You Are a Boston Creme Donut

You have a tough exterior. No one wants to mess with you. But on the inside, you're a total pushover and completely soft. You're a traditionalist, and you don't change easily. You're likely to eat the same doughnut every morning, and pout if it's sold out.

What Donut Are You?

Garrett @ 35 weeks 1 day

Profile


Fist


Starting to grow hair


Leg


He's still a he!

Christmas Pictures

Christmas Eve Pictures

Billy, Ben & Logan in their Christmas Eve pj's


Logan


Billy


Ben


Cookies and milk for Santa. Carrots for the reindeer. We also sprinkled the Reindeer Dust out on the front walkway so the reindeer knew where to land.


Logan's Loot


Billy's Loot


Ben's Loot


Christmas Morning

Ben


Logan


Billy


A couple outtakes....





Ben and I. He was crying and I was telling Shaun to hurry up and take the picture. LOL

Happy Birthday Shaun!!

My hubby is the big 3-4 today!

Love ya Shaun!!

XOXOXOXOXO

You Should Have a Blue Christmas Tree

For you, the holidays represent a time of calm, understanding, and peace. You avoid family fights, and you don't get too stressed out - even when things are crazy! You like to make Christmas about making everyone's life a little bit better. You don't get caught up in greed or commercialism. You're too sincere for that. Your blue tree would look great with: Lots of silver tinsel You should spend Christmas Eve watching: It's a Wonderful Life What you should bake for Santa: Chocolate chip cookies

What Color Christmas Tree Should You Have?

To Do List

My "to do" list. I told Shaun I needed help with laundry and the boy's room this weekend. He 1/2 helped the boys and did one load of laundry. He smirked when I asked if that was all the laundry he got done. I guess he finds it funny that he doesn't have to help out, but at 33, almost 34wks pregnant I'm not finding any humor in it at all. I'm in pain, hungry and tired. I haven't been keeping up with my gestational diabetes monitoring because there just isn't enough time in the day to do everything with that too. So in an attempt to show him that I do not sit around and nap all day I'm going to start making a list of what I do and printing it out for him. So he knows what I'm doing while he's in his lay-z-boy at the fire station.

• Diapers
• Pick up Living room
• Vacuum Living room
• Put away dishes from dishwasher
• Reload dishwasher
• Pick up my sewing/wrapping stuff and reorganize it all
• Help the boys finish cleaning their room
• Pick up Ben's room
• Make a list of what I need to buy for Christmas (presents, food, for Logan's school party)
• Need to mail out both my camera and the Wii for repair as they are both not working
• Return Wii game we rented and are unable to use
• scrape ice off of the Durango and move it when the plow comes
• shovel the front steps
• Laundry (wash/dry/put away 3 loads, put away 2)

I'm going to add/change/remove things from the list as the day goes. It's just after 10am now....we'll see how much I can get done today to make up for this weekend. At least I know better than to ask for help again.

12:30 Update

Done:

Diapers
Put away dishes from dishwasher
Reload dishwasher
Pick up my sewing/wrapping stuff and reorganize it all
shovel the front steps (tried, but will have to finish later...need the sun to hit them for a bit they're covered in thick very slippery ice)

What's left to do:

Pick up Living room
Vacuum Living room
Help the boys finish cleaning their room
Pick up Ben's room
Make a list of what I need to buy for Christmas (presents, food, for Logan's school party)
Need to mail out both my camera and the Wii for repair as they are both not working
Return Wii game we rented and are unable to use
scrape ice off of the Durango and move it when the plow comes
Laundry (wash/dry/put away 3 loads, put away 2)

11:00 PM Update

Done:

Diapers
Put away dishes from dishwasher
Reload dishwasher
Pick up my sewing/wrapping stuff and reorganize it all
shovel the front steps (tried, but will have to finish later...need the sun to hit them for a bit they're covered in thick very slippery ice)
Pick up Ben's room
Laundry (wash/dry/put away 2 loads, put away 2)
Did a second load of diapers

What's left to do for tomorrow:

Pick up Living room
Vacuum Living room
Help the boys finish cleaning their room
Make a list of what I need to buy for Christmas (presents, food, for Logan's school party)
Need to mail out both my camera and the Wii for repair as they are both not working
Return Wii game we rented and are unable to use
scrape ice off of the Durango and move it when the plow comes

Gingerbread Tree

Logan, Billy and I put together this tree while Ben napped this afternoon.


And this is why we were inside putting together a gingerbread tree.....




Spidey had the best idea of what to do during a Nor'easter. And yes.....he is upside down, hanging out of a pile of clean laundry.

Garrett's Bear

December 15th, 2007

We met up with Shaun's parents (Paul and Nancy) in Portland for lunch. We had planned on taking the boys to see Santa this weekend so it worked our perfectly.

We were in line for Santa about 15 minutes early and got right in to see him. Then we did a bit of shopping at the Maine Mall. The boys made Garrett a bear at Build A Bear. Afterwards we met Paul and Nancy at Longhorn Steak House. We had a great meal and it was fun to catch up with them.

Billy, Logan, & Ben with Santa


Billy & Logan bathing Garrett's Bear


Billy, Nancy, Paul & Logan


Ben

Walmart

Walmart sucks. I hate going to that store. I hate that everything is cheaper there, but you have to wait in line forever to check out. I avoid that place if possible, but when you live in Maine, it's going to snow, your 8yo is without snow pants and every other place in town is sold out of anything under $50 you go there. They had a whole rack of $15 snow pants, but I had to deal with long lines, a squeaky hard to push cart, and a very unhappy 19 month old just to get them. Then someone "waited" for our parking spot. I'm a hugely pregnant woman, with a cart full of junk and 2 kids. It takes me 1/2 the day to get in the car, and that's when I hurry.

After trips like that to my least favorite store I often read this blog and feel better. It could have always been worse.
http://walmartsucksorg.blogspot.com/

Get Well Soon!

My mom had to have emergency back surgery a few days ago and is starting to get a bit bored of being stuck at home, flat on her back. Please send some good thoughts and prayers her way for a speedy recovery. TIA



I love you mom and wanted to let you know that I'm thinking about you. The boys and I are sending lots of hugs to you.

Let it Snow!

Getting Ready

We've been cleaning house and getting ready for Garrett. He's going to be sleeping in our room until he sleeps the night, but will eventually be sharing a bedroom with Ben. They will be sharing the same dresser and closet as a result. Most of the baby clothes have been washed and put away. Same with the diapers. We still need to get a few more covers, but I added those to our Christmas wish list so I'm not going to worry about that until after the new year.

Here's a slideshow of Garrett's diaper stash

2007 Family Ornament

Purchased while we were in Bar Harbor this past October from the Christmas Spirit Shop
http://www.christmasspiritshop.com/