Kid Free Night!

It is not often that Dan and I get to go out sans kiddos, and even less often that we get to do it with our friends. It is a rare occasion that everyone can get babysitters at the same time.

BUT we succeeded in doing this on Saturday, and we went out to celebrate Kristin's last birthday in her 20's. We went to a Mexican Restaurant, ate and drank and didn't have any kids to chase after or share our food with. Then we went to a bar...a real honest to goodness bar! And we drank, and laughed and enjoyed ourselves until 1 in the morning! It was great!

Better late than never....

I'm finally getting around to writing out my goals for 2011.

This year I'd like to purge my home of all the extra crap I have shoved into cupboards, closets, and drawers.

Eat in at least 5 days a week....we have a horrible habit of eating out and/or getting take out when I'm too tired to cook or can't be bothered to fix something. So this year my goal is to cook dinner at least 5 nights a week. And with this I'd like to branch out from making my standard dishes every week.

Lose weight, as always this is a goal for the year. I have a feeling that I'll be attending a few weddings in the next year or two so it would be nice if I could wear the dresses I want to wear and feel comfortable in them.

Stick to my budget, I am awful at budgeting...absolutely awful. So my goal for this year is to cut down on my frivolous spending in a hope to stick to my budget better.

I plan to update here my ability to adhere to my goals for the year, to keep myself accountable.
And so far this week I've cooked dinner 5 nights, so I'm happy with my progress!

Wordless Wednesday

At the park

We are lucky to have a great park just up the street from our house, it is so nice to be able to pop up there and let the kids expend some energy...and lately soak up some amazing sunshine!

Addison LOVES the swings...(please excuse her crazy hair, this was just before they got their stitches out so she hadn't had a bath in a while.)

Natalie wanted in on the swing action but the other swing was occupied so she jumped in with Addison....good thing she's skinny!

Kids are so resiliant...

In less than one week, they went from this....

To this!

Amazing!!!

They are all healed up now, we had stitches removed on Friday and they did great! They can now run and jump and climb as much as they'd like!

We do have to have a follow up appointment in about 3 months for both girls just to check on them and then after that they will want to follow Addison until she is potty trained. They aren't concerned with re tethering since It was a simple tether and repair but they still like to monitor them.

I'm so relieved to have all of this behind us.

2011 Reading....

So far I've read 4 books and am about half way through my 5th book.
In case your interested I'll update here what I'm reading, and give a quick review of some of them.
*bold = the books that I really enjoyed.

1. Size 12 Is not Fat by Meg Cabot I really liked this book, it was a fun mystery/chick lit book. The main character Heather is hilarious. This was the first Meg Cabot book I've read, and I liked her writing, the characters were well developed and fun. The story moved along quickly and overall I really enjoyed this book.

2. Three to get Deadly by Janet Evanovich This is the 3rd in the Stephanie Plum series, and so far I LOVE these books. I'm slowly working my way through the series. The characters are all so fun, Stephanie is hilarious and totally fun.

3. Stuck in the Middle by Virginia Smith UGH! I downloaded this book to my kindle because it was free and had decent ratings, but I failed to read the reviews. This was a Christian Chick Lit, and it was LAME! I didn't realize it was a Christian book until I was about a quarter into it and by that time I wanted to know what was going to happen. I really should have just quit while I was ahead. This book was super religious, but I was able to get past that, I was not however able to get past how poorly developed the characters were. The issues that the main character faced were just ridiculous, as were her solutions. Overall a total waste of my time, but at least it was free.

4. Jemima J By Jane Green OMG I LOVED this book. I loved the characters, I loved the writing style, I loved the storyline I LOVED it. At first I was a bit put off by the disdain for fat people, but once I realized where the author was going I was able to really get into the story. I fell in love with Jemima and the other characters, and when I finished the book (in just about 2 days since I couldn't put it down) I was just happy. It was a happy, feel good book, and overall a great read!

5. Four to Score by Janet Evanovich I'm currently about half way through this book, it's hilarious like the prior 3 books and I can't wait to see what happens to Stephanie. *I finished this book, it was of course hilarious like the previous books, but this one had a little more steamy romance which was a nice addition.

Back to the grind....

I've been off work for 2 weeks with the girls while they recovered. In reality after the first week they were fine and I probably could have gone back to work but I had already been approved for the time off and thought it would be a good chance to spend some time with my girls.
We had a great time, went to the park a couple times, went to an indoor play place, ran errands and just hung out.d we
But now all the fun has come to an end...and I have to go back to work tomorrow. I will really miss my girls, they are growing like weeds and amazing me every day.