vacation is over. sniff sniff.

we've been having so much fun, i don't want winter break to be over.
but it is and it's now a whole new year. man i love a fresh start. i am trying to work on exercising more and drinking more water. i've already done my workout today and have drunk about 30 ounces (for me that is huge since i'm not a big water drinker)!
here's a little glimpse of what we did the second week of our vacation...

chris has been off this whole time and it's been so nice.
we've been really focusing on reading the bible everyday as a family.
here are chris & mck in front of the fire after we read some in psalms (mck's choice!)

cosmo always knows when we're packing to go somewhere. last week when we went to waco, i found him numerous times in my duffel bag!

when we got to the thursday night meeting mckinlee and abby were so cute in their black & pink i had to take a picture!

on wednesday, maria had some of us over for a craft day to knit and crochet. i've only knitted a tiny bit and never crocheted. we were supposed to leave with a dishcloth and a cute flower attached to it. i got through half the flower & then maria finished the rest (i think i was slowing everyone else down!) and i got maybe one fourth of my dishcloth done!
here we all are.
(monica, the dark headed girl in the pink shirt is an AMAZING crocheter--wish i had taken a picture of the things she's done!)

maria's daughter, bianca, was attached to me today. she kept following me around and bringing me her doll to put to sleep and asked for her mom to take a picture of us! so cute.

here i am trying to tune everyone out and finish a row by myself!

mck working away

this took me hours to do. sad, isn't it? i do love the colors but it's turning into a triangle.
i keep telling myself it's only my first one.

saturday was a kid's party given by the sweetest, funniest sister in our congregation.
they played games...

more games...

bible pictionary...

and ate lots of yummies!

all of us moms had a fun time too!
me & brenda

margarita & patricia

mindy, abby, april & valarie

christina (she's the one that had the party & she doesn't even have any kids!), margarita & me

this little project kept mckinlee busy for hours.
she made tabs from my tab punch from all my scraps and wrote down all the books of the bible.

then she attached them all to her big bible to help her find the books faster.
it turned out so cute.

in other news, my project life for 2009 is almost complete (except for a few pictures i'm waiting on) i always do the previous year so that's why i'm still on 2009.

this is the binder for 2009. i ordered this last year from becky higgins blog.

here's the completed first page.

here i am with my new kit that came this past week. yay!

and here are the pretty insides!
(it's not too late to start your own project life. this year there are 2 designs and they're both awesome! go here for more information.)

friday night we took mckinlee to see tron: legacy
here she is with dad before we went in.

here chris and i are in our 3d's.
(chris & mck loved the movie. it was just ok to me. i'm not really into all that video game stuff. we were going to see tangled, but i kind of felt bad that chris would have to sit through a princess-y cartoon, so i suggested tron. then i had to sit through all that! i told chris he owes me a good romantic comedy after tron!)

so now we're back to school, work and our daily lives.
i will have to post some of my organization endeavors soon!