Day 31. happy new years!

Holding her seahorse, and all dressed up for new years :)

                This is the last day of 2011! Mat and I are ready for 2012, and we are determined to make it a better year! We are going over to Kelly and Matt's house tonight to ring in the new year, and hopefully the kids sleep through it :) The blog will be getting a new look tomorrow, so look for that! One of my resolutions this year is to finally get the house clean and organized the way I want it.. I've gotten a start on it already, and I will follow through!! I also am making a resolution to be happier, this year has had some rough patches, and Belgium has a way of getting me down sometimes, and in 2012, I'm putting a stop to that...hopefully :) lol. This is a short blog, because we're getting ready to go for the night, and we wont be back til' tomorrow. but check the blog, because as long as I'm not too hungover lol, there will be one tomorrow!    I love you all, and have a happy and safe new years eve!!! 

Day 30

She really loves my waterbottle

watching scooby doo

playing in the kitchen

                       Kay seems to be feeling better today, she woke up in the middle of the night, but went back to sleep pretty quickly, and slept in until 10, so I was happy! I got the kitchen mopped and some laundry put away today, how exciting... And discovered that Kay has a moderate interest in Scooby doo, which is good, because that show doesnt drive me nearly as crazy as elmo or sesame street does. And I havent seen every single episode of Scooby doo, like I have elmo, at least 35 times. On a very exciting note, we signed the paperwork to buy a car today!!! :) It's not the Suzuki that we originally planned on buying, because we still haven't heard back from the guy about getting the American title. It wouldn't be a huge deal to wait a bit if we still had Mat's car, but since it's broken and stuck in Germany, and we're just going to junk it anyways, it's a little more important to get a new car soon. I don't drive anywhere that much, but with Mat's horrible schedule lately, we don't have time to go grocery shopping together, (the commissary is open weird hours and days) and I like going to playgroup with Kay from time to time, and there is just no way I am getting me and Kay out of bed at 5am to drive mat to work lol, neither of us are morning people, it just wouldnt work. So we've been looking online and found a good car in Germany that is pretty much perfect. We're buying a 2007 Ford Freestyle, the highest model they made. It has leather interior, and DVD players built into the back seats, 7 seats, heated front seat, and plenty of space. We'll have plenty of room when people come to visit, and we'll actually have extra room in the car when we have Breanna with us. and they can watch dvds when we take long car trips! So I am really excited about it, we're going to Germany to look at it and hopefully pick it up on the 4th or 5th. yay! Once we get it I'll post some pics :) Going to go get groceries with my friend Kelly tomorrow, then I think we're going over to their house to ring in the new year. So, I love you and happy Friday!

day 29

up close and personal with Kay

                    Well I got my mopping done today, and took down the Christmas tree and decorations, I was going to leave them up until New Years, but I don't think we would have any ornaments left if I did, Ninja has broken two since christmas day..So I took them down today, while KayLeigh was supposed to be napping...but she didn't want to cooperate, so she went to bed really early tonight after her bath. Her fever isnt very high today, but she still doesnt seem to be feeling very well, neither are Mat or I. Hopefully we all start feeling better soon! LOve you all! I"m going to bed early myself :)

Day 28

day 28- relaxing with her goat

                           KayLeigh woke up about an hour earlier than she normally does today, and I don't really feel well, so we snuggled on the couch this morning and watched Elmo, because that's the only thing that she will sit still for! When she went down for her nap, I took a nap too! So nothing really happened in our house until after 12... Mat was off today, so we went to get a few groceries. Every time we go to the commissary now, KayLeigh walks in and says "car car" because she wants the car grocery cart lol. It seems like she understands so much more of what I say know, she was asking for a cookie which sounds more like "cacky" when she says it, and I told her to go sit on her booty on the couch and she could have one, I didnt really expect her to know what I said, but she went right over to the couch and sat down! She asks for baths "ba" before she goes to bed now, she looks into the bathroom longingly and says "ba?" when we go upstairs to go to bed. She is still very attached to her binky bear, although his girlfriend security forces bear will do as a substitute... She is enjoying all of her Christmas gifts and cycles though all of them as the day goes on. today she was trying to put her little elmo figurine from the playset into rock n'roll elmo's mouth... apparently elmo is a cannibal now... lol. She helps me pick up her mega blocks as long as  I clap or say thank you after every single block she picks up lol. She sang me a nice song before she went to bed tonight, I have no idea what she said, but it was still cute :)

                           Thats it for today.. tomorrow is going to be lazy too. I need to mop, and thats my big plan for tomorrow lol. hope you all are having a good after Christmas week! :) 

Day 27

cheese!!!!

. 

KayLeigh's showing off her new Ohio State overalls from Grandma Lewis. We just relaxed today while Mat was at work, seems like both Kay and I are coming down with a bit of a cold, so we took it easy today. Still no snow here in Belgium, just rain. I cleaned the house up a bit today, it still looks like a toystore exploded downstairs though, because Kay likes to take all her megabloks and dump them out on the floor and then try and walk through them lol.  And that's really all we've been up too, just relaxing after all the holiday crazy-ness!!

Day 26

Brody and Kayleigh drinking milk together

watching elmo :)

Today was pretty relaxed, KayLeigh is coming down with a cold, at least it waited until after the holidays! HOpe you enjoy the Kayleigh of the day, it is her first christmas pictures compared to this year...you can see how her opinion of santa has changed!!! 

Christmas day

KayLeigh loves her new pirate ship ride-on! :)

                    Today was a good day! :) Kay woke up a little before 8am, which is pretty normal for her, so we all went downstairs and opened up all her presents. After opening one, she would get distracted and want to play with it of course, and didn't want to open anymore, so it took a little while to get through all her gifts! Mat and I opened ours last night after Kay went to bed, so we wouldnt have so much to do today, and thank goodness, because we had our hands full with helping kayleigh and playing with her new toys all day :) Mat put her pirate ship together last night so it was ready to go this morning when she came downstairs, and every present she opened, she had to go sit on the ship with it and take it for a ride! lol. I think she had a good christmas, and it was nice that she was actually excited and wanted to open things, and understood that there was neat stuff hiding underneath all that paper! 

                    After we opened all Kay's presents we took a nice nap on the couch together. well, she watched elmo and cuddled with us and her new toys, and mat and I took a nap lol. Then we got up and snacked a bit, and played some more while Mat started the enchiladas for dinner, then kay had a nap, and Mat and I took another one as well! We watched some Christmas movies and just hung out until we had some friends over for dinner, KayLiegh played with her bff Brody, and we had a good night being with friends as well. all in all a good Christmas, it would have been better if we had Breanna with us, but at least we got to talk to her :) hope you all had a good holiday, and I love you!! Merry Christmas!!!