2013..Ready, Set, Go!

Goodness, this year has started off busy and on the go.  Hence the lack luster activity on my blog.  I feel like for a lot of people they get through the holiday buzz and things slow done.  But not for me.  January started and we have been busy as ever at work, preparing for some upcoming things.  So my days there have been full of energy, and it has definitely kept me on my toes.  But my children are as fun as ever and keep me going, laughing, and smiling day in and day out.  I want to try and bring back my weekly blog post about the things my kids say to me at work, because it is definitely some great material.  I just have to remember to stop and make mental notes of it all!  Here are a few that stnd out from this week...

• As I am kneeling on the floor talking to a child, another child comes over and climbs on my back like I am a horse and exclaims "You're a playground!"
• One day this week I was sitting with a few girls who were including me in their imaginative play.  When I asked what we were doing they informed me "We are having lunch at The Panda Express at the North Pole."  Several minutes later...."Also, it's your birthday and we brought along some gifts for you....two pet zebras!!!!" (If only such extravagant adventures occured each day!)

Aside from work, January is filled with birthdays!  Both my parents, along with a few other friends.  My mom's birthday was last weekend.  So we went out for drinks at this Irish pub thats nearby.  It's a fun place, yet very relaxed and casual.  They have a DJ who comes and sets up (totally wedding DJ style) and you can have some drinks and get up and dance on the mini "dance floor" space.  We had a lot of fun, and it was a good night.

My "hair mustache" ha

 

While we were out, my mom had mentioned a photo she had found of her when she was younger.  She had posted it on facebook and one of my cousins commented on how much it looked like me.  Now I have never really thought my mother and I looked much a like (and many times other people have said the same), but we did a side by side comparison and I must say I can see some resemblance.

 

 





I hope everyone else's year has been off to a good/productive start.  Crazy the month is almost over already!

Bronco's loss is hard to take!

So anyone who knows me knows just how much of a diehard Broncos fan I am...so without going into detail I was obviously devastated with the game Saturday.  On my way to work yesterday morning, the morning show I listen to on my commute was talking about it.  Listen to the clip below...I am on at about 4:20. haha

Bj & Jamie - Bronco's loss is hard to take! (1/14)

Holiday Break 2012

Goodness, I have been meaning to blog about my holidays for days.  But everytime I thought about it, just wasn't enough time to sit down and do it.  So finally here I am.  I was off of work for about a week and a half.  The break started with us going to the Broncos vs. Browns game on the 23rd.  Thanks to some friends who have season tickets and were out of town, so they sold me the tickets.  I was absolutely thrilled.  Though I have been lucky enough to go to a few Broncos games, for free, and in the suite next to the owner's suite...this was actually my first time going to a regular season game!  Our seats were great, for December the weather was nice (minus the last 30 minutes or so when the sun went down and it got pretty darn cold), and of course my team played amazingly.

All ready to go!

 

View from our seats.

 

 

On Christmas Eve, I went to Christmas service.  It has always been a Christmas tradition of our family for as long as I can remember.  When I was a kid we would go to service on Christmas Eve, then go home and open one gift before bed.  Then the next morning we would wake up and open the remainder of gifts.  My brother was always awake first, and often was the one jumping on my bed shouing "It's Christmas, wake up!"  After church went home and spent the evening with my mom, stepdad, Chris's brother and his girlfriend.  We played Apples to Apples, which is one of my favorite games.  Then began opening some of our gifts.

 

Christmas day we woke up, finished opening gifts, had breakfast, then played a game of Cranium before his brother and his brother's girlfriend left.  That evening we headed to my aunt's to spend the evening with my dad's side of the family.  It was great to see everyone and catch up.  It was definitely a nice Christmas.  And I got some nice gifts which included awesome Coach sunglasses, a fancy Dyson bladeless fan, some cutes clothes, Bronco's gifts, an at home UV gel polish kit, and plenty of giftcards.  So I even got to enjoy some after Chirtmas shopping, where I got lots of cute clothes and a pair of boots I had been wanting.

 

 

 

 

For New Years Eve we went to dinner at a steakhouse called Mackenzie's Chophouse with our friends Megan and Jay.  After dinner we headed up to Cripple Creek.  The boys gambled, Megan and I drank champagne while goofing off at slot machines.

New Years Eve dinner

 

With Megan 

 

 I hope everyone else enjoyed their holidays and are ready to start of the new year!  It's the year of the snake (which I am) so I am hoping it brings nothing but great things my way!