End Of The Year Happenings

Wow, I can't believe it's almost Thursday! That means three things this week... it's almost December 31st, the end of the year, and my little guys birthday! How is it that it's here already? Five years ago on this night I was in a hospital bed being induced waiting to give birth to my first child. I remember it like it was yesterday. It's been a crazy busy week as I expected and not slowing down anytime soon. Here's a little recap of the past couple days and what lies ahead. Monday brought about car shopping for Greg. His lease is up on his car in February and that means time to find something new. Not necessarily new, possibly used, but a different car nonetheless. He wasn't too successful in his quest for a new ride. Car shopping takes so much time and is such a pain. Ever since Monday he's been to three car dealers, and has been looking at cars online pretty much non-stop! The problem is he doesn't really know what he wants for one, and for two anything he kind of is interested in is more than we want to pay. We've got a little time and hopefully things will fall into place after the new year and we'll figure out what we're going to get.

The past couple days has also brought about still trying to unpack and organize new toys, as well as trying new clothes on the kids and seeing what needs to be exchanged/returned. We've done a few exchanges, but of course not everything is from the same store so that means multiple places to go. Hopefully over the next couple days we can finish the exchanges up and get that out of the way. However Saturday is birthday party day and MSU bowl game at night, so that means that day is gonna be shot. Speaking of birthday party, Evan has decided on a pirate party this year. I've been trying to plan a few things for that and get this house in shape before Saturday in between everything else.

Tonight brought about the first birthday celebration for Evan. We celebrated his birthday with Greg's mom tonight by going to dinner at Ukai (the Japanese steakhouse we all love). It was so good. Evan got to pick where he wanted to go to dinner and Ukai it was. The boy has some good taste for a five year old! He picked it all by himself. We all enjoyed dinner however Em wasn't too into the fire at the table this time. She had to hide her face in my arm. Then when the fire was done she was fine and she'd say, "All done, just steaming." It was too cute!

So that's our last couple days in a nutshell. Tomorrow is New Year's Eve and a very special birthday. I'm not sure what our plans are, but I do know that Evan's going to get to pick most of what we do!