Merry Christmas Eve

Tonight I hosted Christmas Eve for the family.  Food Fun and a cute baby = a bunch of full and exhausted adults.  As BooBoo gets older it's only going to get better.  Tomorrow we go up to my parents house for proper dinner and presents.  For now it's a Duck Dynasty marathon and early bed time.  I am so lucky and blessed this year.  It really is the most wonderful time of the year!!

First Christmas

Lunch with Auntie!

Texting, knee up -  he may have learned to drive from me :)

Just hangin out in the Coupe

MOM -  car for one, not two.  Get her OUT!

I would call this a Christmas present success.  Sara's eyes were bulging out of her head before I even got in the door.  I'm pretty sure she was in the Cozy Coupe before I even fully set it down inside the house.  To say they love it is in understatement.  The BFF and I were very careful to make sure turns taken were of the same length of time, after naps though all bets were off.  I guess a certain Buddy Bear took quite the long turn and his sister decided she'd just scoot in too.  Who can blame her?  It's a fun fun toy, she even figured out how to use the cup holders in the back window area.  I think a secondary one purchased at Easter will be a must, this summer will be lots of outside time and sharing will be nearly impossible.

This afternoon I finally got my lists cleared out, well almost.  I need to make the stuffed mushrooms so they are ready to go in the oven tomorrow afternoon, and I'm still debating about making a new Sugar Cookie Chex Mix.  Both would be really easy but I need a little break.  I was baking, cooking and cleaning for almost 3 straight hours.  I need to eat some dinner and catch my breath.  Plus I have a looming list of work things to get done tomorrow, on top of actually working.  I've got to put up some good numbers this week to make up for last weeks goose egg!

Now it's time to watch a little football and sort out some work stuff, and maybe a little more baking/cooking.  Tomorrow is going to be delicious!

Short on time, long on lists

Auntie's Butt = great bongos

Playing my Puppy Piano with my face

Twins Christmas gift, Little Tikes you are my Everest

Siamese Twins?

Today did not go as planned.  I slept 12 hours!  Which meant I had 5 hours to get done about 12 hours of stuff.  I succeeded in about 4 of my 10 tasks for today.  I need to go get more groceries so I can accomplish at least two more.  Then tomorrow night it's baking central in my house.  Gotta bake the cookies I made today, cover peanut butter balls in white chocolate and bake my Christmas Eve Cake.

Tonight I got to babysit BooBoo.  She's just such a good little girl, never cries, except when she was faking me out about sleeping.  She's been asleep for 45 min when the whimpering started, then fake crying to real crying!  We had a cuddle and she's been back out for 30 min.  I think she's afraid of missing out on fun with Auntie, but her dad thinks it's cause she saw Santa today.  How bout we call it a tie?

Now I'm organizing all my recipes off Pinterest so I can make a quick trip for more supplies and then rock and roll when I get home.  Who needs sleep?  I'm gonna live off peppermint mochas for the next couple days.  I'll sleep over New Years :)

More Traveling

Sassy Claus

Today was yet another long day of driving.  Today I chose to go up through IA, into SD and then MN.  I am so happy to be home, but it was short lived.  I immediately changed and went to see my lil BooBoo.  I'm babysitting tomorrow night and want to not have any stranger danger.  I'm happy to report she was just fine.  She reached out to me and gave me a wave and a head tilt aka an I love you.  She's just so much fun!  I'm excited to hang out with her tomorrow night.

After that I headed out to get some errands done.  I went to Target and the grocery stores.  That's right stores, because I can only get certain things at the fancy pants one.  After mad dashing through the stores I have everything except sausage to make sausage balls with.  Smooth huh!  Good thing I'll be out on Sunday and can quick pick some up.  Tomorrow will be a busy day as I really need to wrap presents, clean and sort all my new and old work equipment, and make dips, cookies and a cake!  I have a delightful habit of finding great food, BUT it tastes better after a couple days.  Thankfully this year I was smart enough to remember I need to assemble some of it tomorrow.

