Christmas 2012

Santa Came!

Once again we had a fabulous Christmas!  Every year it seems to exceed expectations!  Since Noah has been born, it's really changed Christmas for me!  I love it even more than before, I look forward to the smile on his face and how excited he will be when he gets the things he has been asking for!  I love it!  He melts my heart on a daily basis but I gotta say that Christmas morning is the best thing ever!  I think I was more excited than he was!  I mean really he's not even three yet, so yeah I was more excited than him!
As always my Mom cooked her usual pasta dishes, meatballs, Schmidt's Sausage, ham, and chicken noodle soup for Christmas Day.  Her family comes over basically are in and out all day long.  It's nice to be able to see all my Aunts and Uncles that I don't always get to see, and cousins to!  We always have a good time!  We had company Christmas Day until 8 pm!

Noah and that Umi Car put the brakes on opening gifts for a minute!

I won this at a basket raffle, and I was going to buy him a small one, but though nah he plays his Aunt's....well now my next purchase is going to be a small guitar and putting this one away until he's older cause it's nice!

Parker's First Christmas!

Antonio and Noah

His Christmas list included a guitar, cars (really?  who knew!), chuggington, Umi Car.  Really that is all he asked for on a continuous basis!  I found a Geo doll that's shape and numbers interactive at Toys R Us when I was shopping so I figured he would like that and got that and the Umi Car!  I think besides the Scooter he got the Umi Car is his favorite!  He loves that show Umizoomi on Nick Jr for anyone who doesn't know who Umi Car is! He is branching out from Sprout and doesn't really watch that anymore, he watches a lot of Nick Jr and Disney channel.  His favorite shows are UmiZoomi, The Fresh Beat Band, Go Diego Go, and on Disney he loves Chuggington, Jake and the Neverland Pirates and actually I guess it's his feminine side coming out but he likes Doc Mcstuffins! lol He has already informed me that he wants a Jake and the Neverland Pirates Birthday! 

I was so excited that Noah got everything he asked for and more!  His Poppy was looking around for a used 4 wheeler that was in good shape and a good price for him, but had no luck for a small one.  That would have been the only thing that could have topped the things he already got!  I ask him if he had a good Christmas and he tells me yes he had a great Christmas!  I love that! 

Noah got me a beautiful Vera Bradley Purse and wristlet for Christmas!  I love it!  I love Vera Bradley! 

Few days until Christmas.....

Man oh man I don't know where this year has gone, but it seems like in a blink of a eye months have flown by!  Time seems to go slow as your in that moment but then you look at the calendar and it's already the end of that month....it's like when did that happen?!

This year however I am super lucky and proud to say that I have been finished with all my Christmas shopping since before Thanksgiving and the stuff I have been picking up has just been little extras here and there!  First year in many that I could say that!  I know I am not by any means rich, or can get Noah everything he could ever want in life, but out of the Christmas list he had this year.....he got everything on it!  He should be one happy little boy Christmas morning!  I am so excited and can't wait!  Honestly, this year is going to be so much fun!  He had a few presents to open already little things and he dug right in, I can't wait until everything is there! 

Charlie the Elf has been hanging around, in the bathroom, on the fish tank, in the Christmas Tree, on top of the shelving unit, on his Tractor, hanging from the light in the kitchen, in Mommy's car, he even showed up at Daycare two different times!  He's one silly elf!  He even one night played with Noah's cars and made a Parking lot, which is what Noah always does and left Noah a note to see how he did....Noah was less than thrilled that Charlie was playing with his cars!!  I think that Noah might be a little too young yet to fully get the whole elf on a shelf thing, but I think that he sort of understands it.  There is a elf on the shelf movie that we just caught the very end of one night, I would like to watch the whole thing cause I think then he'd get it!  I don't know.  But soon it's time to say good bye to Charlie until next year, I'll miss that sneaky old elf!

The other day was Noah's daycare Christmas Party!  As always it was fun!  Noah got a little something for his friends, and his teachers.  Made some melted snowman cookies, and then brought some regular cookies when I realized that maybe everyone wouldn't want to eat all that sweetness!

these were so super easy to make!  I'll definitely make them again!

