Holiday 2010 Professional Pictures

Most of you have already seen these on our Christmas card from this year, but I thought I would post on here as well! I should be able to have more for a slideshow soon!

Santa comes to Norwood!

Alex with his new guitar from Aunt Krista and Uncle Michael!


Evan was excited about Alex's new present as well!


Santa brought Evan a Cars bowling set!


Alex couldn't believe Santa was at his house!


Evan showing Santa his sucker!

Christmas Eve - we went to the 4pm mass at St. Cecilia's. Then we headed home for the Bajorek Family Polish traditions. This year Paul and Carol came down here to celebrate in Cincinnati. We also had Michael, Krista and Michael's parents, Norman and Sharon. We cooked pistachio crusted flounder, roasted root vegetables and of course, Periogies (homemade by Carol & Paul). Then the kids were surprised by a visit from Santa! He came carrying presents for everyone! It was a great time!

Christmas Eve Mass

The boys were all dressed up ready for church!

Christmas in Somerset

We all headed down to Somerset to celebrate Christmas a week early. We picked Tim up at the airport (thankfully he made it back from London - all the delays started after he got out) and we drove straight to Somerset. We didn't get there until around 8:30pm, so we picked up dinner at Sonny's and headed over to Granny and Poppy's for a quick visit. We were exhausted when we finally made it to mom's a little after 10pm.

The next morning we went to Granny and Poppy's for breakfast - she had made our favorite Uncle Charlie's tenderloin - yum! This started the food coma that would last all weekend. We opened presents and headed home to get the kids down for their long overdue naps. They slept until dinner time! Mom had cooked some lasagna and Krista and I made a salad - again, great food... The boys really enjoyed getting and opening presents this year - I think this is evident by the large smiles on their faces!

It was a quick trip - but we had a great time!

While Dad is away...

...mommy has had a rough week. Poor little Alex came down with a fever on Saturday and literally getting off our exit, after we dropped Tim off at the airport, he barfs all over the car. He was so sensitive about it and worried about getting the car dirty. So, in the rain, I get the kids back in the house, go back out to the car with cleaning supplies and wipe everything down, then I have to uninstall the carseat and take it apart to get the barf out of the nooks and crannies of the carseat and take it all inside to wash, all the while the kids are inside by themselves - not safe. Alex was naked at this point, still feeling sick, hovering over a towel in case he throws up more, screaming at Evan to go away. Brutus was trying to lick the barf off his clothes. That was Saturday night. Fun times - I hate barf!!!

Sunday - he woke up feeling better, just a slight fever, but boy did it start snowing... So we just played around the house, nothing big.

Monday - was a slow start due to the snow and Alex still wasn't feeling well, so I worked from home and kept Alex with me. BTW - I think he totally faked it, but whatever, I love to spend time with them any time I can...

That brings us to Tuesday and the attached video, the absolute highlight of my week. Poor little Evan went to bed with a fever and was up around 11pm, crying and just whiny. I didn't know what was wrong, but he was saying his stomach was hurting, so I just thought, here we go again. I sat in his room until 1am - he was waking about every 15 minutes and asking if I was still there. As much as I didn't want him to puke in my bed, I gave in and said let's go to mommy's bed. Well, Alex was already in there since he won't sleep in his bed anymore (this can be a whole other post). Since I was afraid Evan was going to throw up everywhere, I tried to move Alex to his room. Well, he woke up and was livid. He demanded that I take him back to my room so he could sleep with me. So, I decided to put Alex at the end of the bed and put Evan next to me, on towels, mind you, in case he throws up. Evan was already just disoreinted and crying, but then Alex started screaming at me too and was really angry that Evan was in his spot. He was throwing his blanket at Evan and just started have a full on fit. Wait - where and how am I supposed to sleep??? So, needless to say, it was a rough night. I eventually put in a movie at 1am to calm them down. Evan watched the entire movie and then fell asleep - finally.

I am posting this video for the following reasons:

1.) The boys can see how they acted and feel bad for the way they treated their poor mom,
2.) I can use it as evidence/blackmail when they get girlfriends,
3.) I can use it against Tim next time I need leverage because I am not sure they have ever acted this way when I am out of town.

The video is hard to see, but make sure you have your sound up and my playlist paused so you can get the full effect.

The little angels slept peacfully Wednesday night -well, Evan woke up once, but I will take that over Tuesday night anytime!

That brings us to today and another 3 - 5 inches of snow. It has been totally annoying this week with all of the snow and clearing the car. I have already told Tim that the garage is next on our lists of updates to our money pit because I am over the snow already. I have to leave the boys inside alone, while I go out to clear the snow off the cars - which is not safe at all. Today I came back in and they had taken the ornaments off the tree and totally wrecked the house by throwing the shoes in the shoe basket all over the first floor, so that took another 15 minutes to pick up. Needless to say, I sure will be glad to see Tim tomorrow...