December in a nutshell

I always tell myself that things are beginning to slow down and then I look back and have to giggle a little. It has been a crazy month and we didn't even travel for the holidays. Work has been super, super busy (everyone is trying to get surgeries done since they have met their deductibles), kids have had performances, meets, parties, Brian has been out of town for most of the month, then you add in Christmas and all the stuff that goes with that holiday... needless to say, it has been yet another crazy month in our home.

Calli had her state meet for gymnastics and did AWESOME!!! She got 5th place in her age group at level 3 and out of all the level 3s that competed (about 30) she got 9th place!!! She got the best scores of her entire gymnastics career. Vault- 8.7, Bars- 8.5, Beam- 7.95, Floor-8.75!!! She was so beautiful and I couldn't have been more proud!!! We even had some awesome friends come to the event to cheer her on and share in the excitement! I have the most awesome friends ever!

I also had my work Christmas party which was just the coolest. We went to dinner at Ruby Tuesday in Park City. As soon as everyone was there, our office manager handed out envelopes to all the employees and docs wives. There was $200 in it!!! She said that there were only 2 rules to have this money...1. We had to spend it on ourselves and 2. We only had 45 minutes! We all jumped in our cars and took off like bats out of hell!!! I went to Fossil and bought a purse and wallet! I am in LOVE with this awesome orange purse! I had a little left over so I bought season 1 of GLEE too. We came back and ate and got another envelope with our bonuses in it!!! Holy cow... I have the best bosses!!!

Christmas was good too. We had a family get together and had a special visitor. All the kids were so excited to see Santa except Cienna. She would not go sit on his lap and when he tried to talk to her she started crying! What the heck? My kids have never been scared of Santa. Brandy and I decided that it was probably because he was asking all the kids if they had been good all year. Hahaha... she didn't want to lie. :) We spent Christmas at home all day. It was so nice to let the kids play with their toys and just hang out and not have to be at 20 different places. We missed our family in California a ton, but are planning a trip in February!

So tomorrow is New Years Eve and we have a fun adults party we are going to. We have been planning a murder mystery dinner forever and tomorrow it comes!!! I know I am a total dork, but the last one we did was a BLAST. This one is a 1920's gangster/mafia theme and my friends and I went to the DI and found costumes. I am a newspaper reporter and Brian is a baseball player... go figure! I will let you all know how it turns out and I will post pics later.

I hope everyone has started thinking about goals for the new year... I know I have. There are a lot of things that were left undone this year and I want to make sure it doesn't happen next year. Happy last 2 days of 2010 people!!!