Teacher gifts, Target gift card, tea towel, hot cocoa mix, reusable cup!

class gifts little straw cups, Hershey kisses and kit Kat

The party as all the parties was nice!  The teachers did a great job making the gifts for the parents!  As always they always make the best stuff!

Nice hand print Santa card, Deer, which I believe is foot and hands, and I LOVE the Rudolph magnet!  Also got the reindeer ornament also!

Ornament Noah got from Santa!

Tomorrow is Friday and PJ day at daycare, so Noah is going to wear his Christmas PJ's and he wants to take his Prep and Landing movie to share with his class since they usually watch a movie on Fridays! 

We had a nice visit from my sister, Danielle and Parker tonight!  Man I love my little nephew!  Tonight he was dressed like a elf!  So cute!

I guess that's all for now, until Christmas! 

Our weekend, Santa, Birthdays and Surprises!

This weekend is just about over, and it has gone so fast I feel like I did  nothing at all!  It's insane, I don't know who thought up this whole work 5 days and be off 2 but I'd like to kick them in the butt if I could find them! 
We had a rather busy Saturday!  A fun Saturday none the less though!  First we left in the morning and headed up to Bass Pro Shops to see Santa!  Fun Fun!  Thankfully the line wasn't long at all, so that wasn't a issue at all!  Noah had fun trying out all the 4 illers (4 wheelers)!  He is obsessed with anything with wheels, typical boy all the way! 

This was the power wheels one but he did try out all of them, including ones that were for him when he's like 30!  He had fun!  He took advantage of the photo op with the snowman in order to ride on this 4 wheeler! lol

Then we got in line to see Santa, Grammy and I were trying to get him to tell Santa that he isn't good all of the time, but then Santa didn't ask him that....why? Cause Santa already knows duh, and Charlie is hanging out here giving Santa reports every night! 
Noah and Parker both had their pictures taken with Santa, and both with smiles!  So cute, love those boys!

Both boys then rode the Carousel, Noah rode it 3 different times.  Twice with a Moose and once with a Polar bear!

Then it was off to Antonio's 3rd Birthday party!  Is birthday is on the 5th for real.  He loves Angry Birds apparently, so that's the cake he had!  He is so tech savvy for a 3 yr old!  Noah doesn't have a clue who or what Angry Birds are! lol

The Birthday boy is ready to open his gifts!
 

He got a lot of nice gifts and cousin Noah was right there, just as excited (if not more) as Antonio for them all!  Especially the cars he got, and the book of Chuggington, and the Castle!  Happy Birthday Antonio Ray your growing up to fast just like Noah!

Today we decided we were going to get the cleaning done we had to do so we could decorate for Christmas, well we did get it done, but we didn't get the Christmas decorations pulled out as planned and a few odds and end done as planned.  I got Noah's Nativity up, and his tree up and some decorations on it but that's it!

Then Dad came in and said Noah's toy box was all done and dry and could be brought in.  Noah seen this in the garage but he didn't know what it was or that it was for him!  So it was a huge surprise for him!  This toy boy is huge, my Mom took a picture of Noah standing in it before we filled it!  He LOVES it!  He wanted to put his toys away, he wanted to sit on it stand on it, you name it!  He loves it and I love it!  This thing will last him until he's married!  Then if he has a son and names him Noah he can hand it down!  Thanks Dad!

We had a very busy weekend, and now it's over and back to the grind!  I'm putting in some OT this week so Noah is going to be going to daycare earlier than usual, not sure how that will go over for me.  Hopefully it won't be bad! 

Next weekend is Christmas Decorating for sure!!!

Happy Thanksgiving!

I hope that everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving today!  I know I did, I have a fantastic family which I got to spend the day with, which just makes things better!  I also made my very first ever Holiday meal!  I gotta say, I was nervous because my Mom's Turkey day dinner is like the best, but I must say that it was pretty darn good!  It's very much comparable!  No complaints!  So I feel very much accomplished, and hopefully next year, I can do it without my Mom coaching me!  I just didn't want to mess anything up so it was like how much of this or that, but I did it so I'm proud!

