January 2011 Fun

I realize that I completely and totally missed posting anything about Christmas. But time is limited around here. I spend my days chasing after two very active and busy toddlers, while trying to entertain and keep a 4-year-old busy.

I will just throw a few recent pictures up here for now and maybe will get more on here soon.
I try my best, but I've said a million times before, this blog is just not a priority right now. When I do get a minute of downtime, I usually spend it doing dishes (because I can't have the dishwasher open when the twins are up as they run around the house with knives) or sweeping the floor (as they pick up chunks of garbage and run around the house with it) or vacuum (as they like to sit down right in front of where I am trying to vacuum). You get the picture. :)

The best family picture we can get on a whim~

My new "do". Haven't done the bang thing in a while....kinda like it, but it's different, eh?

Bronson LOVES his books!

Landon, always smiling....

Gage, doing "Tricks"

Foskett Visit

I know I have been so poor at updating this damn site.

However, my friend Sarah w/ The Foskett Fam (link on right side of my blog) is much, much better. She is also a maniacal photo taker! They came up for a visit last weekend and she has put together about 5 posts of our weekend events.

Thanks, Sarah, not only for a great visit but for taking so many photos and putting them on your site!

Welcome, 2011!

We were very blessed in 2010. I have not one complaint.

I have lots of pictures, as well, that I will hope to get up here soon. Life has been moving on like usual, with two tornados flying through my house multiple times on a daily basis. In just 2 days, Bronson has a cut by his eye, bruise on his cheek, cut his upper inside of his lip...
just because he thinks he can stand on his new riding toy and use it as a stool. It has wheels.

Lots of fun, and lots of love going on in this house. Oh, and lots of toys being picked up nightly by Tim and I.

FUN FUN FUN!

Happy New Year!

We're on TV!

My boys and I (and my mom and sister) went to visit the MOA Santa for the second year in a row. I love going here, as it's worth the drive for me for what you get. You can make an appointment and avoid standing in line, and then this special Santa really gives your kids some special 1 on 1 time.

We had made an appointment for a Monday and were one of the first appointments of the day, as I wanted it to be before lunch and naptime, and also to avoid a crazy mall. Double strollers take up enough room...

When we arrived, we were told that WCCO news station was there taping footage for a story and wondered if we were okay with our children being on TV. We of course said, "YES!" as how fun is that? They didn't know when the story would air, so fortunately some family and friends text messaged me and asked if that would have been our boys they just saw on TV.
Fortunately for the internet, we have been able to watch it ourselves and now I can share it on our blogsite.

Enjoy! It's a really great story about the Santa. Very sweet.

The Big Heart (And Hair) Of MOA’s Santa Claus « CBS Minnesota – News, Sports, Weather, Traffic, and the Best of Minnesota

The Big Heart (And Hair) Of MOA’s Santa Claus « CBS Minnesota – News, Sports, Weather, Traffic, and the Best of Minnesota

The Fox Boys, Christmas 2010

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Simply Exhausted!

It's only at the very end of my day, when my legs are wrapped up in a blanket, and the laptop is sitting on my lap, that I can actually smile and giggle at what kind of a whirlwind day I just experienced.

Today:

• I attempted to locate 2 of our 5 cordless phones. I found one in the diaper pail among the dirty diapers (just wet ones, the stinky ones go outside, but still). The other I found stuffed inside the couch cushions. On a part of the couch that we rarely sit on, so an adult did not place it there.
• In my search through the couch cushions, I found Landon's toothbrush that has been missing since Sunday (we went and bought 4 more on Monday), a smooshed banana crusted to the cushion, and Gage's "favorite" race car, or so he says.
• I found, and had to replace 2 of the register vents that the twins are currently obsessed with. I keep finding the vents off, and toys stuffed inside. Yesterday, I caught them sitting in my room, the vent out of the floor, and both had one leg sticking inside. Last weekend, I pulled roughly 20 Megablocks out of the vent, which curves down and becomes unreachable past a few inches. I have one heck of a scratch on my arm to prove I was digging.
• I found my hairbrush in my bathtub, next to two pantyliners (which were ruined because of the dripping faucet!)
  
• I picked up my pots and pans scattered throughout my kitchen not one, not two, but on three separate occasions.
• I only had to pick up my Tupperware/Rubbermaid containers once today. I think that's a record.

I can honestly say there is a whole lot more to add, but I'm afraid if I keep going, you may not believe me.

I never remember Gage being so "busy". Into everything. Constantly. I'm sure he was, and I'm sure it was just a whole lot easier since he was just one person, and he was my only. But holy crap.

It's a fun phase, and I'm trying my very best to enjoy it as I know it will pass much too quickly.

But I would be lying if I said I don't look forward to bedtime...just for a few hours to myself and some peace and quiet.