12/4/10 - Picture Day!

Today we had a fun, family day together. We all woke up nice and early and I made a big breakfast feast for us. After we ate, we hung out for a little while. Amelia went down for her nap pretty early, but, luckily, she took a nice long nap. Christian went outside to plow the drive way and clean up the garage a little bit while Olivia and I played. He finally came inside and I started on my chores. The basement was a complete DISASTER. The basement used to be kind of our main living area. We had the big TV down there, the DVR, the nice comfy couch. Since having Amelia, we rarely go down there, so it’s become the dumping grounds of the house. It was time to tackle the disaster. I cleaned and vacuumed the carpet, picked up and reorganized toys, cleaned up the laundry room and the storage under the stairs, finally packed some of the old kids’ clothes away and everything was nice and fresh again! Seeing that we are never down there, hopefully it will stay that way!

Finally we had some lunch and showered. The girls woke up and we got them all cleaned up and dressed to take our Christmas picture! I’m trying to be more efficient about sending our cards out this year…hopefully people will get them sooner than the week of Christmas! Ha. I must say, the picture taking was much more successful than I expected! The very first shot we took ended up being the best one…Olivia actually sat down, looked at the camera and even smiled! We couldn’t believe it. Of course, Amelia is not looking at the camera in the least bit, but we can deal with that.

After dinner and some more playing, the girls went down to bed, and Christian left to hang out with a friend from work for a while. I hopped on the computer to order our cards and play online for a while. I had great expectations of enjoying my alone time and catching up on the DVR…but decided to just go to bed instead. I sure hope one day I won’t be exhausted 24/7!

A lot of my readers will be getting a card, but here's our Christmas picture anyway!