2011 Reflections

A little late but what the heck...

As 2011 comes to a close there are so many things that I'm grateful for this past year. 

Most importantly, 2011 was my first full year as a mother and as a wife. 

Let's recap, shall we?

~January 2011~

Olivia was baptized

Last month of maternity leave

~February 2011~

Hubby celebrated his 28th birthday

Went back to work full time

~March 2011~

~April 2011~

Olivia's 1st Easter

Easter dinner with The Degnan's

~May 2011~

Celebrated my 1st Mother's Day

Olivia's 1st trip to the zoo

~June 2011~

Celebrated Marissa graduating from highschool

Hubby celebrated his 1st Father's Day

Olivia's went to her 1st baseball game

~July 2011~

Olivia's 1st 4th of July

Olivia gets her 1st tooth

~August 2011~

I celebrated turning 28

1st family vacation to Old Orchard Beach Maine

~September 2011~

Trip to the New England Aquarium in Boston

~October 2011~

Celebrated Olivia's 1st Birthday!!

Olivia went Trick or Treating for the 1st time

~November 2011~

Olivia's 2nd Thanksgiving

Olivia starts walking!

~December 2011~

Celebrated Olivia's 2nd Christmas

Olivia starts RUNNING!

Started blogging regularly

So, as you can see, I didnt keep track of everything as nicely as

I'd have liked to last year which is why I'm grateful for blogging now because

one of my goals for 2012 is to document our lives a bit better!

I have so many future posts in mind but I've been feeling under the weather

and havent uploaded any pictures to my home computer so they are on hold for now.

~Laura

Crazy Shenanigans!

Seriously, this week has been full of me feeling like any minute

I'm going to turn around and be "on Candid Camera!"

Yesterday when I got home from work, I let the dogs out and when I let them back in my little one stunk. 

I wasn't sure what had happened and then I saw it... she rolled in sh*t!!

Mind you, she had a bath this past weekend, I guess she wasn't a fan of being clean.

Since she now had smeared herself with crap, off to the bath we went.  Don't worry, she's clean again.

...and she's really lucky she's cute.

Monday morning, after a particularly restless sleep,

I woke up, took a shower and as I was putting make-up on, I noticed it. 

A GRAY EYEBROW HAIR!  Really? 

What a horrible way to start the week!  I'm only 28 for goodness sake.  I don't even know how to fix this. 

I dye my hair every so often, guess my eyebrows will be taking a bath in the brown dye too! 

Online Christmas shopping has really been a savior for me this year. 

I don't have time or the energy to battle the crowds at the store after working all day

so this weekend I was looking online for a specific hat for my father. 

Well, in my haste, I just left the internet page up, walked away and forgot about it. 

My Dad went to use the computer and what's the first thing that pops up - a motorcycle hat website...

FAIL. 

Great way to ruin the surprise. 

Our conversation goes like this:

Dad - "Laura, if you're looking for a gift for someone,

you should make sure you close the page when you're done." 

Me - "Do you like the hat?" 

Dad - "Yes, it's nice."

Me - "OK, good!"

I kind of feel like I'm living out the bloopers right now!

Merry Christmas.

~Laura