Wordless Wednesday

Enjoying the Carousel at the Mall.

Warning!!

The stomach bug has hit our home....no one was safe. Being miserable and trying to take care of a 17 month old is nearly impossible! Eric and I are feeling a little better today.I finally have been able to drink something and eat a tiny bit. Claire is on her way up too (although she did have a 2 puke episodes this morning) but she wanted food and water after so I'm hoping the stomach bug is about to leave our home for good. I Lysoled my whole house this morning, I hope it will help! I just want us all finally normal by Thursday. Thursday is my dad's birthday we have reservations to have dinner at PF Changs! Plus Christmas is creeping up on us and I still have tons to do!!

The Great Elf Off

I've seen people "Elf" themselves in the past but never thought too much of it...until this year.I watched a few videos and new instantly that I must "Elf" my family! I had so much fun going through pictures and trying to find the perfect ones! Thank goodness my family and I are totally goofs; I was able to find three pretty awesome pictures! Enjoy!

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Happy Holidays from my Elf family to yours!

Why Do Dogs Hate Mail Carriers....

I think between 10am - 11am is the most annoying time of my day. It's when my snail mail gets delivered and when my two dogs go CrAzY! It's so annoying and so overly loud. Don't get me wrong, I love that they are protective and bark but they bark at EVERYTHING. They will even bark at a damn leaf floating by. From mail carriers, other dogs, squirrels, to snow...if you are outside there window you will get barked at. I have a huge picture window and my couch backs up to it and that's where they sit, waiting for anything that they can open their little mouths and bark at. My window is covered in saliva and snot every day and every night I clean it and just to repeat the very next day. I love my girls but sometimes, they drive me nuts. I'm not for shock collars but I wish they had something less mean to solve a little barking problem! I've tried the spray bottle of water, shaking a can of marbles at them, the newspaper trick and nothing, nothing works! I guess it's just the joy of being a pet own! I think my next pet will be a cat...or maybe a fish!

(FYI: the barking attack is happening at this very moment...)

Wordless Wednesday

I love my Buggy-girl!

Family/Holiday Pictures 2010

Photos by LaRoche Photography
Please don't copy this pictures! Thanks!

Christmas Ideas

So this year, Eric and I haven't been focused on ourselves for Christmas. We are so excited about Claire's 2nd Christmas but 1st Christmas she will actually care about her toys. Seeing as last Christmas she was 5 months old and just sat there! We have put all of our time, money and thoughts towards Claire (which we are totally fine with). A few weeks ago, my mom and dad asked for our Christmas list. Of course, I've been making Claire for awhile but mine and Eric's were not even in the making. Immediately, I thought..."what do I need?" It was really hard for me to make a full list of items that I needed or wanted for my parents and Eric's. Usually, I have no problem but this year, my focus was Bug. I managed to write down some things but I know they will have to do the rest on their own. Realizing that Eric and I didn't have anything major on our list to share between each other, we've decided to get something small from Claire for each other and then find one nice thing to get each other.

We really have always wanted the single-brew coffee makers so we thought that would be a great gift for Christmas for each other. We are not sure which one we want, there are two options:

There's the Tassimo one:

and there's the Keurig one:

both have great coffee, hot coco, iced coffee, latte flavors. The Keurig one is probably the one in the lead because you can buy the refill coffee packets at Costco! We will probably go this weekend to check out both options from Bed Bath and Beyond (yay for 20% off coupons).

I'm excited about this present because I love making tea or hot coco but I hate warming up the water or milk in the microwave. I feel like you can never get it the perfect temperature. These two machines would solve that problem! Another plus is, we will probably be saving money by not going to Starbucks or other coffee shops so often, since we have so many type of coffee and flavor options! I'm excited for Christmas! I can't believe it approaching so quickly! I better get to wrapping the gifts I do have and head to the store for the items I don't have!!