More Snow!

Can you believe it snowed two years in a row in the Dallas area?  I can't!  I don't know what we will do next year when it doesn't.  We are getting kind of spoiled, ha!  Last year Molly wanted nothing to do with the snow.  She cried when we put her in it but she LOVED it this year.  She could not wait to go outside and play.  We actually went out a couple of times.  She had so much fun running around and eating the snow.  She even "helped" the neighbors build a snowman. 

After a long fun day of playing in the snow Molly was so exhausted.  She fell asleep snuggled up to me on the coach.  She has not fallen asleep in my arms since she was like 8 months old.  It was so sweet.

August 16, 2011

Is when this little one is due!

We found out over Christmas and are very excited that Molly is going to be a big sister.  Bret is sure that this one is a boy because this pregnancy has been so different than with Molly, but I keep telling him not to get his hopes up that every pregnancy can be different.  I have been much more nauseous/sick with this one especially in the evenings and I must eat a little something first thing in the morning so I don't get sick either.  I think that it is getting better (I think).  I will be 9 weeks on Tuesday so hopefully it will be better soon.  Besides that when we went to the doctor a week ago everything looked great.

As for Molly.  We ask her if she wants to be a big sister and she says YES!  I don't thinks she really gets it yet.  I guess I need to get all of the baby stuff out of the attic soon so that Molly can use them and get over them.  I had gotten this chair down when I was babysitting a friends baby and of course Molly wanted to pretend that she was a baby.  She specifically asked for a paci (I don't know how we even have any because Molly NEVER used one).  After we found a paci she put it in her mouth and crawled into the chair.  She played like that for several minutes and over several days, until I put it back up.

Look Back at 2010

January:

Molly was one and half (so little and still not much hair)

February:

It snowed.

March:

My Granny turned 90.

April:

Easter

May:

Molly moved out of her crib to her big girl bed.

AND it was my last month/year teaching.  I would now be staying home to take care of Molly and work part-time doing PlayWisely.

June:

Molly turned 2!

And the annual family fishing trip.

July:

4th of July party

and Bret's Grandparents celebrated their 64th Wedding Anniversary.

August:

Fun on the boat.

September:

Labor day weekend with some friends.

October:

Giving out candy at Halloween.

November:

My Uncle Larry passed away.

And Thanksgiving with the families.

December:

Molly enjoyed the decorations and presents this year.

AND Bret turned 30!

New Year's Eve

This New Year's Eve was a fun laid back one.  We went over to some friends house with a few other people.  A delicious five course meal was prepared.  We sat around the table most of the night eating and talking but we did turn on the t.v. to watch the ball drop.  The craziest part was that Molly stayed awake the whole time.  She is a party animal!  I have not really thought of my New Year resolution yet or if I will even have one.  Do you have a New Year resolution?

If you can read it the list on the right is the 5 course menu.

Christmas in a Nutshell

I had planned on making a nice long post or two about all of our Christmas events but the thought of that makes me tired.  We had a great Christmas and are very blessed so here it is in a nutshell.  On Monday, December 20th we headed down to Stockdale to spend time with my family.  We stayed there most of the week then headed back to Rockwall Christmas Eve morning.  We went to a wonderful Christmas Eve service at the church we attend.  Christmas morning Bret, Molly, and I woke up for our Christmas/Santa morning at our house then later that afternoon we headed over to Bret's parents for Christmas with his family. 

At my parents: the cousins had a movie night

Molly watched the cows (everyday)

The cousins played on PawPaw's boat

Colton yelling "No" at me.  He did not want his picture taken.

Rylan and Molly helping pass out presents.

Christmas morning at our house.  Molly enjoyed unwrapping all of the presents.

She was not a fan of the trampoline she got.  She screamed "get me out" and has not gotten back in it.  I guess she will have to warm up to it.

At Bret's parents: Bret and Uncle E frying the turkey

More presents

Her cool little bed and Elmo from Uncle E and Abby

Love this girl!!

Glitter...Oh my!

I let Molly make her own Christmas tree ornament including using glitter.  I let her have full range of globing dotting her own glue and even pouring the whole bottle just a little glitter on.  Now don't worry I made sure to put a piece of paper under the glitter pouring so I could easily get the excess back into the bottle, so really no glitter was wasted.  Well maybe some was.  I thought it turned out pretty cute!  It made me chuckle when she was pouring the glitter because it brought back memories of when I was teaching in the self contained Special needs classroom.  I had a student that LOVED glitter, and anything else small that he could throw in the air.  If there was a bottle of glitter I mean in two seconds he would have it and in one motion grab it and throw the WHOLE bottle of glitter up in the air while yelling "you have won a million dollars!"  At the time it was not so funny because for days he would try to pick the glitter out of the carpet that the vacuum could not pick up and throw it in the air, but looking back now it kind of is funny.  Oh the stories I could tell :)