WOW!!!! Already?!?!?!

Holy Moly y'all I can't believe the Christmas season is over already!!

That was like a whirl wind of craziness and it was over! 

It makes me very sad to think it is over so fast but I was SO BLESSED this year!!!

So many great things to tell y'all about..............where do I start!?!?!?!?

Well, of course the family get together last weekend was a GREAT graze feast as promised!!  I am pretty sure I put on a good 10 pounds by just walking into the room y'all!!  We all spent time talking and laughing and I even got to see some old pictures my Grams found of when my aunt did a project in high school and used us cousins to help!!  It was great!!

The week at work was crazy because it was so short with Christmas being in the middle it really threw things off!  I worked Monday and part of the day Tuesday as Big B's school was letting out early for the holiday.  I had to run to the grocery store first before picking him up.  Who wants to take a toddler to the store on Christmas Eve?!?!?!?  Not this mama!!! 

Since Big B is getting older now and starting to understand things a little more we decided to start our own "traditions" for Christmas.  The plan was to go to church for Christmas Eve service and then go to Iowa Beef Steak House for dinner.  We love eating there and who doesn't like a good steak and potato y'all!?

Of course the best laid plans..................I wasn't feeling very well by the end of the afternoon and this just didn't work out very well.  So we decided to just head to dinner.  It is LITERALLY three blocks from our house so we didn't have to go very far!!  If y'all have never been to this place you should go at least once!!  We usually split our meal and still leave miserably stuffed!!!  Big B loved his pork chop and baked potato!!

After "waddling" out the door we headed home to see about opening just one present!  Big B has been tortured by all the presents under the tree this past week!!  He wants to open them every day and I kept telling him he had to wait for Santa to come!  So we decided he could open one the night before!! (this we preplanned on our part of course!!)

He opened his jammies and Smurfs The Christmas Carol movie.  The plan was to watch the movie but again, the best laid plans and all!!

Christmas morning was AMAZBALLS y'all!!!  I can remember getting up at 5 in the morning so excited to see what Santa brought!!!  Well our little man isn't too far behind his mama!!!  He was up at 5:15 and bouncing off the walls!!!! 

Still not all that into the Santa thing yet but SUPER EXCITED about presents and to see he got new stuff!!!!  Santa brought him his VERY OWN chair to sit in that has cars on it so he was excited about that!! 

Unwrapping presents is SO much fun to watch when a 2 year old is doing it!!!  I could have wrapped a pair of socks and he would have been excited about it!! Watching his face light up every time was all the presents I needed this year!!!

I leave you with a picture of my little Santa himself!!  How cute is he!?!?!?!

Happy New Year Y'all!!! 

What is Tradition Anyway?!?!

Who makes the rules of what you HAVE to do for the holidays?!?!? 

Don't get me wrong I LOVE the holidays more than anything!!  I am secretly like a little kid every year for Christmas!  I love opening presents and looking in my stocking still! Yes y'all we still get stockings at my parents house.......don't judge me!

I just HATE all the planning and travel and STRESS of it all!

So I ask you my deal blogging friends................who says you HAVE to do "this" for the holidays. 

Someday before I die I am going to be sitting on a beach, sipping on my fruity drink, soaking up the sun during the holidays instead of freezing my ASS off driving all over to a million places for the holidays.

BUT that time hasn't come and I really shouldn't be complaining.  There are plenty of people that don't have anywhere to go for the holidays.

This year my parents won't have anything to do on Christmas and this makes me very sad for them!  We have decided to have our Christmas on New Year's Eve so myself and my sibling can have Christmas morning with our kids at our own homes.

So I ask you this................what is your tradition that you do for Christmas? 

We are just getting started with Big B and this will be his first "real" Christmas.  He was SO MUCH fun to watch opening his birthday gifts I can't wait for Christmas this year!!  He thinks the tree is pretty cool already and he even helped me decorate it!!  SO CUTE!!

Am I the only person that can't believe Christmas is a week from TODAY!?!?!?  WOW that year went by SUPER FAST!!!! 

So we start our first round of the HOLIDAY CHEER this weekend.  Big B is going to be staying with Gramma and Papa Friday night so mommy and daddy can get some gifts wrapped FINALLY!

Then it is off to my Grams and Gramps for an ALL DAY EATING FRENZY y'all!!!!  I am telling you it is like cattle grazing in a pasture!!!!  We just set it out and eat all afternoon and into the evening. 

At some point Grams will bring out the GOOD stuff of home made noodles and you are so full you can't even think straight but you HAVE to eat them because they are GRAMS HOME MADE NOODLES!!!!!  It is always a great time of eating food and good stories with a great family!

That night we will be staying in a hotel with my parents separate rooms of course but fun for all the cousins to play and then on to my other Grandma's for the next Christmas.

This one is less grazing but still A LOT OF FOOD y'all!!  It is so fun to see all of us cousins having children of our own and see them play together.  We do a grab bag at this one and that is fun to see the "big kids" fight over what gift they want! :)

I will let y'all know how many POUNDS I gain after the two day EATING FRENZY and I am sure there will be some great stories!!! 

I know I have said this many times before but I am SERIOUS this time y'all!!!  I am GOING ON A DIET as soon as this Christmas season is over y'all!!!  I am OUT OF CONTROL on this weight thing!

Piece and Chicken Grease Y'all!!!!

Big B turns 2!!

WOW y'all I can't even believe my baby boy turned two!!  Sorry this is a little late but things have been BAT SHIT CRAZY around here for the last two weeks!!!

Big B turned two on December 3rd.  He was born on 12/3/11 at 12:03!!  I just think that is SO CUTE!!

Okay back to the good stuff.  I can't believe how much he has grown even in the last couple of months! He has turned into quite the little man!

It is always hard to plan a party in December because you never know what the weather is going to be like.  Once day it is nice and sunny and the next..............well it is cold and shit and snowing like CRAZY!!!!  Like it was on Sunday when Big B's birthday party was! :(

So on his big day he got the GREAT PRIVILEGE of going to the ENT for a check-up on his tubes that were put in the middle of November.  Everything looks great and he hasn't had ear infection since so that is always a great sign!

His appointment was first thing in the morning so we decided to have some breakfast in the hospital cafeteria!  Doesn't everybody get to eat breakfast for their birthday at the hospital cafeteria?!?!?! 

B eating breakfast with mommy for his birthday!

Since Big B's birthday was on a Tuesday we decided to wait for his birthday party with family until the weekend.  The weather was TERRIBLE but everyone made it and B couldn't have been more excited!!! 

B "cheesing" for his picture.  This is his "Birthday" shirt too.  It has his name embroidered on it with skull and cross bones in the number two.

He got to play with is cousins and eat cake and ice cream! What more could you ask for at the age of two!?!?!

These are his cakes.  The little one was just for him but he is just to neat of an eater and had to have a fork to eat it!!  LOL 


The Hubs got B the best gift of all!! His new best friend!!!  He LOVES this thing y'all and it is SO cute to watch him play with it!!!!

This is B's new best friend!! At first he was scared of him but now he LOVES his Elmo!!!

Sorry the blogs have been few and far between lately!! I am working on changing that!!!  Things are getting back to whatever normal is around here and I for one couldn't be happier!!!  I will be filling y'all in as soon as I can!!

Piece and Chicken Grease Y'all!!