If you haven’t been on Goodreads.com, it is a great site where you can keep track of all of the books you have read and want to read. What is even better is you can see what books your friends are reading and how they have rated them. I have gotten a lot of great… >> View Post
Archives for December 2012
December Wrap Up / 2012 Resolutions Wrap Up
1. In December I took it easy and only ran 24.3 miles, but for the entire year of 2012 I ran the most ever… 554.1 miles! I was really excited to make it to 550! I completed 2 5K’s, 1 10K and 2 half marathons! I PR’ed on the second 5K and the second half… >> View Post
December Wrap Up / 2012 Resolutions Wrap Up
1. In December I took it easy and only ran 24.3 miles, but for the entire year of 2012 I ran the most ever… 554.1 miles! I was really excited to make it to 550! I completed 2 5K’s, 1 10K and 2 half marathons! I PR’ed on the second 5K and the second half… >> View Post
Chocolate Chip -Pudding- Cookies
Well, I completed my December goal… I wanted to bake a different cookie recipe every weekend in December. One weekend I did do mints, but… that’s ok! This weekend I almost got lazy and skipped… but, I have been wanting to try a chocolate chip recipe I saw on Pinterest where you add vanilla pudding…. >> View Post
Easy Bake Oven Experiment
It is the weekend after Christmas, and we have spent a lot of time opening and enjoying the kids toys. Autumn has been just ITCHING to try out her new Easy Bake oven. She has been dragging the box around, trying to open it, etc. SO, I promised her we would try it out this… >> View Post
First Snow
Yesterday afternoon it started snowing for the first time this winter in St. Louis, so of course the kids wanted to go out in it on Saturday morning. Autumn told me to take her picture on the porch before she stepped into the white stuff, so I did. She’s such a cutie these days. It… >> View Post
Christmas Morning
On Christmas morning, we celebrated with my family by enjoying each others company, a breakfast all prepared by Brian and we opened some presents. While Brian was prepping breakfast, my Mom snapped a darling photo of me and the kids.My Mom and Nathan… Autumn wouldn’t cooperate.Breakfast included a hot chocolate bar! Even the crock pot… >> View Post
Christmas Eve
Every year we read Twas The Night Before Christmas, and well, this year… Nathan read it! I cannot believe my boy can read so well now… if I had put this book in front of him last summer, he wouldn’t have been able to read it as well.I let each of them pick out 3… >> View Post
Bake Day
Every year before Santa comes to visit we bake COOKIES for him… I used to try a different recipe every year, but the last few years we have stuck to ICED GINGERBREAD and SUGAR COOKIES. They are just the perfect Christmas cookies, and… I have found the bestest eva recipes for them that we cannot… >> View Post
Fun with our Christmas Play Doh
Every year since Elfie has been coming to our house, he has brought the kids brand new play doh for their Christmas play doh set (its just little cutters and shapes in Christmas designs)… what makes it even more fun is I keep the shapes they’ve made and let them harden, then throw them in… >> View Post
Stockings Filled with Gifts
Elfie decided to return from the North Pole with presents for our stockings the day before Christmas Eve. I always enjoy doing the stockings a little early… it just makes it a little more sweeter.The kids came home from their Dad’s to find the stockings on the couch filled with presents… Elfie had left another… >> View Post
Nathan’s Christmas Party at School
Nathan had his school party the same day as Autumn, but in the afternoon… I hope to make it to his next school party… I helped in planning the game and found a cute game on Disney’s website called Jack Frost’s Not Lost. They did a $5.00 gift exchange at the party and Nathan sure… >> View Post