Merry Christmas!

Not so cute

ok maddie can fool you. One may think she's cute. She's not. She's tricking you. She is a terror. She managed to open .. in key spots about 1/2 the christmas presents under the tree. I told ben not to put them there. he told me i was a grinch. guess i'm not a grinch after all. just right. I know she's searching for that vacuum cleaner she's hoping to get for christmas. but she didn't find it she found things for everyone else though. :) this morning she had a bottle of raspberry blue childrens advil while i was getting the kids dressed. who cares right now i thought....it has the safety child cap on it. Wrong. she spilled it all down my hall upstairs. then did her cackle laugh. real funny mads...back goes another present for you. she'd better watch it for the playskool vacuum is gone. :) last night she wouldn't go to bed so i got her up after an hour of crying. she had her sippy cup but figured out how to unscrew it. poured it out all over my nightstand. didn't need that magazine anyway i guess. and finally she won't eat. anything. ever. except last night she finished zachs brownie. now all she wants is chocolate. i can't fault her for being a girl. right?!

Maddie Lou Who

I have decided that Maddie can also be called Little Cindy Lou Who. Very striking resemblance don't you think. The hair...the eyes...the big tummy. Definitely the same.

Funny Happenings

So that I keep track of things here are a few funny things the kids have done.

Thursday at 3:30 am Kyle came in my room and said he can't sleep and he needed to sleep in my bed (not happening) I told him no and to go back to bed, rolled over and fell right to sleep. 30 minutes later I rolled over and saw him....his head was on my bed and his feet on the floor- he was asleep! Freaky haha i then sent him to bed...good thing ben was home i would have been terrified if he was out of town :)

Conversation between Sadie and Zach yesterday:
Sadie: Mom is that a temple or a church (a church house she hadn't seen before)

Me: it's a church

Zach: I'm going to marry Anya (his friend) in the temple

Sadie: Zach, first you have to kiss her

Zach: oooh that's gross

Sadie: Zach you have to kiss on the lips before you can get married

Zach: disgusting

Sadie: Oh Zach, you're so young

What?! haha which princess movie is that line from?!

so it's been awhile

You'll notice the new family picture. That is not my number 1 choice. You'll have to wait until after my christmas cards go out to see the real one :)

I really have not had anything exciting going on to write about. I'm trying to find Sadie an ipod shuffle for Christmas. I know they're only 45 bucks new, but I've been watching craigslist like a hawk the past few days...nothing. or ebay. Why do people think they can sell something used for like 5$ less than a newer model in the store? annoying.

Today I went to the best dentist ever. He saved me from a root canal. New dentist...a whole new day. i only have 1 filling left instead of the 4 root canals the other dentist wanted to do.

Sadie has always called maddie "cuties" I also adopted the nickname for her. No more. Now she's "mini beast". All she does is tear apart cabinets, bookshelves, unroll new roles of toilet paper and rip books. She even smashed my favorite red vase. Even Zach wasn't so into everything. She climbs up Sadies doll house like she's king kong. I told ben about this cause she gets stuck on top. You know what his reply was....Oh she did?! Just like I was trying to teach her.

What?! yes lets teach our kids to be more annoying. Speaking of Ben's new favorite thing to say is "If we don't teach them the world will". Thats like his response to my complaining about the kids. I need something reply I just haven't found the perfect comment yet.

So my goal of 40 lbs lost at the end of the year....I have 3 more lbs to go. Man it's taking awhile. ..Ben's been eyeing some a couple of golf clubs for awhile. So I bought them as a Christmas present. So excited. He almost bought one about 2 weeks ago. I went bazark and kind of gave away the surprise I've been keeping for more than a month. We never wait until the designated day to give presents. So I gave them to him. He was going to go play golf ... i wanted him to be able to use them. It was so fun to give my surprise. Now i have nothing. The excitement is gone ;)