I need to share how things with Clint are going, well to be exact, aren't going.  He never called me last night when he got home.  This really didn't shock me, I assumed after the day he had of driving he had to be exhausted.  AND then I put together the pieces.  He texted me at 9:45 a.m today. asking if I was in town still, I had already left and told him so.  Nothing since then.  Later today I was playing our game of Words and it said he'd played 11 hrs ago, which equated to 3am.  So my guess is he was out last night or he fell asleep on his couch, woke up, played his game and went back to bed.  He's done that on more than one occasion.  Either way I realized I was going all CSI WI on him and why?  It doesn't really matter anymore.  He's not my one, he's not going to make some grand gesture to win my affection.  We get drunk and have sex.  That's it.  A majority of our conversations are work related, the personalization they used to have has really started to wane.  His actions have certainly gotten a reaction from me.  I'm sure I'll see him next month when I go back to Lincoln, but I'll be surrounded by my new co-workers most of the time.  Plus I'm sure he'll have added more girls to his harem by then and I'm really not in the mood to start the new year with an STD.

THIS is my goal fro 2013!

Not a fan of Nebraska

DUCKIES!

Well work was not canceled today, but the roads were horrible.  It was cold, sunny, and super windy today.  It took me almost 45 min just to clean off my car and even then the driver's door was still frozen shut.  I attempted to leave the parking lot and got stuck, so I had to get out once again and scoop out snow with my window scraper.  Ridiculous.  I decided I'd earned a Starbucks and that was a 30 min adventure that I'm sure with normal roads would have only been 10min.  OH well, I get to leave tomorrow.  BUT not with my new van.  Turns out it really did have some extensive problems and they can't finish it until next week sooooo I'm driving home a pool car.  I'm pretty sure I now have 4 cars in my name.  I think that has to be some kind of record!  I also struggled with work today and getting things all sorted out.  I'm pretty sure I have to go in tomorrow to get my phone and wireless card, hardly anyone was in the office so I'm not sure if they arrived today or not.  I'm so ready to put this place in my taillights.  This trip did not turn out the way I had planned.  Tomorrow I even have to go home a different way because I do not trust the IA DOT to have cleared the roads enough.  Less than 24 hours to HOME!

Working Wednesday

Say CHEEEEEESSSSEEE!!!

Facetime style!

I've had the hardest time remembering today is Wednesday.  I am so confused as to my days of the week!  It was a crazy day meeting people and going on tours and things not working and equipment not found.  Oh and I have another vehicle checked out to me while my newer van is in the shop.  My new boss freaked out when he heard about the exhaust being busted!  Guess he wants me alive and not brain damaged.  Now it's time to wait out winter storm Draco or as I like to call it a Snow-nami or a Blizzacane!

Tonight I face timed with the BFF and the kids.  Sometimes it just makes it all better to talk in person!  I love how crazy the kids can be and all the cute things they say.  I really hope Mommy can find duckie, she will have one sad baby girl if she can't.  AND we may say "no way" too much as my magpie nephew picked that one right up.  I cannot wait to spend my Sunday with them.

Now I'm going to read the list of closings and storm warnings and make some dinner.  Good thing I went to the store last night.  I'm all prepared to hunker down.

More traveling

Today I drove to Lincoln.  I'm so over driving, especially in winter weather through Iowa.  My new van isn't new!  It has 71k miles, is filthy, and I'm pretty sure it's giving me carbon monoxide poisoning.  At 35mph it sounds like it has a hemi in it.  The check engine light is on and so is the oil change light.  I can hardly wait to take it in for repairs.  I just hope it can make it the 400 miles back home, in one piece.

Tonight it's about chilling out and ignoring all the blizzard warnings on TV.  Tomorrow is going to be a big mess down here.  I got some groceries and Sonic is in walking distance so I should be good.  Now here's hoping the satellite signal stays.  I can be without TV but not internet!  Now it's time to crawl into bed and watch some Big Bang.