I’m done!

Phil and I were going over our Christmas lists earlier and we are officially done….if we want to be, hehe. There is still one thing I want for his stocking and one more thing we might get for Riley’s. There’s also one more gift I want to get her "from Santa" but I’m not sure it’s still available on Amazon. I should have bought it while they were on sale and still available in all colors.

Never mind, I just checked and they have all colors again and it’s on sale, wohoo.

Anyway, I still technically have to make the gifts for my parents’ and Phil’s, but all the parts are painted and holes drilled, it’s just a matter of gluing it all together. I’m making my folks a wooden hanging family birthday calendar and Phil’s parents we’re making a grandparents brag board. I got a sign on Etsy that says Grandchildren Spoiled Here and am attaching clothespins to hold pictures. Both ideas from Pinterest šŸ™‚ We also have to make the hand print ornaments for the aunts and grandparents, I think we’ll do that tomorrow.

My birthday was this past week, I’m almost an old lady! Phil and I were goofing around after Riley went to bed last night and it’s weird to think our kids will never remember us being this young. All their memories will be of their old "fuddy duddy" parents lol. Phil said that’s probably for the best šŸ™‚ I worked the day before my birthday and my boss got a cake and a card, it was really nice. I’ve worked there 5 years and never had one despite signing dozens of cards for others and eating who knows how many cakes. My actual birthday was spent with my mom and brother. She took us out to lunch and my brother treated me to Dairy Queen after.

Today was our big party – BIIIIIIIIG sigh of relief that’s done with! Phil took off Thurs and Fri to help corral the child while I got everything ready, it was a lot of cooking, decorating, and cleaning. A lot of people who said they were coming never showed, but we had a good group of people we haven’t seen in awhile and friends of ours who JUST had a baby stopped by!! Two weeks old, oh my, I swear my baby was never that small. Though she was smaller than him! I just can’t believe we’re going to have one of those again. My favorite mom from group came, I love her daughter. Riley’s at the age she’s just starting to really interact with other kids while playing and those two were something else to watch, too cute!! I took a lot of pictures of the house before the party, but then the battery died, of course. Eventually I’ll post pics of my holiday decor.

I don’t remember last time I updated, really, I tend to do that a lot. We took Riley to a Christmas tree festival the first week of December, she was so excited. We walked in the room full of trees and there’s a mirrored ceiling so the lights all reflect and she was shaking and squealing. The girl loves her Christmas lights, we’ve heard a lot of "ooooooh, pretty!" this month. Last night we went to family story time at Barnes and Noble because they were doing a Polar Express event. It actually was pretty cool. The guy reading was dressed like a train conductor and after they handed out bells to all the kids (who were in PJs, so cute!) The conductor lead the kids around the store shaking their bells while the elves set tables with cookies and cocoa and we sang carols while the kids ate. They had some kind of raffle we missed because we were a little late, but when you first got there I guess they were handing out train tickets with numbers on them. Not sure what that prize was. Overall it was really fun and Riley really enjoyed it.

I almost wrote a Jeff entry last weekend, but I’m sure you’re all sick of it since I’ve been married, what? 3 years now and the drama continues on in my head. Ah well. Some day he’ll have a degree and new job and it will all be a distant memory.

Here’s my shadowy 23 week pic, I should maybe only attempt in daylight hours!

Here’s my cheese face before the tree festival

And before Polar Express

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December 11, 2011

Riley looks like such a big girl! I love her pj’s. šŸ™‚

December 11, 2011

hehe cute girly!