Christmas 2013

This was our first Christmas in Italy, and it was a pretty good one.

I participated in the post Christmas Revue and we got to do all kinds of things with the kids, we decorated cookies and the Christmas tree, We were even sent a special guest by Santa. This was Logan's first real Christmas considering last year he was only a month old, and between that and his birthday he made out pretty well in the gift department. All in all it was a good Christmas for us, the only thing that would have made it better would have been having the rest of our family with us to celebrate.

here are are few pictures of our holiday season...

Happy Holidays everyone!

Mommy Monday - Nov. 2013

Age: 3 years
Height: 3ft 3in

Weight: about 35lbs

Favorite Food: Pasta

Favorite Fruit: Bananas

Favorite Movie: Search for Santa paws

Favorite TV Show: Ni Hao, Kai Lan

Other: Lilly had a lot of fun helping me get ready for Logan's party. On our trip to the circus she even got to sit on an elephant! Me and a friend took her to see the movie "Frozen" Lilly had a pretty great month.

Age: 1 YEAR!

Height: 2ft 4in

Weight: about 20 lbs

Diapers: size 3

Eats: 2-3 8oz. bottles a day, and lots of other food too!

Favorite Food: Cake

Other: Logan turned one this month! He had such a good time at his party and got lots of new toys. but i think his favorite part was eating the cake. He has also learned to wave "hello" and "goodbye". We even went to his first circus! It was a pretty fun and exciting month for Logan.

30 Days Of Thanks . . . Week Two

Left to Right ; Top to Bottom

I'm Thankful for...

1. Music and the messages its able to send
2. My fuzzy footwarmer
3. My morning coffee
4. Our Military and the sacrifices they've made for us.
5. Hot Chocolate on chilly fall nights
6. Movies for entertaining us
7. My Glasses for helping me see things more clearly.

SANTA! Oh My Gosh! SANTA'S COMING ! ! !

Yes.

I am one of those people. You know the ones... The ones that get way too excited for Christmas, way too early. Yep, that's me! 

I think that fact that i have to order Christmas gifts super early due to being overseas and all just makes it worse.

This year we will be introducing a reindeer to the kids... Kind of like the whole Elf on The Shelf thing but way cheaper. I just couldn't bring myself to spend $30 on a doll, so instead I found this cute $6 reindeer.



I plan on doing all the same things with this as you could do with the elf.

There are only 43 Days until Christmas and me and Lilly watch at least one Christmas movie a day thanks to Netflix. Here are some of our favorite holiday movies.

• National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
• A Christmas Story
• The Grinch Who Stole Christmas
• Polar Express
• Elf
• Home Alone
• The Santa Clause
• Jingle All The Way
• Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer
• Frosty The Snowman
• A Charlie Brown Christmas
• Mickey's Christmas Carol
• Santa Claus is Coming to Town
• Miracle on 34th Street
• Christmas with the Kranks

The list could go on an on. I promise not to post about Christmas again until after Thanksgiving.

30 Days Of Thanks . . . Week One

Happy NOVEMBER!

In honor of thanksgiving at the end of the month, I've decided to participate in the 30 Days of Thanks challenge via Instagram. So here goes nothing.

Top to Bottom : Left to Right

I'm Thankful for...

1. My husband, who loves an supports us every minute of everyday

2. My children, who are so beautiful and healthy

3. The opportunities I've had to see new and amazing places

4. My Green Bay Packers

5. My friends, both past and present through the good times and bad.

6. My family, those with us and those passed. They helped shape me into the person I am today.

&

7. The Internet, for keeping me connected to my friends and family both near and far.

Mommy Monday - October 2013

It was a nice month for our family. Mr W was working the day shift so he was home every night with us and the kids had a blast with all the fall/Halloween events that happened this month.

Age: 3 years

Height: 3ft 3in

Weight: about 35lbs

Favorite Food: Corndogs

Favorite Fruit: Apples

Favorite Movie: Ratatouille 

Favorite TV Show: Lazy Town

Other: Lilly had a fun month. It was a pretty eventful month. she had a sleep over and went trick or treating. She's been a little stir crazy though, due to the sudden abundance of rain. Over all she it was a good month for her.

Age: 11 Months

Height: 2ft 4in

Weight: about 19 lbs

Diapers: size 3

Eats: 3-4 8oz. bottles a day. Plus 1-2 jars of food and some regular food too

Favorite Food: Macaroni and Cheese

Other: Logan is getting SO big! he is crawling and sitting and playing and climbing and standing! He even got to celebrate his first Halloween! he ate a lot of lollipops and even a few chocolate bars. He likes to play with his sisters stuff more than his own but what younger sibling doesn't?

See you all in November!

Caution! Monster Crossing

This was our first year doing Halloween in Italy and it was nice....for the most part.

I'd heard rumors about how crazy trick or treating gets on Halloween (because Garrison lets the Italians into housing in order to be hospitable and make nice with the locals) but I though people were just exaggerating, but no... they go NUTS! There had to be a couple thousand people here. We ran out of candy in 15 MINUTES!!!

But That is okay because the USO did a very nice Trunk n Treat with games and food and other activities and some people on the housing development organized a Pre-Trick or treat for the younger kids and did a great job it was nice to have some alternatives to avoid the rush and crowds.

This was also Logan's First Halloween and his favorite candy this year was the suckers and Lilly just loved everything you gave her.  They were dressed up as Mike and Sulley, from Monsters Inc. Lillly had so much fun helping me carve the pumpkins and decorate our house. and she even helped me hand out some candy today!

And now that Halloween is over for us my little skeleton friends are saying goodbye until next year. I'm not sure if i'll find anything small to use for November, but I've already got my December theme picked out! 

Happy Halloween Everyone!

Stay Safe and Have fun!

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