January

In a way I feel like we've been in hibernation so far this month.  While we've haven't done a whole lot, we also have still stayed what feels like very busy.  I have very little pictures of anything at all.

But in the spirit of keeping up with the daily stuff here's a little picture dump. 

On New Years Eve we went to Zoo Lights.

The short story is that it was SOOOO cold.

Kids were all miserable and very few animals could be seen.

Great idea .. but a bust.

Jackson took a shot to the mouth.

Massive bloody mess .. no lost teeth.

TONS of snow packed running.

It's pretty .. but makes me slow.  I'm never actually cold though so at least that's good.

See I added a neck warmer to my Winter arsenal this year.

It has come in REALLY handy.

Jackson took another shot to the eye from his brother.

Ended up with a really decent black eye by the next day.

Yep it's been REALLY cold.

 

 Our blender broke.

We've been blending protein smoothies for breakfast for months now on my regular Kitchen Aid.

We wore it out.  

The sticker price was REALLY hard to swallow.

But my mum convinced me by pointing out once I got over the sticker shock I would probably be really glad I'd bought it.  She was right.  Of course.

Oliver with his morning coffee.

All my kids LOVE coffee.

Really it's just the last swallow of my coffee.

He's just so darn cute though.

In other news, Jackson took yet another blow rough housing with Wyland and knocked a tooth out yesterday.  Seriously this kid is the oldest and he's the one that gets hurt the most.  We got our Christmas tree down before New Years (I was SO happy about that).

I read somewhere, or saw somewhere that it's okay to have a lot of stuff as long as everything has a home.  I've really taken this to heart.  2013 is going to be a lot of organizing at our house.  Hopefully we'll finish painting and also get the back yard under control finally.  I figure that if we have the use of our deck and a decent back yard that we would have more space for entertaining in the summer.  So with two big vacations, we'll be trying to save lots of money which means more time at home.  So that time will be spent cleaning and organizing and getting our shit together at the house.  I'm actually excited about this.  I know it will be so worth it in the long run.

Anyone else have big goals for 2013?