Wordless Wednesday

I Vow...

I saw this on my cousin-in-law's page and I wanted to share it with all of my followers.

I vow:

I vow to never text and drive.
I vow to never take someones life because I'm texting and driving.
I vow to never put my baby girl, Claire in harms way because of a single, "OMG or LOL"

Texting and driving is said to be more dangerous and more serious then drunk driving and that's pretty scary if you think of the millions of teens out there that don't know or don't care about the consequence of a single text while they are driving. I've seen a few videos in the past that changed my whole demeanor about texting and driving - it basically scared the sh*t out of me and put horrible thoughts and vision in my head. I couldn't imagine hurting or scary killing someone I knew or a complete stranger over something so silly, so simple. Still to this day, I see people texting and driving - it's sad but so scary at the same time because it only takes a split second for your life to chage forever!

Have you or do you text and drive? If so, watch this video and put yourself in the shoes of this people. What if you lost someone you loved more then life itself...your brother, sister or even your child or what if someone lost you. Watch this and hopefully you will take a vow, a vow to never text and drive again!

So This Is Christmas....Christmas Eve 2010

Can you believe Christmas 2010 as come and gone?! I can't. It was such a whirlwind of fun, family and some amazing food. Our Christmas started Christmas Eve night, like it has for the last 10 years. We headed over to Eric's Grandma's house to celebrate Christmas with is Dad's extended side of the family. We get to see cousins, we normal don't get to see all too often. We had some great Grandma cooked food, amazing dessert and probably over 20 different types of cookies to choice from. My favorite are the chocolate covered cherry cake cookies...their to die for! After visiting for a little bit, we were ready for the "stocking game". The "stocking game" start 3 years ago. Eric's Grandma decided to stop doing stockings for all of her grand kids(12) and their spouse because it was getting to be a little much. She decided to buy different items and put everything into a storage container and let everyone pick some things. Well for us, it's turned into a game and the storage container went from 1 to 2 to now 4 containers to choice items from. We get a few minutes to check out the containers with only our eyes, no touching/moving items around allowed. Eric's dad figures out an order and then we all pick numbers and the fun starts. This year all 4 containers were on her pool table so we decided we would have to constantly walk around the pool table and when our name was called we would have to find something from where we were around the pool table at that point. Along with that rule, we also only have 3, yes 3 seconds to pick any item. If you take too long, you get the count down. Which makes you even more syntactic and nervous. All in all we did very well - 7 toothpaste, 5 shampoos, 1 condition, 3 dish soaps, 1 hand soap, 5 body wash for men, kitchen towels, lotions, tweezers, lip gloss, socks and some stuff for Claire (Gerber snacks, goldfish etc..) It was a great fun filled evening.

Here are some pictures of our evening:

Our little family on Christmas Eve 2010

Opening one of her gifts early!

Checking out all the goodies!

Claire loved carrying around everyone's bag!

Grandma and her grandkids and great grandkid (minus 8)

Claire carrying around her new baby, Carlee!

One of her favorite things to do at Great Grandma Laura's house - play on the pool table!

To read about our Christmas stay tuned...

Happy New Year

Happy New Years!

Hope everyone had a great Christmas and an amazing New Years! We've been very very busy so I will update very soon with pictures and stories of Christmas and such!

Here's too hoping 2011 will be just as amazing as 2009 was!

Christmas Card 2010

Here's the Christmas card we are sending out to all of our family and friends this year! I would have loved to send a Christmas card to all of my blog followers but I think that would have been a bit pricey, seeing as it would have put me at sending over 100 cards. Every year so far we've gotten are cards off of Shutterfly, along with some other gifts and prints! I love Shutterfly, if you never checked out there website...I highly recommend it! You can always find a great gift idea!

Happy Holiday from my family to all of yours!

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!!