So needless to say it was a wonderful day!
Tuesday, December 30, 2014
Christmas 2014
Christmas was wonderful this year. Hectic. Overwhelming. Crazy. But very very fun! We awoke on Christmas morning at our house (I was up at 6 am too excited to sleep in)! The kids got up about 7ish and we did gifts and breakfast here before heading over to my parents house.
Once there we met up with the entire Reitz side and opened stocking and WAY too many gifts. Fun and craziness ensued. I felt a little bad for the kids since with each amazing gift that hey opened all they wanted to do was open up the packaging and PLAY! (but their mean ol' parents wouldn't let them because it would mean pieces would get lost/parts forgotten). Then we headed home for nap time, while I made pies.
Then it was off to Joyce and Johns house where the third round of gift giving took place. Wonderful, thoughtful gifts and a very yummy dinner! We also got to snuggle the growing baby in Rachel's tummy and find out that Matthews cousin Arron and his lady are going to be having a baby!
So needless to say it was a wonderful day!
So needless to say it was a wonderful day!
Tuesday, December 23, 2014
December Update
I know it has been a while since I have updated the blog, needless to say we have been busy ('tis the season). So here is a little December update...
It had been raining...no, more like torrential down pouring here for the past 3 weeks. Because of that there was no way that I wanted to pack the kids up and walk around outside looking for a Christmas tree. So I asked Matthew to pick one up on his way home from work. It just so happened that day Mallory commented that she wished that we could go get a tree. So with that perfect lead-in I told the kids that maybe if they could image the tree hard enough and with enough detail that MAYBE it would show up! So we sat inside the dry house conjuring up the most perfect Christmas tree! We talked about it's height. It's smell. It's color. It's feel. Even how it could arrive. Moments later Matthew arrived and we walked out too see that in fact they had imagined the tree into being (and I got to stay dry!)!!!!
Then I had my birthday. It was a great day. I didn't have to work, the kids were darn good and I was given some beautiful gifts. (check out those feetsie jammies... Mallory thought that I needed some like theirs apparently).
A week later Matthew and I celebrated our 8 year anniversary (the bronze year). Matthew, true to form got me a sweet, thoughtful yet unconventional gift to go along with the theme. The wine apparently was the 3rd place winner at the California state fair. He is so clever! I am so deeply in love with him. He is incredible! Thoughtful, sweet, loving, fun, even tempered (most of he time) and so supportive... not to mention an incredible father! I am very, very lucky!
Then Mallory had her Preschool Christmas show! It was about 10 minutes of the most adorable sing ever! She did great (boy, does she love to perform)!
Lastly, today we said goodbye to our beautiful and trusty Outback. Not only were we sick and tired of cramming the kids into the car, but Matthew brought up the fact that because each of the kids car seats were literally touching each other from door to door; if we were to get into a crash (heaven forbid) there would be no space/gaps to absorb the shock and it would literally be passed along through all the kids! Yikes! So with that we traded in the Subi (they offerend us a great deal of $ for it otherwise we would have kept it) and got a 8 passenger 2015 GMC Acadia! We drove it home today at 5. It is beautiful, clean and smells sooooooo good! And my of my the SPACE! Heaven!
It had been raining...no, more like torrential down pouring here for the past 3 weeks. Because of that there was no way that I wanted to pack the kids up and walk around outside looking for a Christmas tree. So I asked Matthew to pick one up on his way home from work. It just so happened that day Mallory commented that she wished that we could go get a tree. So with that perfect lead-in I told the kids that maybe if they could image the tree hard enough and with enough detail that MAYBE it would show up! So we sat inside the dry house conjuring up the most perfect Christmas tree! We talked about it's height. It's smell. It's color. It's feel. Even how it could arrive. Moments later Matthew arrived and we walked out too see that in fact they had imagined the tree into being (and I got to stay dry!)!!!!
Then I had my birthday. It was a great day. I didn't have to work, the kids were darn good and I was given some beautiful gifts. (check out those feetsie jammies... Mallory thought that I needed some like theirs apparently).
Then Mallory had her Preschool Christmas show! It was about 10 minutes of the most adorable sing ever! She did great (boy, does she love to perform)!
Lastly, today we said goodbye to our beautiful and trusty Outback. Not only were we sick and tired of cramming the kids into the car, but Matthew brought up the fact that because each of the kids car seats were literally touching each other from door to door; if we were to get into a crash (heaven forbid) there would be no space/gaps to absorb the shock and it would literally be passed along through all the kids! Yikes! So with that we traded in the Subi (they offerend us a great deal of $ for it otherwise we would have kept it) and got a 8 passenger 2015 GMC Acadia! We drove it home today at 5. It is beautiful, clean and smells sooooooo good! And my of my the SPACE! Heaven!
Wednesday, December 10, 2014
34
Yesterday I tinned 34! I am now officially in my mid30s! It was a great day, I didn't have to work, the kids were darn near perfect (evident from this picture... which was the first and only picture I had to take) and Matthew got my wedding ring fixed so the center diamond isn't lose anymore (I hadn't been able to wear it for over a year)! We went and liked at all the Christmas trees lit up in the town green and ate dinner at my favorite restaurant. This getting old thing isn't so bad!
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