out at me. I never pick pink as a color for anything.
And pink shadows were included in that.
Until I started wearing SeneGence ShadowSense. And now I want ALLLLL the pinks. Especially if they are shimmery. 💗
That’s one of the many things I love about my little “side gig” — it has caused me to expand my horizons in so many different ways.
So I might as well get some work done on my phone because I refuse to interrupt the cuddle.
I’ve been up — and working — since about 8:30 so I’m not a TOTAL slacker. But I just want to show you a “naked” face pic so you can see what my skin actually looks like without makeup. I swear it looks like I have a filter on but I don’t. Pinky promise.
If you wish and dream for better skin, I’m your girl. You can shop day or night here!
We hope to watch them all by the time the kids go back to school in January!