Pictures- finally!

Well I deleted my "Flickr uploadr" because it has proven to be crap. I just did it on the website like I should have been doing forever. Anyway all the pictures from October to current are up and ready for your viewing pleasure. There's some pretty cute ones in there I must say.

Christmas Extravaganza

Let me recap the last 3 days for you. Tuesday- work till 2:30, then off to Robin's for her birthday at 4. Dinner (stir fry and parmesan cashew salad) and then presents with Robin, Steve, Tony and his current girlfriend, Avery and Tim. Home by 10, in bed by 11:30.

Wednesday- work till 1:30, nap till 3 something. To Deanna's at 4, dinner (prime rib, mashed potatoes, stuffing balls, and lots of cookies and sweets), then presents with Bob and Deanna, Dan, Carol, Ashley and Nicole, Tony, Avery and Tim. Home by 10, in bed by 11.

Thursday- no work! Slept in till 9, bath and getting ready, leave at 11 to Tim and Nancy's. Snacks of a delicious cheese ball with chipped beef and green onions, fruit, cookies, etc. Lunch (ham/turkey, stuffing, green beans, mashed potatoes and gravy, dinner rolls) and then presents with Tom and Lori, Trent, Tim and Nancy, Crystal and James, Emily, Bear, Grandma Alice, Avery and Tim. Whew. Home at 3, nap by 4.

Upon awakening, Tim hurried back over so Avery could start tearing into her presents here with me and my parents. She wanted to play with everything as she opened it, but we kept having to tell her "there's more, keep going!" and by the end I think she was actually getting a little worn out from opening presents. We saved her stocking for tonight because she was on present unwrapping overload. She would have played all night but she was getting tired and very sensitive (aka crying at the drop of a hat). So we went to bed by 11.

I stayed up trying to upload all these pictures from the past few days but Flickr uploader is absolutely not cooperating with me. By midnight or so I gave up and went to bed.

Around 3 Avery woke up in hysterics and came down to bed with me. Still sleeping soundly at 9 am this morning I messaged Robin and asked her to come a little bit later so she could sleep in. Around 10:30 she got up and we quick got dressed so she'd be ready for Grandma by 11. She played with some of her stuff and then off she went. I came back downstairs to work on the uploading issue again only to have the same problems. Once again I am giving up for the time being and am braving the stores to do exchanges and returns. When I get home I think it will be time to curl up on the couch and watch some Bones since I got seasons 2 and 3 from Tim that I've been waiting for!

Just for fun I'll try to list some of the goodies I got this Christmas: Bones season 2 & 3, Britney Spears- Circus cd, the Killers- Day & Age cd, books: Dewey the small town library cat who touched the world by Vicki Myron, Your Heart Belongs to Me by Dean Koontz, The Hour I First Believed by Wally Lamb, gift cards: Starbucks, Caribou, IHOP, Culvers, car washes, a digital picture frame, a Timbuktu bag, Paris Hilton Can-can perfume, a heated matress pad, 3 awesome sweaters, a hello kitty shirt, Black & White pants, slippers, snowmen electric candles, a red and gold glittery candle holder (which I promptly dropped and broke that night), 2 wall plaques with Harmony and Hope in chinese, a picture with a chinese scroll type thing enclosed, various good smelling tolitries, socks, annnnnnnd
I think thats all my brain can process right now. Lots of awesome stuff. Thankyou everyone!!!

Ho Ho Ho

Santa just came to the Meier/Warner house and it was a doozy. Let me tell you, carting up like 5 large bags, plus 10 or so random large packages up the stairs is tiring work! I earned that cookie and milk. Apparently the stocking stuffers were a bit too large this year because I couldn't fit all the stuff in them and had to dump some of it under the tree! Then I'm tired and ready to go to bed, I come kneel on my bed in the dark only to discover a liquidy vomit spot on my clean comforter. Merry Christmas to you too Riley. I may be with holding some Christmas treats for your pukey little self. But on that note I'm goin to bed!

Christmas Trip

Well it looks like I will be missing yet another trip to Hancock, WI to see my family this year. Last year I had to work, and this year its all ready to go and some crazy snow storm has to be charging their way. We had everything ready to go too. So there's a lot of food and treats at my house if anyone is interested!

So instead I will still be attending my work holiday party tomorrow as planned, and then going to Grumpy's for the unofficial after party. Then I get to go to my show at Epic and boogy down.

