My life

This is an e-mail I just sent to Mitch. After reading it, I realized how ridiculous it sounded. I thought I would share:

Mitch,

Marin just discovered that all of the brownies were gone. She said, "Mom, were there only 3 brownies in the pan?!" Oops, I guess I ate the other 12. We just made more because she was so devastated. She said, "It's not very nice for moms to eat all the brownies!"

Kate discovered how to open the baby powder, you can imagine what followed. But don't worry, she cleaned up the mess with a whole box of wet wipes. She is currently in her crib for the 5th time this morning for pulling hair.

So how's you morning going?

Per Jaren's Request

Ha ha, my brother Jaren just posted on my Facebook wall that I needed to blog about Christmas. I was actually right in the middle of this post so he had perfect timing!

This year for Christmas we made the great trek to Wyoming to spend time with Mitch's family. It was chaotic and wonderful and all of us, especially Marin and Kate, had a great time. I tried to really soak everything in, because most likely we will be spending our next Christmases as a family at our own home. Of course, we'll have to go visit family immediately afterword or I would go nuts, but soon we'll have 3 kids and we'd like to start our own Christmas Eve and Christmas Day traditions.

I've said it before, I'll say it again: I am SO lucky to have married into the greatest family. I scored in the in-law department! Here are some pictures:



The McNiven family nativity play. Marin was Mary and very pleased with herself.


The loot:


Opening presents


Kate's favorite gift-- a vacuum!


Mitch and his new Skull Candy helmet and Marin's Rapunzel wig (Marin was pretty much closing her eyes in any of the pictures where I could actually get her to hold still).


It is crazy to think that next Christmas there will be some major differences for our little family. We'll likely be at home for the first time, in a (hopefully) finished basement, Marin will have started Kindergarten, Kate will be almost 3, and, of course, there will be some boy toys to even out our pink stash! Hope you all had as merry of a Christmas as the Moncurs!