It's The Most Wonderful Time of The Year

What I love about Christmas ...Do not be fooled by this picture, I do not love what is going on outside, but it does make it seem a little more like christmas time. Now for what I do love about this time of year, I love Christmas music, if I could listen to it all year long I probably would. Only the classics for me thank you...nothing better then a little Bing Crosby, Dean Martin, Ella Fitzgerald, good old Frank Sinatra, you get the point. Christmas Eve pizza, I hope I don't disappoint this year. Sadly I don't think it will be as good as moms, usually nothing is. I love decorating the tree, this year is a bit of an exception but we are very grateful to Chey for letting us use hers, it makes our little apartment feel all the more christmasy. I love Dads Christmas games, I sure am going to miss that...maybe the most, I don't think I will ever get sick of them dad, so you might get a break this year but don't think the tradition has retired...I will be back I promise. I love homemade hot chocolate, luckily I have a little still. I love advant calendars, don't ask me why the chocolate is awful but I have to buy them every year. I love trying to find that perfect gift...doesn't always happen especially if you're married to Dave...Their will be no perfect gift until I break down and buy him a gun for Christmas, one day I promise husband...one day. I am sure I am forgetting something but you get the point, I love Christmas. Most importantly I love Christmas with all our family which are becoming way to spread out, one day we will all hopefully find our way back to mom and dads cozy nest. We miss all the fun crazy gatherings at the Powelson house, with all the delicious food, if you leave hungry it's your own fault...We are excited to have a little family Christmas here, but we sure will miss all the family and all of the excitement of home. Uncle Dave sure misses all the little kids...please no one forget about him or he will surely cry. Tonight we watched the old Rudolph movie. How many times have we seen it and it gets better every year. Lottie was glued to the TV while it was on. We will have to add this to our traditions with our new little family. Now for some fun memories... I love that mom always tried to change the clocks back an hour so we would sleep longer...we could not be fooled, but you continued to try anyway. I loved getting to sleep in mom and dads bed on Christmas Eve with my sisters and brother, why did we all have to get married, it sure changes things...a lot more squishy! Every Christmas mom would make us make the bed and kind of do our hair...its her fault I am the way I am. I loved sitting at the top of the stairs listening to christmas music until dad would say oh my gosh look what Santa brought and let us finally come down. I hope that I can make Christmas as magical for my kids as it has always been for me. We Love and miss you all.

Hey everyone Santa Clause is Coming to Town!!

Toque Time!

On the gayness scale, yes apparently there is one, Dave put himself at an 8.5...I don't mind...Wouldn't you like it if he cleaned your teeth!!!

Dave's Past Life

Run little friend Run as fast as you can...

My poor husband is not coping too well with the fact that he cannot go shoot something, and grow a big bushy beard...much to my dismay! Dave and Matt now have much smaller prey to hunt. The poor wildlife of Ottawa use to be safe until these two boys arrived armed with their slingshots and marbles...you could say poor little rabbits and squirrels, but I would have to say poor little Dave and Matt, because they have yet to claim victory over these little creatures. Each outing is a little bit more discouraging then the one before, as they would say "they just won't die" but one of these times they will succeed if you want to call it that. All that can be reported is that there is a rise in the amount of injured woodland creatures but no fatalities...yet! Now I probably sound really inhumane right now, I actually like the little rabbits and squirrels but I also like my husband and he is sad right now because he misses his past life of big kills, so I will let a little rabbit hunting slide to make him happy. I must say though very carefully as not to get in trouble with him...this is the best hunting season I have had since being married to him, sorry dave.

What to do and What not to do...

So my new visiting teachers came over today, and I asked them what some fun things to do around here were...here we go...swimming, requires putting on a swim suit, tolerable, ryhmn time at library, I enjoy libraries so that would be fun, wondering around art museums, interesting but where are these so called museums. All I seem to find are winners and Homesense curse them. Their were a few other suggestions but I want to talk about one in particular, Salsa Dancing for moms...what you do is strap your baby to you and you proceed to dance about the room. You are taught actual dances. Now I wanted to laugh a little when it was suggested because can you honestly imagine me strapping Lottie on and learning the rumba or some other sassy dance. haha...hahaha. I think I will leave my dancing to the confines of my house or grandmas, but it has been an enjoyable daydream.

Lottie what have you done!!

So we have P90X workouts and we also have the 10 minute trainer, so I thought I can do this... death I tell you! My body is still shaking after doing it. I will say though that I did more than one session of it but still. I've got a lot of work to do to get these lazy bones back into shape. This is the only picture in existence of prego belly that will ever appear for viewing purposes.

Oh Lottie

We love your squinty smile

I am finally going to start a blog if only I knew how...help