New Years Day

Here are the big boys at 11:30 a.m. on New Years Day after their all-nighter!

Making Progress

Miles laughed at his Jack-in-the-Box today!

Groceries, Again

First, let me start off by saying that my favorite grocery store where I get nearly all my killer deals has been sold and will no longer be Albertsons at the end of the month. I'm sad! Where will I get all the awesome scores when Albertsons becomes Ridleys? Needless to say, I'm preparing for the change and stocking up while I can. For example, last week I bought 4 boxes of shredded wheat (bite size and lightly frosted!) and paid $2.12 out of pocket and got back a $3 "like cash" coupon. I did that deal 4 times and ended up with 16 boxes of cereal that I paid $8.48 for and got back $12 in "like cash" coupons. Yesterday I bought 20 single serving size containers of Yoplait and paid .78 total! Today I bought 2 14oz. boxes of Cheerios, 3 4-pack Yoplait yogurts, and 12 cans of Progresso soup and paid $2.85 and got back a $5 "like cash" coupon. I'm taking advantage of the steals while I can because before long, Albertsons will be gone...

Learning English

Miles is very verbal. His vocabulary is experiencing exponential growth right now. His favorite words right now (well, at least for yesterday) are "no-maah" (snowman) and "Gan-nor" ('Gantor, which is what Jonathan is referred to). My favorite Miles word is "up". No, it doesn't mean "up" in the dictionary definition, nor does it mean "pick me up". When Miles says "up", he is saying "balloon"! Yesterday we looked at "up" in the grocery store several times!

My Boys are NUTS!

Jonathan went to a New Years Eve dance and Nolan hung out at home. He watched Transformers and feasted on a TV dinner, Swedish Fish, Oreos, and Dr. Pepper. I picked Jonathan up from his dance sometime shortly after midnight. Then I went to bed. For the boys though, the night was young and the party was just beginning. They set a goal to stay up all night. Yuck. I woke up several times in the night and didn't hear a sound. I assumed that they had gone to bed. Wrong! Around 11:30 a.m. on January 1, I went downstairs to take a picture of the party boys. They were crashed out in the family room. I took my pictures, but the flash woke them up. That was when I found out that Jonathan went to bed at 5:30 a.m. and Nolan was up until 6:15 a.m. Nolan was especially proud of his accomplishment. Ah, to be young again and think that sleepless nights are a desirable thing!

Santa vs. Baby New Year

Santa came. Baby New Year dropped by as well. So, who brought the better gift? It's important to remember that Santa brings several gifts while BNY only brings ONE. Well, based on my observations, BNY won this round. Nolan got Guitar Hero and Jonathan got a new MP3 player from BNY. Guitar Hero has been played more than any other Wii game, and Jonathan has been plugged into his MP3 player since he got it (excepting sleep, school, and church). Santa did better for Miles though. His favorite gift is a wood pull-along Thomas the Tank Engine brought by the jolly one. So even though the odds were against him, BNY did better than Santa for 2/3 of my boys this year.

Happy New Year!!!