It’s Saturday!  Time for a quick review of our week in photos.

Day #29 – 1/29/10

Someone didn’t sleep during naptime.  So someone crashed out on the couch just before dinner.

Day #30 – 1/30/10

I bought these little mailboxes from the $1 bins at Target and had the kids each decorate their own.  We set them out until Valentine’s Day for the kids to put little notes and pictures in each others boxes.

Day #31 – 1/31/10

My new favorite drink – I probably have 4 cups a day.  LOL.  Thank you, Lipton.

Day #32 – 2/1/10

My awesome computer tech performing surgery on my baby – she was out of commission for a few days!

Day #33 – 2/2/10

I think this photo speaks for itself.

Day #34 – 2/3/10

E chillin’ outside

Day #35 – 2/4/10

Wow – this post will complete one month of taking a photo every single day!  It’s getting easier to remember to do it but I’m really surprised that I haven’t missed one yet!  LOL.

Here’s week #4!

Day #22 – 1/22/10

It was SO cold and rainy that the snow level dropped REALLY low on the mountains.  This is a shot from our front yard looking towards the back.

Day #23 – 1/23/10

The boys had been playing video games for a while and T hadn’t gotten a chance to play.  So we let her have some Wii time all by herself.  She wanted to play Mario Kart and was so good at it that the boys were all sitting around cheering her on!

Day #24 – 1/24/10

Ahhh.  Fruit.  Delicious, glorious fruit.  I hadn’t had a piece of fruit for two weeks and I enjoyed every bite of this apple!

Day #25 – 1/25/10

Today I went with E’s class to the Discovery Science Center.  It was VERY chaotic, but E had a blast which is what counts – right?

Day #26 – 1/26/10

Ok – so today’s picture isn’t the least bit exciting.  But it represents how I spent a chunk of my day: photographing things to use in my latest digital scrapbooking kit.  I coverted this drawer face into a worn wooden board for a cowboy kit I just did!

Day #27 – 1/27/10

Wow.  The moon was crazy cool tonight.  The clouds were moving quickly so I didn’t have time to set up my tripod or anything so the quality of these isn’t perfect, but the picture still turned out pretty cool!

Day #28 – 1/28/10

Uh-oh.  Someone has offended her royal highness.

I can’t believe I’m still here and still going!  It makes me feel good – like I might actually accomplish completing this project!!

Here are my photos from this week.  It’s been a week full of rain and storms and staying indoors.

Day #15 – 1/15/10

T bowling  – she stood like this EVERY time she’d roll the ball!

Day #16 – 1/16/10

The remnants of Tiana’s artistic creativity strewn about the kitchen.  She looooves cutting paper.

Day #17 – 1/17/10

Playing a game of Tripoly at my parents’ house last weekend – it was E’s first experience playing with the adults

Day #18 – 1/18/10

The four monkeys watching the rain outside

Day #19 – 1/19/10

T and her cute little cousin

Day #20 – 1/20/10

The beginning of a small lake in our backyard – it POURED this week!

Day #21 – 1/21/01

G & T goofing around as usual

It’s Saturday! That means it’s time to post all of last week’s pictures for Project 365.  Enjoy!

Day 8 – 1/8/10.

We had a family fun night at the boys’ school tonight and went to have pizza. The kids all had hot chocolate. We were warned that it was REALLY hot so I made them let it sit for about 10 minutes before trying to drink it. Tiana started fanning hers and before I could tell her to stop she dumped it into her lap. She was SCREAMING bloody murder. The brought me ice and a school tshirt to put her in. There was a dr there (one of the teacher’s husbands) who checked her out and said she looked ok. She was bouncing around like normal about 20 minutes later. But she looked so cute in her oversized tshirt and cowboy boots that I had to take a picture when we got home.

Day #9.

This is Eli’s ni-night that he’s had since he was a baby. Look at that disgusting, shredded thing. HAHAHAHA. I don’t know if it’ll even survive another washing.

Day #10 – 1/10/10.

Eli working on his 4th grade California mission project

Day #11 – 1/11/10.

The mission project is DONE and Eli is ready to take it to school.

Day #12 – 1/12/10.

My baby boy at school

Day #13 – 1/13/10.

One of my most favorite Jedi knights.

Day #14 – 1/14/10.

My faithful walking shoes.

Ok so the Saturday Secrets idea was a big ol’ flop.  HAHAHA.  I just can’t think of anything good.

SO instead, I’m just going to do a week in review!