 

Tonight Parker is having another sleepover with us so his Mommies can go shopping, better them than me! lol  He's a good baby can't complain at all!  Now if only the almost 3 year old was that good....I'd be in good shape!  Not to mention a whole lot of jealousy kicks in!  Oh well, we'll muddle through we always do!!

As I said I hope everyone had a wonderful Turkey Day and remembers all the reasons to be Thankful, if  it's not something you think about everyday already, what better day than today!

Trick or Treat / Daycare Party and Parade!

Last night was Trick or Treat for us!  I had spent about 2 weeks making and countless hours thinking, wondering and contemplating ideas to to actually put Noah's costume together!  I must say, that it came together GREAT and was a HIT!  Literally just about every single house we went to last night they said, oh my God that is so cute, that's the best costume all night!  My sister and I were talking about getting into a parade and we should have done it because we probably could have won a prize!  He did awesome!  I couldn't be more happy with how everything turned out!  The front tires fell off, and I'm not sure why, he must have caught one on something and then we didn't notice cause it was all held on with Velcro, so it wouldn't have just fell off.  So it doesn't really matter now, it made it through Trick or Treat and it's awesome!
Here is a picture of the tractor before Trick or Treat night! It is missing the smoke stack cause I didn't know where it was when I put it all together so my sister and Danielle had to handle hooking that up!

This was made with: big paper towel box, 2 big wheels cut from cardboard, 4 smaller, 4 even smaller, orange construction paper for the reflector, green Christmas Eve paint, Yellow Duck Tape from Wal-Mart, Black construction paper for the grill, Velcro to hold the yellow centers to the wheels and the wheels to the tractor, as well as the ribbon straps to the tractor, a paper towel roll for the smoke stack, cotton balls for smoke.  It was easy, cheap and the BEST thing I could have ever made!

Anyway the whole point of this besides the fact that Noah is absolutely in love with Tractors, and loved having one around him, was that Parker was dressing up as a chicken.  So little Farmer and his Chicken!  They were so cute!

He was too excited to stand still, while we waited for Parker he was hitting all the houses close!

Parker got his first Treat!  I'm going to make that pixie stick disappear, Noah is NOT eating that!

These nice folks gave him extra cause he made a production putting it in his bucket! lol

Just got back and already worried about eating peanut butter cups!

Aunt Brina's favorite chicken!

We had fun, next year when Parker is walking and really trick or treating I'm sure we'll be out longer.  But we had fun, even seen Al Ganoza from WHTM Channel 27 news!  We talked to him, Noah thought he had candy, he said on I'm sorry I don't I should have brought some!  You guys have fun!  I don't like him on the news but it was kinda neat to see him in person like that.

Today is Noah's Daycare Halloween Party and Parade, so I have been home making pumpkin cookies, but I don't know if they are really going to be as good as my sisters are so I might just take my pretzels!  I made little treats for his class, so I don't really feel obligated to make more than I signed up for!  I was making mini Carmel apples, well lets just say that did not work as the directions said it would!  So that isn't happening!  I'm going to keep messing with it, cause they are cute and I want to perfect it cause that's just me!  But today the kids might get pumpkin cookies, or they might just get pretzels!

They got mummy juice boxes I made, 3 packs of Halloween fruit snacks, a twix, M&M's, and 2 kit kat bars.  I think that's cute, oh yeah I hooked some spider rings to them too, don't know if they all stayed stuck or not though!
The parade was cute!  The directors dressed up as the marshmallow man and ghost buster guy!  It was cool!  All the kids looked so cute!  There were no more Hulks, there were a lot of Captain America's and Spider-man's!  So good choice buddy!

Miss Ryan made the cutest shirt!

I had fun at the party and parade, as usual the teachers did a good job!  Now tonight we are headed to my sister and Danielle's cause of this lovely hurricane coming, they gotta run up to camp bright and early to shut their camper since they have plans so Noah and I will be watching Parker!