To 2012- More Fun. Less Work.

2011 is over and man am I glad about that.  It was a tough year.  Rob has been working on a multi-year project that is just about wrapping up now but it was a lot of workin' last year for him.  And when he wasn't doing that, he was doing the family room.  In 2011, we went on zero vacations.  I haven't been anywhere overnight away from the house since I was in the hospital giving birth to Wyatt.  WOW.  He's nearly 20 months old, by the way.  No one else has gone anywhere either, it's not like I just got left out.  All we did in 2011 was work our butts off, especially Rob.   Rob and I had a little funtime drinks at home on New Year's Eve and he asked me to make the toast and this is what I said, "To 2012- More fun. Less work."  We have some small projects for the house this year but most of them involve painting and/or organizing.  The biggest thing we need to get done is get a new garage door and garage door opener installed but we will be hiring that out.  Too much work.  So to sum up 2011, good year but not enough fun.  Looking to turn that around for 2012.

The weather this winter has been crazy.  It's snowed twice, maybe three times, and nothing has stayed on the ground.  It is warm here- many of our highs for December and January have been in the 40s and 50s.  Yesterday, according to the thermometer in our backyard, it got up to 61 degrees.  61 degrees on January 5th!!!!  That is nuts.  The boys and I took a walk and ran around in the backyard all afternoon.  It was awesome.







There has been a lot of playing with all the Christmas gifts around here.  It is a lot of fun for me to just sit back and see what they come up with.  Like this first picture here...

Working on Tiny with his Handy Manny tools-


Modeling their Spiderman jammies-



Apparently, Wyatt got the power to scale buildings (and beds) with his jammies-


And here is Rex, using the train table as a desk so he can color on his new Cars coloring book-


It's going to be a busy, busy weekend around here for Rob and I don't think we'll be seeing much of him. My plans for the weekend are just to do whatever he needs us to do and help him so he can wrap up this work project and be done with it on Monday.  And then we can start looking at what to do for a vacation- Yay!!