Avery is awaiting Santa's arrival very patiently. She's almost certain he will bring Tan Bear's brother Chaucer. And she just might be right. ;)

Princess Night

Tierney and Avery attended Disney Princess night at Valley Dance Studio in Stillwater tonight. We dropped them off at 5:30 and came at 7:15 to see them perform the dance they learned that night. Tierney began crying as soon as my mom told her to go with the rest of the girls, and then Avery refused to dance with her group and stayed planted by my side.

They also did crafts and had a snack there, one which ended on both of their dresses and not the one I hoped. Glitter glue on the dresses, both of which belong to Avery. Great. So hopefully they had fun while they were gone, because I sure didn't enjoy us being there. My mom and I went to Target while we had time to kill and that was mildly disappointing as well.

Next week Friday we leave for WI. I think I'll need therapy again soon.

Neillsville Trip

Sleeping in till 1:30 today helped defray the stress of yesterdays "festivities". We left for WI at 8:15ish, and I got up around 7:30. Avery was comatose in bed next to me until approximately 8:00. She opted to not get a bath and stay in her pajamas in lieu of a little more sleep. My mom rode in the back in between the two booster seats. They didn't sleep a wink on the way there. We made it by about 10:30 and no one was killed.

The family members in attendance included my cousin Jamie and her husband Nick, their baby Braxton, my cousin Matt, my Aunt Lisa, Uncle Doug, Aunt Donna, Grandma, Grandpa and Great Uncle... spacing on the name right now. So it was pretty full in my grandparents house. Tierney and Avery were munching on white chocolate pretzels, chocolate stars, chocolate covered raisins, and chex mix like there was no tomorrow. They managed to eat a small portion of lunch, but thats not what they were really interested in.

I watched the Little Mermaid, 101 Dalmations, and Pinocchio mostly by myself, as the girls were downstairs doing laps around the pool table, and slamming balls all over the table, miraculously not getting their fingers smashed in the process. My grandma found some little dolls for them to play with and my Aunt Lisa and Jamie had gotten them Tinkerbell coloring books and crayons, but they were more interested in the pink tissue paper for beds for themselves and their dolls.

I held and fed Braxton quite a bit and he's a very content little boy. He only cried once while we were there, and thats understandable because my aunt Donna was holding him. ;) I forgot my camera, so any pictures taken are on my moms. Those are few because the thing is practically falling apart and it makes for annoying picture taking.

The ride home was quiet, because the girls passed out about 10 minutes into the drive. We woke them up for McDonalds, but suprisingly Avery wasn't up for eating at all. When we got home, I plunked her in the bath, then we watched a little tv when she got her second wind and went to bed by 10.

I played around on the internet for a bit then realized I hadn't seen my cat since we got home. I shook his food canister and poured him a bowl and when he still didn't show up I found that very odd. I went to go upstairs to look for him but didn't quite make it. I fell back down and landed on my foot. I thought I might have sprained my ankle at first but its not really my ankle as much as the top of my foot. I'm not sure what I did exactly, but it still hurts today. Hopefully that will pass, I have enough medical issues with my mouth! Anyway I called for my mom when that happened and we practically tore the house apart looking for Majik. We called the neighbors that had watched the dogs, and found that Roger had played with him in the afternoon and Chris hadn't taken him to the vet or anything later in the day. He hates being outside so I just couldn't imagine him taking off. Finally when we were ready to give up for the night we heard a plain meow, as opposed to the other small sounds we had heard before. Turns out he was stuck inside, underneath the leather couch in the family room. My mom had to lift the couch while I pulled him out. After all that work I was mad at him, but really I was just happy he was okay.

And THAT was my Saturday. Lord help me if Christmas turns out similarly.

Thanksgiving

Well its "Black Friday" and I actually did go out into the fray. Kmart and the Maplewood Mall. I didn't really accomplish all that much because I've been done with my own Christmas shopping for awhile. I did pick up a few things for Tierney for my mom though. Tierney is here and went and got her pictures taken at Sears with my mom, then Avery is going on Dec. 12th. Avery is with Robin, they went to the Como Zoo today with Steve and his grandson Soren.

Yesterday we went to Robin's for our Thanksgiving dinner. Bob and Deanna, and Dan and Nicole were there and of course Tim, Avery and I, along with Robin and Steve. Avery and I came home for a short nap afterwards then she went to Tim's for a few hours before bed.

Tomorrow we are going to Neillsville to see my cousin Jamie and her new baby Braxton, along with the rest of the family. I didn't realize Tierney was coming as well so we have a full car. At least its not too long of a drive, however I wish I had brought my ear buds home from work.

It feels like Sunday and its only Friday. I like getting paid for not coming into work. I wish I could do it more often!