Thursday, December 24, 2009 at 08:55 AM

 

From the Meierotto Family.... hoping you all have a holiday filled with happiness :)

Grateful for a great holiday

We were a busy bunch over Thanksgiving.  Our home hosted 2 Thanksgiving dinners & some overnight guests & lots of busy-ness!  Thankfully we had healthy kids & most everyone could make it.  It is so nice getting together with everyone to share good food & just be able to talk & enjoy each others company.   Dan's brother Allen had to spend Thanksgiving in the hospital unfortunately, but seems to be doing pretty well now at home.  We were very thankful that his mom was able to make it out & that his dad got to have some "away time" as well!  We continue to pray for everyone to be well :) 

I got in on some black Friday shopping, which I was going to avoid, but caved & decided to venture out to a few places with my mom & sister.  I actually had some pretty good luck & the crowds weren't too awful.  Then I made it back home to decorate the house for Christmas!  I was so happy to have a relaxing afternoon to just do that.  It seems in prior years I have put it off & end up getting so busy I have to just throw everything up & it's not any fun!  Everything is going to get pretty crazy over the next few weeks before Christmas with work projects, Christmas programs, basketball & oh yeh, I'm lucky enough to get to travel to Florida with Reminisce right before the holiday!!!!  Right now all the kids know is that I'm going on a work trip.  Believe me if I made mention of where I'm going, I'll never hear the end of it!  

This afternoon Dan & I are traveling to Iowa City for a little Christmas shopping & the Reminisce holiday dinner.  We're pretty excited to get some time away with each other & getting together with the Reminisce group is always so much fun!  I'm really so very blessed to have such great people to work with {& for}.  Speaking of Reminisce, it would be a smart thing to hop on over to blog to check out all the great things going on... I'm talkin' Design team search & a travel contest!  Lots of cold hard cash & prizes are just waiting to come your way!!!  Good luck everyone!

so thankful....

for these 3 handsome men in my life....

for brothers, even if they always can't get along...

for this little chatterbox & her cute words....

& the girly-ness she adds to my life...

for a peaceful place to play & live...

for a long & happy marriage, for the love of family & friends, for a home we love...

for all this & more... I'm so very THANKFUL
 
 
 

the walking dead + a super cute costume

Ok, so I've always loved thinking of what the kids could be for Halloween.  The boys were so fun when they were little.  I could make them up a costume like a monkey, or a cow, or a puppy & they'd be cute as could be.  Well, we're past that stage with them now... over the last few years it's been Star Wars characters, which is fine.  But this year I caved.  This year they are both grim reaperish type characters with fake blood... just what I've always wanted my children to be.  Boys.

Girls, on the other hand, especially our 2 year old girly girl, is the highlight of the holiday.  Last year, I found a great deal on a Gymboree butterfly costume for her & was impressed by it's quality & cuteness quotient, so this year, I started scanning Ebay for Gymboree costumes.  I found the perfect thing... a fairy costume.  It was perfect, since one of her new favorite books as of late was a really cute book about fairies.  There are 4 little fairies in the book & she's renamed them all: Lydia, Kodi, Alexis & Natalie {her little daycare buddies}.  Anyway, when Dan & I went shopping for the boys costumes, we made a quick detour to the Gymboree store & I think I could have jumped up & down when I found the fairy costume ON SALE in the store!  My find payed off when we got home & showed Lydia her costume.  She had to try it on immediately & kept saying things like "I'm a princess", "this is my costume", "it's pretty nice", "I'm cute" while twirling around like a ballerina.  So here's a sneak peak... can't wait to take them all trick or treating Thursday...

pumpkin carving

After going to the pumpkin patch, the boys couldn't wait to carve their pumpkins {they're now in the garage refrigerator trying to avoid beetles & the warmer weather}.  I think we'll get them out tonight & light them up!  

Collin had an idea in his head of how he wanted to have his pumpkin look & went right to work after we got rid of all the inside yuck!  Evan had an idea, but his pumpkin was rock hard, so in true Dan fashion, he pulled out the cordless drill to help Evan out with his plan.  They say dogs look like their owners, how about pumpkins & their carvers?  

As for Lydia & her tiny pumpkin, we opted for the marker, which she was more than happy with.  I think it's pure genius!