January

Happy Groundhog Day!
Ever seen that movie?

I feel like that is my life right now. Wake up every morning to the SAME thing...

wake up
shower
get ready
let Calie out
feed Calie
get Gabe up
change Gabe's diaper
drop Gabe off with mom or Jenny
go to work
coffee
work
go to the restroom
work
eat lunch
go to the restroom
work
leave to pick up Gabe (YEA)
drive home
unpack the car
let Calie out
feed Calie
make dinner
eat
clean up
play
bath
bed
Get up and do it all again...

Some day's things change a little like you know when Bill Murry starts doing things differently during the day.
So, I'm not necessarily complaining...I can tell you one thing though...I don't get near enough time with my little guy.

January always seems to get away from me. I don't know if I'm just so busy in December that I go into a kind of vacation mode or what....but blogging and picture taking definitely went on vacation. So here are some of the fun things we did in January.

New Years Day...this is how exciting our household was...

That evening it was pouring down rain to the point of scary on the roads. We ended up going to PRW on their last day of their light show. We got coffee and Jaden and Gabe drove. ;o)

Gabe and Calie challenging each other. They're great friends!

Course Gabe's Bryan's son so there's got to be some video game play'n


We watched K one night and had a total blast! We did animal sounds while we ate dinner, We made a fort to hide from the "tiger" aka Calie and Kambrie was a dinosaur.






We celebrated Mom and Bryan's B-day!





And we got to have a nice dinner with Randy and Michelle while Kaleb and Garren who I watched since they were born watched Gabe. Gabe had a blast with them!

Me and Kaleb years AGO

Kaleb and Gabe now...

Gabe snuggling with Garren
And last but not least...we found Gabe sleeping sideways in his bed the other night. SO cute!

FINALLY

You'd think that with all the time I had off around the Holiday's I would have made the time to update here, but nope...I am SO far behind and here's my attempt to catch up.

SNOW

We don't get a lot of snow. And sometimes in the winter you just crave it a little.

Our winters usually consist of the weather men claiming it was coming. We were gonna get it...just a trace of snow. I would get a little bit excited and the next morning there would be NOTHING. But this year we really got it and A LOT of it! I loved EVERY minute of it!

This is our house before it really started coming down

Our backyard...we had to carve a path so that Calie would go pee

It took Bryan forever to shovel out our driveway and put on chains so that we could get out of the house. I got to drive too and it was so much fun!

We had about almost 2 feet of snow in some parts

It was SO beautiful

CHRISTMAS EVE

I made Christmas Eve dinner this year.

My favorite moment:

He dressed himself after dinner in this. He put Jaden's boots on, my mom's white belt, Jaden's hat and paraded around. His full tummy was hanging over the belt. He looks SO proud!

Not such a great moment:
Gabe in timeout trying to see us from upstairs

Opening Christmas PJ's

These boys are like the energizer bunny...They never stop...trying to get a picture of them together in their PJ's was pretty much impossible. lol

Look at that face

We have a picture of me in a box of wrapping paper too when I was about Gabe's age.

CHRISTMAS

Chaos and stress or not, Christmas just always seems to be the best. We slept at home Christmas Eve and picked up coffee at Starbucks on the way over to my parents. I can't believe they were open.

We had a White Christmas.

Opening up stockings from Santa
Cool Tractor's from Grandma and Grandpa
I love Gift Cards!
Mom and Dad Happy about something

Jaden got this Dino that walks and growls and Gabe was totally freaked out by it. (Still is)

I think it's was time for a nap ha
Tool Set
Jaden got a new bike
Mom's purty table
The whole family

What a day. Next year I swear I'm going to figure out a way to slow it down a little bit.

Pizza Margherita

Pizza dough (I use the dough balls from Winco)
2 cups shredded mozzarella cheese
2 roma (plum) tomatoes
1/4t salt
1/8t pepper
1/4 cup chopped fresh basil leaves
1T olive oil

1. Heat the oven to 425. Lightly grease the cookie sheet.

2. Unroll the pizza crust dough. Press the dough into a 12-inch circle on the greased cookie sheet, pressing from center to edge so edge is slightly thicker than center.

3. Sprinkle 1 cup of cheese over the dough, leaving about a 1/2 inch border of dough showing.

4. Slice the tomatoes, and arrange on cheese. Sprinkle the salt, pepper and 2 tablespoons of the basil over tomatoes and cheese. Sprinkle with remaining 1 cup of cheese. Drizzle with the oil.

5. Bake about 20 minutes or until the crust is golden brown and cheese is melted. Sprinkle with remaining 2 tablespoons of basil.

A must try!!! It's SO GOOOOD!