I am getting a little excited here! I have honestly got a lot crossed off my list in the past two weeks! I am way proud of myself! I deserve an A for this! Michael cannot believe how fast things are getting done. I can't either!
Friday we finally went around and got our tree! We had about 3 we were looking at and we finally decided on one! I am way excited about it! I love Christmas. It's may favorite season (minus the snow) and I wish it would last a lot longer then it does. I can do without the gifts and that jazz. I just love the meaning, the music, the lights, the movies, the family time, all of it. Anyways, when we went to pick up our tree we also found an awesome train to go around it at the bottom. Jake wants to play with it so bad and gives attitude every time we say "no" and tell him we have to wait till we put up the tree. He was so excited that we bought one though. I know he will love it! We also got a big dent in our Christmas shopping started on Friday. Yes, I know it sounds early, but we have to have it done. I do not want to leave Michael in charge of it come December and I also wouldn't wish that on anyone to have to go out alone for a lot of shopping. We got home after a very productive evening, ate dinner, and I will not lie, crashed. I was exhausted. This week did me in.
Saturday we got up early as usual, had a fantastic breakfast, hit up Starbucks and went out shopping again! We now only have 2 more kids to buy for and 3 adults! Rock on! Jake is completely done! The sales are insane already. We even got wrapping paper and all the trimmings so I can start on that this week! I figure that if I wrap as I go, it will be a lot easier. David also came home for the first time in 2 months. The kid has been MIA for way too long. He looked like it too. We took Amber's photos in the afternoon and I felt it went pretty well. She didn't want anything "senior pose" like, so it's interesting to get her in her own element. Jeff being there really helped. He got her to laugh at the right times. We then stopped by the rents to check up on them and talk about the Iowa game a little bit. Jake will make any excuse to stop by my parents house. I think it's cute. He is very into my dad right now. He talks about him at home all the time. The boys watched football and played their game the rest of the afternoon. I cleaned. I got 3 more things crossed off my list! Check and mate! We had a pretty low key evening of pizza and a movie. We stayed up later due to gaining an hour of sleep. I tell you what, I could have gone to bed at 9 instead of 11:30. I was beat.
Sunday we woke early, went to Perkins for a fantastic breakfast, went to church, got our grocery shopping in, and then headed back home. I wish 'falling back' would actually work on kids. Instead of the normal 6:30 wake up call, we got a 5:30. You can't blame the kid, he doesn't understand it yet. Ugh. I wish they did though. This afternoon I got the pantry cleaned out (another item off my list), filled about 2 body bag trash bags full of junk, and went through all the food in all the cupboards in the house. My dad gave me a call to help with taking some photos in the afternoon so I then decided to finish my 3 loads of laundry and headed out to do that. We had dinner at Michael's parents house. We got a few outfits that Michael wore when he was a baby. It's so cute. I think it will be fun to take a few pictures of Baby J in them. Hopefully they will fit. Michael and David were pretty small for awhile. We will have to see. I also got a sneak peak of Baby J's blanket from Marilyn. Oh my word. Amazing. She went all out. None of the other grandkids have a blanket like this. I love it. I can't wait till I'll be able to have a baby to wrap in it! We finally got home to watch the Packers beat up on the Cowboys. No surprise there. Those Cowboys are sucking it up this year. We took some time to put up our new tree during the beat down. I love it!!! It's taller then our old one, that is for sure. I think I'm going to donate it to Goodwill if we can. I am not sure if they take Christmas trees or not. We will see. I will decorate it during the week this week. I figured we could let it "relax" a little on it's own since it is new this year before we attack it with our decor. I could just sit here and stare at it. It's relaxing.
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