New Years Party!

Happy New Year!! We had a party at Tracie's last night to ring in 2009. It was the perfect way to celebrate the New Year. Good friends, good food, and some (several bottles of) very good wine! Rob and Tracie always throw the best parties. I have to say that this was the best yet! It was nothing like last year when I was sick on Tracie's couch all night!   (New Years Eve 2007)

In addition to Tracie, Rob, Hannah, and Kolton; Sandy, Chris, and Avery joined us for the party. J.C. also graced us with his presence.

I know, I know. You all want me to stop jabbering and show you some pictures.... your wish is my command!

Tracie with an evil grin as we popped open our first bottle of wine!

Lexi and Bianka playing Disney Sing It on the Wii. (Funniest thing to watch... EVER)

This is us fighting over the game Scattergories. This discussion got pretty heated. LOL :o)

I think we were boring Chris. Hehehe

You can't run and you can't hide.... I WILL eventually get your picture!

(If you didn't know this, Josh hates pictures...... unless they are with the girls.)

This is Tracie cleaning up the mess that I made. Somehow my wine glass jumped right out of my hand and hit the wall. Stupid possesed wine glass! I was going to drink that!!

I think that this picture was taken at the exact moment that Sandy caught up to Tracie and my wine consumption for the night.

This picture speaks for itself. You know that saying a picture is worth a thousand words? Well here you go!

Josh and the girls about two minutes before midnight.

CHEERS!!!

(Sparkling Grape Juice People!)

Chris kissing Avery at Midnight!

The night is winding down. I can't believe my kids made it this long!

Tracie, on the other hand, did not!

She is SO going to kill me!

Well here was my new year, honestly one of the best I can remember. I hope you all had one just as great!! :o)

Toy Shop Madness

This is the living room transformed into Bianka and Lexi's Christmas Wonderland! Let me tell you that this was not easy! Santa went a little overboard this year. I thought that he was oing to have to move the furniture to fit everything in there! It was all worth it to see the look an the girls' faces when they walked down thoses stairs.

The stockings were hung by the chimney with care.

"Stop taking pictures Mom, we want to open PRESENTS!!"

The presents drove our cats CRAZY!! They had no idea what to do. They were in the middle of everything all morning.

Lexi (who is 3) decided that the only thing that she was going to ask Santa for was Bunny Slippers. Yep.... Bunny Slipper! Let me tell you, Santa had a heck of a time finding them! But I guess she was a good girl because at the very last minute as if by miracle Santa found the coveted Bunny Slippers at Old Navy!

Bianka LOVES puzzles! This is one of about 10 puzzles she got this Christmas. This particular one was left for Bianka and her Daddy. They get a puzzle to do together every Christmas.

This Christmas was extra special because J.C., Nathaniel, and Perry joined us. I hope this is a tradition that we can keep up. I really enjoyed having our family there on Christmas morning.

YAY! All the presents are open and it is time to go to Meme and Papa's for more!

Santa went overboard at my Mom's house too. Geeze, our family must have been like flipping saints this year! :o)

I hope that you all had a wonderful Christmas and a very Happy New Year!!

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

I would like to wish all of you a very Happy New Year!! I hope that you all rang in the new year in style! Let me know what you did! I will be posting pictures of my (as usual) very interesting night as well as some great pics from Christmas!

Toodles! :o)

Chrissy

Gone Mac!

Well it is official! I am an idiot! Josh, my wonderful loving special perfect husband, bought me a MacBook for Christmas. I have no idea how to work the darn thing. So as soon as I figure it out I will post my pictures from Christmas. I hope everyone had an awesome Christmas and if I don't get to post before then a Happy New Year! 

Shop till you drop!

I had a very long yet fun day yesterday. I tagged along with Tracie and her friend Rebecca on their annual Christmas shopping excursion and it was, needless to say, interesting. I have so many comments/stories from yesterday that I must display them to you in a convenient bulleted list! YAY! I love lists!

