Hello My Love...

I've fallen in love with these.
Especially since my trainer introduced them to me! ;)

Christmas Eve

Merry Christmas to Me!

Adam has finally stopped peeing his pants, even at night and during naps! I took a leap of faith last night and put underwear on him. He was nice and dry this morning!

After 10 long months of potty training I can now say that my son is potty trained. He will go to the bathroom on his own without assistance from anyone. However, he can't pull his pants up on his own so he usually walks out into a room full of people with a silly grin on his face and his pants around his ankles.

I'm an Aunt!

Eva Marie Surowiec was born this evening at 8:54 to Brian's brother Dave and his wife Dianne. Without all my husband's siblings I would never be an aunt (I'm a lonely only child).

Second Snow (today)

Whoa daddy, that's A LOT of snow!

(don't mind the pink playhouse in the back yard. heck, it was free and my son doesn't know any better.)

First Snow (a couple of weeks ago)

Look!!

Look what we got to do at a Christmas party on Friday night!

We made flowers out of hot glass!! I've decided I'm having my mom's 60th birthday party here in July. See the rest of the pictures here.

Little Geek

Now if only he could make us some money on this thing.

A Company I Would Not Recommend

Clark Color Labs They royally screwed up my photo Christmas card order. I received an email from them about a month ago and there was a great deal on photo Christmas cards so I ordered them.
Then when I received the order the portion where you write your message has our message typed over the text "your message here". So I contacted them via email (because they don't have a phone to call them on, which is another reason they suck). They sent out a new order and a good couple of WEEKS later I got the new order.
The new order had the text correct but the picture of our family is zoomed in so close that our heads are cut off. When I opened this I was shocked and just said "oh, COME ON!!!"
I emailed them AGAIN and they said they would refund my money and then I can re-order them. Well, I certainly re-ordered them, it was just through a different company. Those came out perfect on the first try.
Even more odd is that in the end they mistakenly sent me an email saying that my Clark account had been credited a certain dollar amount and that I can only buy certain size photo prints with it. I was so utterly confused because I'd already been refunded my money.
This company is totally out of wack, just stay with shutterfly or snapfish they are reliable.

Currently Reading

Mad Props

I've been working out with a trainer for 8 weeks now and I've had some great results. I've lost approximately 6% of my body fat, a few pounds, an inch off my waist, and a little bit off my hips/thighs, etc.
I have to give mad props to my trainer Grace because she's awesome. Not only does she push me and train me 2 times a week but she helps me eat right. The program I'm in focuses on your total well being so they also create a diet for you. But, Grace is even better because she gives me all these yummy recipes and food ideas that are good for my diet.

Grace is in my prayers because I want her to get paid well for what she does because she's so dang good at it. I'm always looking to refer people to her and so I thought I'd post this for her. A.M. Total Being Fitness is also offering a holiday special of 3 sessions for $99 (if you have ever looked into personal training you know this is a great deal!)

Bowler

Too cute!

The Creation of Adam's Lamp Shade

This is what is started as.

And then after a while turned into this.

Then back into the glory hole.

Those are my bosses.

The finished product is almost ready. They just have to drill a hole in the bottom and then I'll post a picture of the lamp. Pretty sweet!

Designed by Daedra

I've uploaded new card creations and there's still more to come. If you're lucky enough to be in my Bradley classes you could win a mini pack of Thank You cards.

Goodbye Precious Naptime....

The naps have ended this week and I'm sad. I don't know if it's normal for naps to end at this age but Josh seemed to experience the same phenomena 3 months before his 3rd birthday. After many recent fights and screaming sessions when it came time for bed (not nap) I've now realized that without a nap in the day Adam is so exhausted that he zonks right out at bedtime. Which is AWESOME! In a way it's nice, now I don't have to plan the activities of the day around a nap schedule I can just go and do things, as long as there's a restroom at every stop!