What's up!!

I can't believe I haven't posted anything in over a month. This tells me that I have a very boring life and nothing to report or that I have a very busy and hectic life with no time to sit down in front of the computer for an extended period of time.

Life keeping me very busy is the real reason. I stop in a to keep up with everyone blogs but I just don't take time to post, not even comments. My mom had back surgery on Nov. 6th so that is taking up the majority of my time. She is doing well but with her restrictions she is going insane so I'm trying to keep her company. As well has keep her house clean, doing her laundry and cooking her meals.

Then Thanksgiving weekend we had 3 turkey dinners to attend over four days. Needless to say I did not really want any leftovers after all of that turkey. The good thing is that I got a start on my Christmas shopping that weekend, "NO" I was not a crazy person who hit the stores at 5:00 a.m., but my in-laws are only 15 minutes from the outlets in Birch Run. So while we were there for Thanksgiving the MIL and I hit the mall for awhile.

We got our Christmas lights up last weekend while the weather was beautiful. It was 60 degrees and sunny all weekend. I since have come to the conclusion that I would like snow for the week of Christmas and New Years and then it can go away and be 60 degrees again until Spring. Well it is wishful thinking since I still reside in Michigan.

On Friday was our town lighted Christmas parade. We always gather each year at my mom's office and have everyone come there to watch the parade. This year we had about 25 people join us for the festive season.




My 2 cozy girls all wrapped up to watch the parade.








Saturday we went Christmas shopping. Let me just say that next year we will be getting a baby sitter. Do you know how hard it is to lie to your kids and tell them that the gift in the cart is for their cousin and not really theirs?

And finally today~ We went and picked out our Christmas tree. We have this great place where they planted all of these trees and they only let special people in to cut them down. The bonus is they only charge $10 a tree, 2 years ago we paid $45 dollars for a stupid Christmas tree. At this moment it is still in the back of the truck and I am suppose to be rearranging the living room so it will fit. But blogging is much more important. I have The family Christmas at my house this year I think, so I will be very busy getting my house ready. It will surely take me the next 20 days to get it ready.





The tree directly behind us is the tree we cut down. I will post picks later when we get it up and decorated.





Well I had better finish up because I just saw my brother and his wife drive by, heading to my mom's house for my nephews birthday party.

Just in case it is another month before I get back on here have a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. P.S. The next time I post I will have a new
niece/nephew. She/He should be here within the next 2 weeks for sure, if she doesn't have it by Dec 2oth they are going to induce because the doctor is going on vacation and if she keeps the baby until its due date (Dec. 24) they expect it to be around 10 lbs. Ouch!