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Got a bit done today. This morning i continued my Bible reading. Read 10 chapters. Yay!

Did laundry, there is zippo cloths in the cloths basket YAY! And everything is is folded once it is out of the drier… next big thing will be to put everything away.

Also i completely cleaned my stove. Yay for self cleaning! (but that is only half the work). I even lifted up the top of the stove, cleaned under there… soaked the burner pan  and scrubbed them. Nice to have it all cleaned.

Oiled my island butcher block, needed it bad. Cleaned off the desk area in the kitchen. Vacuumed.

Haaa i did relax some though. I looked through like three home decoration magazines. Showered.

After Anabel’s nap she stayed up stairs for awhile just playing, which was cute.

Tonight i put on some up beat music on and did a dance work out. ZOMGosh how my stomach muscles hurt from dancing! I need to do that more often cause i want my tummy flatter.

There is a basket ball tournament going on at the high school so Bob is working tonight on through the weekend. So he is gone right now, but i’m hoping he will get home soon.

Haaaa i’m so tired already… goodness i have been tired all day long.

So i decided to get up each morning and read the Bible. I’ve been procrastinating making it a part of my daily ritual, sad ha? First thing in the morning usually Abby is still asleep and Anabel is awake. So I've been turning some cartoons on for her and i sit and read. I only started yesterday were i read 15 chapters and today i got 6 chapters in. I hope i can keep it up.

Last Sunday at church and Life Group what i kept getting ‘Intentional Living’ (yes it’s a radio program but that is not what i was thinking of) Something i wanted to do to make my daily life more intentional was with reading the Bible.

God needs to be a major part in our lives, not just a little side show. I’m trying to work on that, i challenge you to do that also!

OK so yes my house did get uber cluttered over our mid weekend (our two snow days). So today i tackled the mess and got almost everything cleaned up. Living room, dinning room, bathroom, hall… all done! I want to say the kitchen is done but i have a few more dishes to do and i need to get the recycling stuff down stairs in their bins but other then that it’s done. The biggest issue now is our bedroom, need to get that together. But i feel good with myself.

Right now both the girls are napping and i was able to get a nice shower. I used my new shower gel and lotion that my sis Jess gave to me for Christmas. I smell pretty ^_^

Now i am just relaxing… not sure what to do next. I could do laundry or maybe play some xbox live hehehe…..

Last couple of days of felt like the weekend, having Bob to myself all day long! He got two snow days in a row. It was great. We pretty much relaxed and chilled the whole time. Got a lot of Halo live playing in (fun).

First day we were able to get grocery shopping done and then i was able to totally clean out the refrig from leftovers (i had been slacking). Got the frig organized. Yay!

While at the store i picked up some yarn to crochet  Anabel a Larry the cucumber. We were over at the pastors house for life group and their son brought out a Larry and she went crazy over it. So i figured it would be fun to make her one. I also got some material for the living room curtains. I had my eye on the fabric for months. Then they put it on the discontinued wrack and i got worried. I still wasn’t at the point to buy it yet. It was on that wrack for weeks and every time i would be at the store i would check. Well Bob gave me the ‘ok’ to buy it the other day, ended up getting all that was left which was 4 and 1/3 yards. Hopefully that’s enough to make some nice curtains, if not i have some ideas how to make it go farther.

While on our mid weekend i did have fun in the kitchen. I made homemade chicken noodle soup, hot chocolate, snow cream and pecan crescents. Not all at once of course. It was fun and oh so yummy!

Now my goal is to get the house back in order so i can get to my crafts.

I think Anabel is going through a growth spurt. I know Abby just went through one. Now Anabel is eating like a horse! She was sick there for awhile and lost a lot of weight because she wouldn’t eat. Her pants looked huge on her and wouldn’t stay up. I was SO happy when she starting eating again. Now she is eating way more then she normally did, she is hungry all the time.

It’s kinda funny though when she gets hungry cause she comes to me and starts rattling off all the food she can think of ‘Mommy eggs, tomato, geen bean, icken (chicken), pasta, apple, nanas, Mommy ip (chip), asage (sausage)?’ LOL it cracks me up.

She never was into eating meat. Now she loves it. Once night she kept asking for more chicken and more chicken. She ended up eat 9 pieces of chicken nuggets along with green beans and olives. Now she eats at least 2 sausage links in the morning with her 2 eggs. She probably would eat more sausage but i’m trying to spread the food out..

I think i see a change in her face too, looking a little older. I do think it’s a growth spurt.

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About 6 mon. side by side

Anabel

Abigail

1-6-11

I’ve had mixed emotions today. I love to see my girls get bigger and do new things but part of me gets sad too, cause they grow so fast!

Today I finally broke down and got the 6-9mon. old cloths out of the closet. I had been putting it off, i kinda don’t want her to be that big. She isn’t even 6mon. yet while is weird for me cause Anabel was always so little for her age until recently. Now Anabel is in 18-24mon cloths and she is 20mon but even when Anabel was 12mon she could fit into some of the 3mon summer dresses, she’s always been short.

Anyways it’s cute and on the one side it’s good that Abby is in 6-9mon cause i have a ton more winter cloths in that size so that is nice.

Anabel use to eat the peal on an apple but now she wont it’s hilarious!

She was stealing my breakfast. She had already eaten 2 egg with cheese and then some noodles because she kept asking and asking for ‘pasta’ :) She adores pasta! Anyways…

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We had a great time during the Christmas season. Had my wonderful family over to my house for a Christmas celebrations which was tons of fun! I enjoyed it all! I just hope they all had a great time!

Then we headed over to the in-laws to spend a Christmas celebration with them, and had lots of fun there as well!

Anabel got every sick the day after the get together with the in-laws. She was throwing up like crazy. It was really sad! Then i ended up getting it. Yesterday was the first day that i felt back normal and Anabel too.

Bob is now back to work and i will miss him. He was a dear and took great care of us while we were sick, took up basically all of his vacation time :( boo for that, but i thank God that it happened on his vacation because i don’t know what i would have done with out him!

During our sick time though we got a lot of xBox time :) Played tons of Halo ODST together and racing. I got to play some Tomb Raider, got further then i ever could before, woot woot!

Yesterday i was trying to get back to normal. I took all the Christmas decorations down, pulled the Christmas tree outside and got the living room set back up to the way it usually is. Got several loads of laundry done and spent about an hour ironing all of Bob’s cloths (so happy to get that out of the way!)

I’m just hoping to get more done today!

Isn’t it crazy that it is 2011 already? My sister is having another baby (so excited), it’s already bringing good things.

I am adoring this time with my girls and seeing them grow. Abby seems to have gotten huge over a short time. Her feet are starting to touch the floor when she is in the walker and yesterday she even pushed herself backwards some when she was in it. Amazing, love it love it.

Just got a call from our dear friends from Alaska! They are in the states and they are coming to visit us tonight! SOOOOOOOOOO EXCITED! I have missed them like crazy!!!!

So i better go start my day fully!

Tootles Yo!