Winter?

We've been having interesting weather as I'm sure most of you are. Here it's been beautiful (70-80's) and everyone insists on worrying about what is to come "Sure going to be a bad summer...". Now, don't get me wrong this may be very true. However I've come to the conclusion we can't change the weather so dang if I'm not going to enjoy it while it's here!

We celebrated last week by going to Whiskeytown Lake with our dear friends. We had a picnic and played in the sand pretty much all day. The kids were crazy enough to play in the water a bit but I just enjoyed the sun and kept saying things like IT'S JANUARY!

Christmas Fun

Christmas was magic this year. The kids are the perfect ages and it was absolutely fantastic. We started Christmas Eve with tracking Santa across the world on a NASA website. Man that guy can move! When he got to New York it was time for the kids to go to bed. We opened the Christmas jammies and read the story of Christ's birth from the bible and off they hopped to bed.

My favorite story was in his letter to Santa, Tyler asked for "a Nintendo DS or 3 king-sized Slim-jims". So Christmas morning at 5:30 on the dot the kids tip toe into our room and we all head to the living room. Ty could see Slim-jims poking out over the couch and started yelling, "I got the Slim-jims! He brought me Slim-Jims!" Didn't get a DS but I don't think he noticed. All three of the kids were so excited for Christmas and the whole day was magic.

A perfect weekend

As you know by my previous posts, I am often astounded at how quickly time is flying. My youngest son has turned six months before I even had time to catch my breath. He is rolling, sitting and babbling as if everyone knows what he is trying to say. Until this point I have felt behind and trying, unsuccessfully, to catch up. I am drowned in the things I need to do or what I should have accomplished rather than the present. However, this weekend I was blessed with the most wonderful thing - time. I never once felt rushed, behind or like I needed to be somewhere else rather than enjoying the moment and I loved it! Perhaps the tides of the full (HUGE) moon slowed the earths rotation or perhaps this is how life is supposed to be and the rest is just noise. What ever the case I thought I'd let you in on my fantastic day.

Saturday started with some quick carpentry by my super handy husband. I thought I'd be clever and get a can-consolidator for a cupboard. Sounds good, but it didn't fit into the cupboard it was supposed to, so I moved the stuff in the other cupboard where it did fit and thus had to again rearrange. I thought it would end up being a difficult job but Dee was able to get all the shelves just right and all put back together better than it was. So check off getting something done.

I looked at the clock thinking of lunch and nap and was delighted to see it was only 10:00. We started in on some board games but as I said the weather was delightful (70's) and we ended up at the church playing baseball. I learned a few things such as, Tyler will not bat without wearing his batting helmet. Ellie doesn't care about 1st or 2nd base but always has to step on 3rd. McKenna wore the wrong shoes and ended up playing with the baby because her feet hurt. This was good for me because I learned it's OK to pitch while holding a 20 pound kid but not as easy to run and tag someone out. I learned Dee can hit way into the outfield but Pete (the dog) will not retrieve it unless Dee goes with him.

After baseball we went to dinner and came home to play the Wii. We were all completely exhausted once the day was over but I loved just being. The best way to describe it is complete joy and I feel fortunate to have enjoyed it for a full day.