I started something this year.  Project 365.  A lot of my digital scrapbooking friends did it last year and it just felt impossible so I didn’t even try.  But this year I decided to just do it!

The goal of Project 365 is to take a photo a day the whole year.

Yep, you read that right.  A photo EVERY SINGLE DAY.

Now you might be thinking that that should be EASY for me with my psycho photo taking tendencies.

Not so much.

I tend to take 200 pictures  … in one setting.  I sometimes go a week or two without taking a picture.

But not anymore!!

I’ve done great – sure, most of my pictures have been taking at 11:00 at night because I forget about doing it until then – but at least I’m taking them!

So each Saturday, I will post the previous week’s photos for your viewing enjoyment.

Week #1 – January 1st through January 7th:

Day 1: Me & the monkeys just a few minutes after midnight on New Years day!

Day 2: Aaron & I had a Lord of the Rings marathon last week

Day 3: Ryan chillin’ outside

Day 4: Aaron got me a Netflix subscription for Christmas  This was our 2nd movie!

Day 5: I was working on a digital scrapbooking project FOR Project 356

Day 6:  I got to hang out with a bunch of babies!  So fun!

Day 7: T making kissy faces at me

Ok, children – gather around and let me tell you the story of the worst Christmas EVER.

Ok, maybe I’m being just a bit dramatic.  Maybe it wasn’t the worst Christmas EVER.  But it was definitely a Christmas that I don’t remember with fondness.

The morning started like any other Christmas morning.  I couldn’t sleep.  My stomach was full of excited butterflies.  My sister had slept in my bed with me the night before and we had made a bed for my brother on the floor so we were all in there together.  I looked over and saw that my sister was as wide awake as I was.  Just a few minutes later my brother was climbing up onto my bed as well.  We were positively GIDDY with excitement, bouncing up and down, giggling, whispering.   I know it was a complete accident, but out of nowhere my sister’s elbow came careening towards my face hitting me square in the nose.  OUCH!  I don’t think I cried but I tried to shake it off as we went to see if our parents were awake.

As always, we had to wait for my mom to brush her hair and put her contacts in and yadda yadda yadda.  Why do they take so long??

When they were finally ready to go, us kids stood at the top of the stairs waiting for the all clear from Dad who was watching us from downstairs with the video camera.  We RAN down the stairs and into the family room where piles of toys and stockings full of presents were waiting for us!!!

Or not.

I think we looked at each other in disbelief as we stared at the bare fireplace in front of us.  Not a single present in sight.

This had to be a joke.

Right?

With our excitement dimmed substantially, we walked over to our stockings and carefully reached our hands inside.

Wait!!  I think I can feel something….

And I slowly pulled out a bag … of coal.

Yes, coal.

My parents gave me COAL for Christmas.

As much as the logical side of me knew it HAD to be a joke, there was a part of me that was wondering if all those years of threats were finally coming true.  I was still pondering this when I noticed a little piece of paper with the bag of coal.

It was a clue.

I read the clue out loud and my sister, brother and I figured out the answer and ran to the spot the clue had led us to.  And what do you think we found??

Another clue.

And this went on for a while.

Until I was bending down to look for a clue when I stood up without realizing I was right next to the fireplace mantle.

I hit my head so hard the video camera shook.   I tried my best for about 30 seconds to hold it together but a pathetic sob escaped my lips and I made a dash for my mom.  We took a break from clue-hunting for a bit.

When my head trauma had subsided, we headed off to the next clue which led us to the piana bench.  We opened it up and what do you suppose we found in there???  Yep, you guessed it.  Three big ziplock bags with our names on them.  Our stocking presents.  REDEMPTION!

After we opened our stockings, we headed into the other room to open the gifts under the tree.

Not 10 minutes into it a box was flung open and the corner of the lid poked me in the eye.  I didn’t even try to hold it together that time.

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So that was the worst Christmas ever. I know, I know. It really wasn’t that bad.  And for that I’m grateful.  I have years and years of wonderful Christmas memories so if this is the worst there is, I’m very satisfied with that.

I know my parents meant well and just wanted to do something fun with us when they gave us all coal.  But it was so anti-climactic!  The excitement we felt at the top of the stairs fizzled as soon as we saw the limp stockings hanging there.  And once we found the gifts, it just didn’t look like those ziplocks held as much as our stockings did!  And you could SEE everything – with the gifts stuffed into the stocking, there’s always that element of surprise as you reach your hand in to see what treat you will pull out next!

But in spite of all that…

I’m wondering…

Should I do that to my kids this year??  I think it sounds fun…