• I had to meet them at 9 a.m. Yes, me up and out in public at 9 on a Saturday morning. Scary, I know.
• They trusted me to drive. A mistake on many levels. I will explain more later.
• Josh gave me cash, plus the debit card. MISTAKE!
• I spent almost as much money on junk food as I did shopping. I am still full almost 24 hours later. Uncomfortably full.
• We saw a guy with a tail in Macy's. No I am not joking, a TAIL!
• Hollister is the darkest most depressing store that I have ever been in. They must also have some sort of rule banning their employees from folding sweaters faster than one every three minutes. Either that or the guy checking us out was extremely obsessive compulsive.
• Tracie has shopping induced rage.
• This rage is probably brought on by the mean little elf that follows her into stores and snatches all of the sizes that she needs in EVERYTHING that she wants. I bet that damn elf was laughing his butt off. Poor Tracie couldn't find anything!
• Seasonal workers are cranky. One of them actually looked at me and said "Duh!" Like I was the idiot! I put my stuff on the belt at target and the cashier just looked at me and waved her hand forward. I had no idea what she was doing so I just gave her a look that must have screamed IDIOT! She then looked at me and tapped on her belt and said "Belt not working, SCOOCH IT" I scooched it and then she looked at me, laughed and said, "DUH". Oh my goodness I was peeved. I think the lady knew it too because she was overly nice to Tracie and Rebecca who were in line behind me.
• My family would have been very impressed that I did not bite that ladys head off and ask for her manager. I was on my best behavior. YAY me! Being around new people must be good for me.
• On top of the evil little size snatching elf that Tracie has following her she has also somehow pissed of Jack Frost. Everytime we go anywhere is snows and sleets and all of the roads freeze. I just have the misfortune of always wanting to drive. I think that I may have learned my lesson this time. It started snowing soon after we got there and did not stop until after we left.
• I hate driving in the snow. It scares the crap out of me. I am truly meant to live somewhere tropical.
• I had to give up my pathetic effort to drive on the slippery roads and let Tracie take the wheel. We pulled off to a gas station because I had to GO. I went in to get the key and the ever so sweet lady told me that the bathroom was out of order. I am convinced that she just want to see me pee myself. Merry Freaking Christmas! People are so cheery this time of year.
• Tracie went to get back on the interstate and drove for a good 90 seconds on the rumble strip before she looked at me with fear in her eyes and said "What is wrong with your car?!?". We laughed so hard that she had to pull over for another five minutes due to the laughing induced coughing fit that prevent her from taking a drink for the next half an hour.
• I was so nervous to drive home that Tracie had to drop me off and take my car home.

Sounds interesting doesn't it? All in all we had a blast. I never laugh as hard as when I am with Tracie. The very very sad part of the whole day was that I spent all of my money and I am still not done shopping! I have to go again next weekend, who wants to go with me? Let me know!

My baby is growing up! :o(

I took this picture of Bianka yesterday and she looks so grown up! It is a beautiful picture that makes me incredibly sad. Why do our kids have to grow up so fast? It is just not fair!

Do you know the muffin man?

It is truly feeling like Christmas in our house. We made our annual ginger bread house this week and it turned out quite nicely. This is the first year that it has stayed together without me cursing and crying. This was also the first year that little Lexi was able to help and to be honest we had a lot of fun. Bianka helped me assemble the house, I iced it, then both of the girls had their own side to decorate. Now I just have to keep the girls from eating eat long enough for everyone to see it!

Flashback!!!

I am so behind! I hate to post Halloween pics in December...but these are just to cute to keep stored in the black hole that is my computer. The girls had a blast this haloween. Paulla, Dylan, Jessie, and Makayla all came over to enjoy the festivities. The were soon followed by Sheena and Robbie. We had a ton of kids come to trick or treat and my girls went down our street twice. It is the middle of December and they haven't even put a dent in their candy!

Bianka was a black cat and in true Bianka style she had to have the whole effect...even her hair. I do not know if any of you have ever used the spray on black hair dye, but take it from me...if you haven't, DON'T! First of all it came off on everything her hair touched. I thought it was just no big deal because it washed right off.....HA yea right! At the end of the night I put the girls in the tub as usual, told Bianka to get her hair wet, and then it started. It took all of two seconds for the whole tub to turn black. Bianka was stained black and Lexi was crying like her sister had caught the plague. Now this must only happen with the black because Lexi's hair was pink and it came out like magic and never got on one thing. I ended up putting Bink in the shower and spraying her down like she was contaminated. It was a disaster. It took me three days to get all of the black spots out of the tub and shower. OK well I guess that was enough complaining for one post, enjoy the pictures! :o)

Just to be a kid again!

This is a picture of Lexi while I was shopping for Thanksgiving. What
would you give to be able to do that again? It must be a great life to
sleep whenever you want and be pushed around Walmart!

Lexi is hungry!!!!!

We have been waiting for 30 minutes at Bob Evans and we are
STARVING!!! What gives? If they don't feed my kids soon I am going to
be blogging from a police cruiser!

Beautiful, Just Beautiful!

I am so excited! A friend of mine took some fall pictures of the kids at my mom's house and I just got them back. I think that they are beautiful! (I am a little partial!) Let me know what you think! 

Bianka Goes to the Pumpkin Patch

Bianka went on her very first field trip last week to the Pumpkin Patch that is just out of town. Can you guys believe that my baby girl is old enough to be going on field trips? I went with her class and we had so much fun! Here are some picture for your viewing pleasure!

Here is Bianka with the pumpkin she picked from the patch.

This is the walking stick bug that FASINATED the kids.

Bink thought that this thing was really cool....why, I do not know!

Can we say school spirit??

I am the very last person you would have ever caught dead in a Boonville Pioneers t-shirt and I sure as hell would have NEVER been on the cheerleading team (OK so I was in 4th grade, for like 2 weeks, temporary loss of sanity) but my girls LOVE this stuff so I go along with it. Bianka was recently in the homecoming parade for our hometown team and she had the time of her life. She is all about the t-shirts and face painting and the Ra Ra girls. I have to admit, she looked SO cute! I am even kind of getting into this stuff. I took her and bought her all kinds of Bobcat stuff, and of course I had to have some too! LOL  Yep that would be me in that picture with Sandy and Stacy sporting all of my Bobcat gear and looking very "Bobcat-ish"! (Stop laughing, I can hear you laughing darn it! )

My husband is a dork!

