Merry Christmas!!

Well, I'll just start by saying Merry Christmas to everyone! I love you all and I hope your Christmases are great! Mine is halfway over already and it's been so fun and hectic just getting all the toys put together, trying to clean as I go and watching the kids and Ken play with all their new toys. Ken got Guitar Hero for his playstation with an extra guitar for Hunter to play, so they've been doing that all day (with a short break to let me watch my new movie, Mamma Mia) Mason is so good at entertaining himself that he is spending all his time on a GeoTrax train and airplane set. We are planning to go see Bedtime Stories, the new Adam Sandler movie a little later and then come home and do a bbq rib dinner. Why not, right? I will definitely need to post pics from this morning, but it will have to wait for a bit, cuz I'd like to enjoy as much of this time as I can. Love you!

Putting up the tree

Here is a random picture of our Sonny puppy. He looks so silly.




We put our tree up last night. It was fun because Mason was able to really help this year and has a bit more of an understanding of the festivities. I was so unstressed about Christmas until this weekend when I got suspended from my job. I'm waiting for them to decide whether or not I'm fired and in the meantime, the bills are piling up. We are toying with the idea of Ken just switching to night classes and working his job full time. It sounds like it might work out, but I go crazy with the boys around 24/7. Then I was thinking I could train for a job from home like Mel did. We shall see what happens.
Some of you might appreciate the fact that I have not had a soda in a full week now. Since last Monday when I had a UTI, I quit drinking soda and have had a lot more water. I definitely need to make some changes as you can see from this picture up there, I am carrying about 15 pounds more than I should be. I don't know how it happened, but something needs to be done. So I will update you as far as my unemployment goes and on the winter festivities. Love to all.

Recent Purchases

These are my 2 most recent purchases of things for myself. I realize that I should be buying things for Ken and the boys, but I already did!!! It is so nice to not have the stress of picking out Ken's Christmas present. He's definitely gonna like what he's getting too! Yea!! And I started early on gifts for the boys too, so this Christmas should be a good one. My egg donation has finally officially started. Thank God, considering it was supposed to happen months ago. Though it's probably good that it got postponed because I really want to save this money and use it for something really good!! (Like maybe a down payment on a house, wouldn't that be awesome!!)
I really can't wait to leave Springfield. The male population around here really like blonde headed, blue eyed girls and I get harassed constantly. When I was a teenager I liked being whistled or hollered at, but now I can't stand it. It happens at work all the time from the cooks and dishwashers who are Puerto Rican, so they say stuff in Spanish because I can't understand and it's so annoying. I've gone so far as to talk to my managers about it, but these guys have no shame. I don't want to be rude to them but it might come down to that. Ok, I'm done ranting.

Things I Want

I want him and I want to be her!!! LOL!
Yeah, this one is so not realistic, but hey, a girl can dream!!
This will be my Christmas list for this year. So far this is the only thing I want, but I'm sure I can find many more things to add.

Our Thanksgiving at the farm

We spent our Thanksgiving with my friend Lynanne's family in Rhode Island again this year. Her grandfather owns a poultry farm so we had some deliciously fresh turkey. Yum!! Our favorite part of visiting the farm is goimg to see the baby chicks. These little guys were hatched only 24 hours before we came to see them. They keep them in a giant incubator-like room with space heaters all over the place. They were so cute. This one is of Ken pretending to eat the chicky!! What a goof!
Sooooo cute! (and the chick is too) lol!
Mason did a good job being very soft. Unfortunately we couldn't get Hunter to hold still for a pose.
All the little chicks in their incubator. Now imagine this times 4 and that is how many there were.
All in all, our Thanksgiving was great but I am so excited that this was the last one away from all the family.

Halloween

Ken aka Joe the plumber
Mason is a spider.
Hunter the ghost.
Mason, Hunter and our neighbor (also Hunter's "girlfriend") Shivani.

We didn't take a lot of pictures this year. We were too busy having fun. We just trick or treated around our condos and the nearby neighborhood. It was a good time.

Hunter is 5. Can you believe it?

So, of course, all our pictures are out of order, bit Oh well. Hunter had a blast at his party. Good thing, cuz' I was all stressed out. Chuck E. Cheese has way to many kids. So in this picture, Hunter just scored on his opponent.
CARS cake
So much going on around him
Yea!! Present time

He is roaring at the dinosaur
Happy guy
His pin says "Birthday Champ"

Fall Festivities

Sorry all these pics are all out of order. We went to the pumpkin patch the other day and had a great time. Hunter was all about carving his pumpkin and did such a great job. He scraped it clean and even cut out his pumpkin face(with supervision)
Mason's is a spider

My super awesome work of art
At the pumpkin patch...I wanted to be in one of the pics

Good looking family
They had a small zoo at the pumpkin patch. We stole the rabbits' food to feed the goats.

What we've been up to

Soccer...Hunter has scored 4 goals this season so far!!!!
They love gymnastics.

Sorry

I'm sorry I'm a terrible blogger. I've been busy now that Ken is back to school. I need to work as much as possible. Hunter is in soccer and both of the boys are in gymnastics. It is really cute and they love it. Hunter is back in Pre-school too and is doing great. I've got some pictures from gymnastics, just a matter of taking the time to upload. Hunter scored 2 goals in his last soccer game and they won, so that's pretty exciting. I've got another egg donation coming up soon. And that's about all. Sorry for being such a disappointment.

Our trip to the Cape

We forgot to bring our camera to the Cape when we went a couple weekends ago, so I took a couple pictures on my cell. Each of the boys took a turn being buried, though Mason is the only one I got. They had fun.