SOOO... Mike and I have talked for a long time about every Christmas (and all year for that matter) adopting a family or charity ect... This year, one of my personal resolutions is to do more of these types of things. I personally feel not only does it do a lot of great things for those of us that are less fortunate, but it helps us (and our children) appreicate the things we have WAY more and helps us to not get caught up in the material soooo much. By posting this I hope it is a way for ALL of you to hold me personally responsiable to KEEPING my resolution!! I plan on posting to keep you all up to date with our progress and to hopefully give everyone some inspiration and ideas of things we can all do. I am by no means planning on doing as much as I would hope I could do but just little bits! Next year for Christmas instead of buying gifts for everyone (except for the kids) we hope to adopt a family like ours. I encourage any one who wants to join in this to do so, also feel free to come to me if u need info, or would like to donate. This is gonna be A GREAT YEAR!!! Happy New Years everyone feel free to comment on all of your resolutions!!

Sorry for the delay having issues with my computer!! Merry Christmas everyone!! Well Santa came to our house BIG time (and Michaels grammy's, Michaels Nana and Papas, and pretty much everyone else house we've been too). The BIG toy Santa brought was his ball pit (the big frog at the top) he gets to use it in the summer as a pool too!! Mommy and Daddy pretty much had to wake him up that day first tme in months hes slept that late and we had lots of places to be that day! Plus we couldnt stand it any longer!! My WHOLE family came over Christmas Eve for dinner, it was great needless to say as usall it left me and Mike feeling as if we need a bigger house ;) Then Christmas day Mikes dad AKA Papa came over to watch him open presents, then off to Magas, Papas and Grammys house (my mom and grandparents) he opened a ton of stuff there (well we did, Michael enjoyed a wide cuisine of paper and bows, tasty!) we had a nice breakfast and then off to Aunties Jen and Uncle Joes house with ALL of his cousins and Aunties! (For the record Michael has appox 14 Aunties!!!) (Most of them blood). Then we had one last stop to the Crazy mans house that has appox 50-75 blow up Christmas decorations!! A MUST SEE;) FFEEWW that its another major milestone over :( MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE!!!

Some pretty cute pictures if I do say so myself! Ok, ok sorry havent posted in forever but I am sure you all have noticed its CHRISTMAS!!! These are some pics w/ santa. (sorry if they are "dodgy" ;) LOL) If you read my cousins Tara's blog you know I had to take them off of their area and as you can see I dont have a steady hand so when you zoom its blurry. So of course I paid $20 for 1--5x7 so I had a good one!! ( I honestly dont think it is much better than mine) But what else is Christmas for but to shell out the dough! I am kiding of course Christmas is my favorite holiday so thats why I havent been posting because I try my hardest to do every possiable fun Christmas tradition there is, not to mention it is my busiest time at work. If anyone has a different or favorite traidtion they wanna share with me i would love to hear them! Hope you all enjoy the next week or two cuz thats about all we have left for this year. Probebly wont post again until after the holiday so everyone have a happy and safe holiday season---Lisa

BOYS WILL BE BOYS!!