Time Flies!

When you have two kids that is....
Today we celebrate the second birthday of Camden, I really cannot believe that he is two years old already. It seems like yesterday I was in the hospital holding him and meeting him for the first time. It has been quite the journey and he is such a ham. What a personality for such a small little person, but then again, look at his parents.
So, what is Camden into thes edays....

Favorite Food : Mac & Cheese.... "Mommy Matt Cheese"
Favorite Character : Mickey Mouse, although Handy Manny and Elmo are close seconds.
Favorite Things to do : See the Fire Trucks, Play with Ben, Go in the kitchen and play with the dogs, Spend time with Ole (Grandma) and Lala (Auntie)
Favorite Things to do that he isn't supposed to do : Climb on the TV speakers
Favorite Movies : Cars, The Santa Claus, Elmo Potty, Elmo in Grouchland, and Finding Nemo.
This year, he isn't scared of Santa Claus either!

A Sad Day For The Elwood Family

Yesterday, December 9th, 2009 the Elwood family laid Grandma Dorthy to rest. Better known as Snorky to many, she was the matriarch of the Elwood Family and she will be amazingly missed. My husband and her were incredibly close, but she is in a much better place now.

Here Comes Santa Claus!

I must say, The Elwood Family is starting to get into the Christmas Spirit. Last Sunday we went to the Trumbull Christmas Tree Lighting and saw Santa, who Camden is NOT afraid of this year. Last year he thought Santa was some kind of ax murderer that was going to kill him and he would never see us again. This year, he is totally obsessed with him.

We took a couple pictures of Camden and Ben when we went to the tree lighting. They were adorable in their Christmas apparel.
Before we left the house, I attempted to take some kind of a Christmas card picture, and I come to the conclusion it is next to impossible to do this with two children under the age of two. Camden wanted nothing to do with it unless he was literally sitting ON Ben which was not going to happen.
Camden and Will were pretty comfy while we were waiting for Santa. Thankfully it wasn't very cold or else we would not have waited as long as we did for the Big guy!

This was one of the fire trucks that brought Santa Claus in. There were two of them, and they were completely beautiful!

Thanksgiving

We had a great Thanksgiving this week. We were able to celebrate with my parents, Will's father, My aunt Cindy, Cousin Courtney, Uncle Steve, and later on in the evening a good friend of the family Al, and his friends stopped by. I feel like holidays are my social hours. Others help watch the children, and it is almost like a mini break for me, and I loved it! It makes me excited for Christmas.
Camden got one of his birthday presents before all the company showed up from my Parents, we figured it would also give him something to do while we were there at my parents even though he has a whole collection of toys there too.Camden got his first Motorcycle. LOL! My parents found it online, it is a red Indian. My father also rides an Indian, so to put him on one of those mini Harley's that you can find at Toy's R Us would have probably put my father over his Holiday edge. LOL We ended up dressing him up, this picture is missing mom's leather bike vest though, we were surprised he even kept the do rag and glasses on.
Ben also enjoyed watching a portion of a movie with Grandpa. Aren't they so cute together? You can also see one of the places that Ben get's his big blue eyes from.
Grandma let Camden re-arrange the place settings before anyone got to the house too. There are tons more pictures, but I am still getting used to our new Camera and sometimes the pictures turn out crazy blurry. I am not sure why, but I am still working the kinks out!
Happy Thanksgiving!

What a Week!

Well, all in all, I guess it turned out better than I thought it would. Our new second car passed all the tests that an out of state vehicle needed to and now we are fully registered and ready to rock and roll. That is one huge relief on my part at least.
Everyone is over "the flu" but now we have this lingering cough from hell, we all sound like 90 year old women who have been smoking for 65 years. Not cute to say the least.

We are working up to Thanksgiving on Thursday and then shortly after that is Camden's birthday party. I feel so unprepared for that as I have continued to push the invites to the side, over and over again. I am getting to the point where I am just going to e-mail out an invite and whoever comes, comes....

I am slowly giving up on internet forum's. I never realized how ignorant, one sided, and flat out mean some women can be, and these are not just your run of the mill internet idiots, some are college educated career women. It really is sad when they try and compare apples to oranges and not even try to come out of their box to realize there is another world outside of their own narrow one sided opinion.
The more I read, the more anti-main stream I become.

I am really looking forward to Christmas. I want to put our Christmas Tree up but Will said I have to wait until Friday to put it up. OH! Camden saw Santa in the mall last night, it was hysterical to watch the look on his face. It was almost like.... "Uh.... that guy belongs on TV....."

Flu Everywhere!

Well my husband has come down with the flu. Just as we thought he was getting better, he went to work, and returned home yesterday with a high fever, which he had not had a fever since Friday night. So I am forcing him to go to the Doctor today which he hates.

I did some work on my etsy stuff yesterday, and took some better pictures in hopes of people looking at my listings more. It seems as though all the people on etsy have these professional looking pictures for their listings.

Etsy

I have recently decided I am crafty and started making things and selling them on etsy. The problem is, they aren't selling. LOL
I am trying to figure out at this point what I am doing wrong and go from there, but everyone keeps telling me it is all about networking and patience, which everyone who knows me, knows that I do not have patience at all, and at the same time, my husband is becoming increasingly frustrated at the amount of money going into it, while none is coming out. But all husbands would be.

So I am going to just keep working on it, posting about my shop, and really just try and make more stuff, maybe more than people would want.
So I figured I would post a couple things I have made...