I'm having one of my "I can't sleep" moments so I decided to get up and get a few things done that kept rolling around in my head while I was trying to go to sleep!  Over the years of struggling occasionally with insomnia I've learned that sometimes it's better to just get up and get whatever I'm thinking about done (and sometimes it's better to just lay there and "rest" - depending on what the next day holds.)  I keep forgetting to run to the post office to mail a few things so I'm getting it all ready and laid out so that there are no excuses in the morning:)

We have a busy but fun week ahead of us.  The twins are done with school tomorrow and than have the rest of the week off for Thanksgiving.  We are planning on spending Thursday with Ryan's family and Sat/Sun with my family.  I really love this time of year!! 

Kaitlyn started cheerleading this evening.  We signed her up over a month ago, ordered the uniform and then waited for the e-mail to come telling us when her practices started.  And waited.  And waited!  I finally called the rec center last Friday to find out when she starts only to find out that we had already missed two practices:(  She seemed to slip right into it tonight, though and knew one of the girls so she'll be fine.  It's just my mother-heart that feels bad for letting so much time pass before checking into it!

Anyway, better get that "to-do" list started...this post wasn't on it:)  :)

Christmas Spirit a Little Early!

Sooo - I caved this morning and decided to decorate for Christmas a little early this year!  We aren't hosting Thanksgiving so why not, right??  I was digging into cleaning the house since our recent bout with the flu and thought that as long as I was deep cleaning everything I may as well get the decorations up:)

My biggest challenge this year will be keeping my little one year old buddy away from the tree...hmmmm!

Complete Rainbow

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We saw the most amazing, complete rainbow this morning!  (The brief sunrise was gorgeous, too)A camera will never do it justice but I just had to try!  Thankfully the twins were up early (no idea why since there is no school today!) so we all went out and rainbow-gazed for awhile.  Some of you may remember the blog post from Singapore when Kaitlyn and I saw the only other complete rainbow I've seen in my adult life.  We were running around in the rain in a field trying to capture it while the Singaporeans were thinking we were crazy!  

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A Slow Week For Once!!

Yay!  I have a slower week for the first time in a long time...maybe now the piles and piles of laundry will finally get caught up:)  It's been busy around here with school, piano, activities, babysitting Tayden, preschool, getting spring bulbs planted and fall clean up done...and we FINALLY finished cleaning/organizing the basement (you may remember a post from a LONG time ago that I was working on this project!)  I also got our bedroom painted, the guest room painted, and the loft.  I still have a little touch up work to do so I'm hoping that I'll finally have time for that this week!


The twins have school Monday and Tuesday this week and then are off for the rest of the week due to teacher conferences.  They are worried that they will have to do a lot of work for those 5 days off but I've promised them some free time:)