Seriously! Look at this picture! I actually chose to marry this man,
what is wrong with me? All joking aside I love him. He treats me like
a princess and be us the best father I have ever seen (second only to
my own Daddy!). So I just wanted to acknowledge him for once. Love you
babe! :o)

I need some new books!

I went to Books-a-Million the other day and I am so sad. None of my very favorite authors have written any new books all year! Why in the world would ALL of my authors decide to take a break at the same time? They are probably all vacationing in Tahiti drinking some very yummy drink with an umbrella in it laughing because I have NOTHING to read! (Yes I do make myself sound VERY important, don't I? LOL) Do you know how hard it is to fall asleep without a book? I wonder if there is some way that I can sue the publishing company for causing my insomnia. Anyway just for kicks lets try to scrounge up some good reads. If anyone has any suggestions of a great book that I can read PLEASE let me know! :o) In the mean time I have picked up a new book called Slummy Mummy by Fiona Neill which seems promising so far. It is a British comedy about a businesswoman turned stay at home mom. Who knows, maybe I have found the next great "shopoholic" series. I'll let you all know!

Holy Guacamole! Or In This Case Potato!

So about a month ago Josh and I went to Ruby Tuesdays with some
friends and their kids. Everything was normal. By normal I mean that
the kids were fighting, drinks were being spilled, and my patience was
running short. Just a normal night out with the kids and our friends.
Bianka had, as usual, ordered a baked potato. For some reason Bianka
is a strange child who HATES french fries. Anyway when her food came
out the waitress looked a little funny. This is the picture of a
potato that came with the kids meal(yes I repeat, KIDS meal)at Ruby
Tuesdays. It was such an obsenely huge potato that I just felt the
need to take a picture of it, so now I am feeling the need to share it
with you. No need to thank me, I know how bad you all were wanting to
see a big potato picture today. LOL

We are so excited!

Yay! I am officially UNEMPLOYED! Yippeeeee! Today is my first day as a
certified bum, and I love it! I have no idea what to do with all of my
time! Today I have done nothing but hang out with Lexi. It has been a
great day, here is a picture of how excited Lexi is to have Mommy home.

Last Day of Work!! Yay!

Today is my last day and I am SO excited! I can't wait until tomorrow
when I have NOTHING to do. Yay!!!

Chrissy
chrissydeon@aol.com
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Lexi's first day of preschool!

My baby is growing up! She did so well this on her first day. She was
excited to make new friends and be a "big girl" as she put it. I will
be posting new pictures later today, I promise!

It is not a game, it is an OBSESSION!

Everyone has at least heard of Guitar Hero right? How many of you have played it? If you have not yet fed into the deceiving "game" yet please please please listen to this warning...... THIS GAME IS THE DEVIL! IT NEVER ENDS! YOU WILL NEVER BEAT IT!

If you couldn't guess I have a new obsession.....and I hate myself for it! I was sooooo psyched when this game came out for the Wii! I begged Josh to go get it. This is not Josh's type of game so he was very reluctant, but he finally gave in and shelled out the $90 for this life sucking game. I don't think that I have seen daylight since!

You would think that someone that sucks so badly at this game would quit after the first weekend, but not me! I continue on my now three week quest to beat EASY! Yes ladies and gentlemen I have been playing everyday for three weeks and I have not yet been able to beat the beginner level. There is something about "medium" that is very intimidating. I think that adding the use of my very useless pinkie finger is just too much for me to handle. I am just not that talented dammit!

You are probably asking yourself the question " Chrissy, why don't you just quit?" I am going to answer that question folks! I CAN'T! Seriously this game is like a drug......I keep thinking that the next time I play I am going to miraculously be better, that I am going to achieve the coveted five gold stars on the great song Barracuda. But I have come to face the fact that I am now a mindless drone in the world of Guitar Hero. They have captured me and I will never escape. HELP ME PLEASE!!

At Long Last I Am Back!

OK so I know that you all feel abandoned, maybe even a little neglected. Just yell at me....BAD CHRISSY! BAD,BAD! Over the last two months my life has went from boring stay at home mom with nothing better to do than blog, to working mom, going to school mom, remodeling the house mom, and last but not least very very exhausted mom! I have taken a position at the Board of MRDD as a Family Support Specialist. I am SO excited about this job! I get to play with babies all day long!! :o) I just started last week. The girls seem to be taking the whole "Mom is going to work" thing really well. It really helps that my mom and my friends help out. The girls are always with someone they know and trust. I tell you, I could not ask for better friends! My house is STILL a total disaster zone. I do not have ONE room complete yet!! I hate remodeling more than anything else. It makes my house dirty and cluttered. If I would have known how long this remodeling would take I may have just lived with my house the way it was. I mean really how are you supposed to live in a house while you are gutting it and redoing everything? Remodeling is my main source of stress! Well this is it for now but rest assured.....I AM BACK! I will try to post some pictures of my beautiful bratty girls later today! Toodles!! :o)