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Christma-co! Lol Point form since I can form a full thought today:  My house is such a mash up right now of wrapped and not yet wrapped Christmas gifts, beachwear and luggage!  My to do list before we leave us somehow not getting any smaller--probably because I always seem to put off the most time consuming tasks. I have like 12 loads of laundry to do and put away before we go (did 3 this morning so I feel good about that lol). I'm all packed and I just have last minute stuff to pack for Garett now --Tyler hasn't started, so I may take the bull by the horns and pack him since im more concerned about it at this point lol.  I am NOT looking forward to leaving Garett now that Ty has been in my ear saying he will forget us--even Though I know it's not true, I feel bad and don't want him to think we abandoned him since we will be gone when he wakes up on Saturday :'( Tomorrow my parents are coming for a sleep over--why is that ore exciting than my trip right now? Lol We ...

No time to write a blog, we are working around the house today, but here are some of our fall family shots!

What.a.NIGHT! Luck was running short in the Wood household last night. Someone's karma bit the wrong two people :( first off, Garett somehow caught a stomach bug causing him to have a fever if 101 on top of his congestion, and projectile vomiting on my bed (twice) (not to mention I changed the sheets in between too.). My poor boy :( he was smiles the whole time, which is probably why it took us an hour to figure out he was even sick! ...so out came the Otrivin sea water for babies nasal spray, tempra and water to stay hydrated. I was all set to cuddle with him in bed all night. But he had different plans. He wanted to go to his crib around 10:30. At 11 he woke up crying for his bottle, so we gave him some and he went back to sleep until almost 9 this morning. He seems 100% better other than the stuffy nose, but I'm getting rid of that pretty quickly I think :) In the midst of all of this, I was cooking our dinner. Here is what I made: Garlic Parmesan roasted potatoes A brown su...

Where the heck did this weekend go?!? Last night when Ty got home from band rehearsal, we were too tired to put up the tree. Instead we sat down and looked at our fall pictures on our 65" TV--that's a whole lot of us! Lol I will share the pics when I load them onto my laptop and email them to myself to put on my blog :) after that, we tuned in to some TV and relaxed a bit. Garett had skipped out on his evening nap, so I knew he was going to have a rough patch at the beginning of the night. What I didn't anticipate was his moaning and tossing and turning all night :( we were up three times to change his wet diaper, rock him and give him a bottle. He would be fine as I rocked him and fuss as soon as he wen down. This morning I noticed a somewhat plugged nose n my boy, so I gave him a baby salt water nasal spray and it seemed to help a bit. I cranked his humidifier and put one in our room too, so hopefully a bit of moisture in the air helps a bit and wiping is nose with boogi...

Last night was relaxing. We accomplished nothing, but it was relaxing.  Ty had a meeting at the bank and to look at some store locations for his new business, and when he came home, I got to take a nice bath and went for a nap (but couldn't sleep , grr!!) and then we watched some TV and played and I started dinner. We weren't super hungry since I hate a very late brunch and Ty ate while he was out, so I made this: The only thing that was different was the bread. I used ciabatta buns instead because they hold up to the panini press better--it was an avocado spread,Colby jack cheese, homemade breaded chicken strips, and bacon --yep, yum. Not too light and not too heavy. Then we waited a bit and had the cheesecake I made for dessert.  We sat down and watched the first period of the game before Garett was beat, so Ty finished watching it and I went to bed early :)  Today Ty has rehearsal with his new band, and is picking up our DVD of family fall pics we had one, that I poste...

Now that I have that BBB song in my head... I haven't been absent to get stuff organized for Mexico--with G in the mix, packing got a lot more complicated. I went on a baby food making frenzy for 2 days. That, plus we've been out running errands and visiting people. I know, you missed me, right? LOL The other night, we tried a healthy new recipe. Verdict:Ty loved it so much he actually ate the leftovers and ate all the extra filling lol I also decided to be counter productive and make these peanut butter chocolate chip shortbread cookies. Luckily, the recipe was small and Ty ate all but 2 of them lol. They were amazing.  We get our final product DVD of our family fall photoshoot tomorrow. I am so, so excited to see the pictures!  This weekend we are taking advantage of the more mild temperatures and putting up our Christmas lights and cleaning the basement so we can put up our tree and such! I have the hot cocoa, Christmas movies and Christmas music ready to go to help us thro...

I may have went a little overboard with Christmas for Garett. I was raised in a home that loved Christmas. The level that my parents brought it to even surprised Tyler when he joined our family, and he has grown to love Christmas as much as us. However, I may have even went a little wild. I went to a big toy expo yesterday. 'Nuff said. I went with the intention of picking out two or three larger items, since I had already bought 9 mid-sized presents and we did not want to go too crazy since Garett is way too young to even open his own gifts (I'm not diluted enough to think otherwise, don't worry). I do want him to have nice pictures to look back on and know we always did put this much effort into Christmas and that mommy and daddy and Santa were always good to him. I think my point will be proven, he has lots of gifts to "open" hahah. Gifts are all well and good, but Christmas is about tradition and memories (aside from the religious aspect, and the whole being wi...