The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog. Some interesting stats here! Thank you to my commenters during the year! You guys ROCK!
Here’s an excerpt:
The concert hall at the Sydney Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 8,500 times in 2011. If it were a concert at Sydney Opera House, it would take about 3 sold-out performances for that many people to see it.
My canvases!
I hung them up over the couch in the living room.
So, my living room is coming along nicely!
Just a few minor things left! 
Man, this baby-making stuff is tiring! I slept from 1 AM – 9:30 AM this morning. Got up, my awesome hubby made us breakfast, ate breakfast then curled up on the couch to watch the Rose Bowl parade… and I slept for 2 more hours! Good grief!
My favorite part of today was watching my boys. They created this game with Punky’s baseball cards. Punky sorted the cards by league…National and American. He then created a team for each league. He and hubby placed the cards on the table in position. Then, Punky rolled a dice. Punky created these rules:
When there were 3 outs, they changed sides, rearranged the field, and did it all again. Punky kept score on a piece of paper. It was so dang cute!
Here are a few pics of my guys.
Setting up the field (I'm along the 3rd baseline)Batter Up!
Punky keeping score
A Homerun! Punky marks it down!
The Final Score
It was so neat to watch them play this!
Just because I feel like I can do more in a day, I have 2 new adventures starting up. You can see their little buttons on the left side of this post about 1/2 way down the sidebar. See them?
One is for project 365. I started up a blog to document a photo a day. Click on the 365 widget here to peek at it. (You can always use the sidebar buttons too, since this post won’t always be on top here!)
The second project is called “Digging Out.” My sister-in-law, Jeanne, called me and asked if I’d be interested in working with her on a calendar we both had pinned on Pinterest. The calendar is on de-cluttering in 2012. We created “Digging Out” to hold us accountable and to document our journey! You can click on the widget here too. (You can always use the sidebar for this one too!)
What do you think?
I think it sounds like fun! I just have to keep up with it! ;) No biggie, right?
Things I accomplished in 2011:
As I look forward to 2012, I can’t wait to meet our newest member of our family…but that won’t be until August! I am excited to keep watching Punky bloom into a young man! He’s growing up so fast! He’ll be a big first grader this year! I am looking forward to spending lots of time with my family and friends…
As I am taking down all of our Christmas decorations, I came across what was one of my favorite gifts to ever get from my mom and dad for Christmas. All three of us Murawski kids actually got one. You see, my mom and dad’s house becomes an enchanted magical Christmas wonderland every year at Christmas. They’ve scaled back on the decorations as we have gotten older and grandkids have entered the picture, but honestly, it’s still as beautiful as ever each year.
Anyway, mom always made these cute little vignettes around the house and would sprinkle “snow” on everything to make it even more special. So, for Christmas one year, we got a “box of snow.” No, really. We got a box with some of the “snow” mom used to decorate our house with each year.
So, every year, I used just a bit of the snow around my Gurley candles…
And every year, it goes back in its special box.
I love it!
Our crazy December… no other way to describe it!
December 3rd – Take most of my maternity clothes, and a good chunk of baby clothes to Goodwill to clear out the garage, as I keep promising Hubby we’ll be parking in there soon!
December 6th – While talking at lunch, my friends are naming teachers in our building who are pregnant. I get to thinking, when was my last period? Hmmmmm. I proceed to ask anyone and everyone that very same question in hopes that something will trigger my mind. I go home, and that nagging question lingers, so after dinner, I go to Walgreen’s to buy a test, and then I quickly stop at the liquor store as we are all out of wine. I come home and run up the stairs to the bathroom, shut the door, and hold my breath. There is no way. And then… there it was!
I called Keith upstairs, and Punky followed. As I handed Keith the test, Punky said, “Mama, are you ok? You got a fever?” (I love that line! You’re right buddy—–it totally looks like a thermometer!)
December 7th – Well, since I asked EVERYONE the day before about my period, it was pretty hard to NOT say anything at work. I walked in and got a lot of “Well?????” questions. :) Head to the clinic for blood draws to check hormone levels to try to guess how far along I am!
December 13th – Keith and I head to the clinic for our first ultrasound. I still have NO clue on dates. I used to make fun of people like this! The ultrasound lady was not my favorite… didn’t tell us much…just that there was a “healthy sac.” How many of you can say that? LOL! Baby is too small to see! 5 weeks pregnant…
More blood draws and pokes.
December 15th – We tell Punky he is going to be a big brother. :) He is super excited! I really wanted to see a heartbeat before we told him, but we are hosting Schad Christmas on Saturday! So, the news will be out!
December 17th – We host Schad Christmas. Punky proudly wears his “Big Brother Jack” shirt to tell everyone. Lots of hugs!
December 20th – Keith and Punky are off to Punky’s very first field trip…and Mama has a second ultrasound. Super scared as I soooooo needed to see a heartbeat so that I knew we weren’t repeating March 2008. This ultrasound technician was AWESOME. She showed me everything, took measurements, and gave me pictures of ”that piece of rice!” Heartbeat was 123 beats/minute. Perfect! 6 weeks along…
December 20 (PM)… Get the “goose” which will announce to my family about their next grandchild. Tag it and wrap it…and it’s ready to go!
December 21,22… The secret is killing me….I still haven’t told my MOM and DAD! Punky avoids most phone calls with them as he wants to see their faces too when we tell them!
December 23 – We arrive in Chicago, and Mom and Dad open up their 4th goose…
(Click on the link to see it on YouTube!)
December 24th – Punky announces it to the Hill family (and FACEBOOK) on Christmas Eve… He couldn’t be any prouder!
In fact, the boy is still smiling…
and still smiling…..days later….
Mama and Dada are still smiling too, Buddy!
Punky loves him some buffalo wings. Every payday Friday, we go to “Choir Practice” (read “HAPPY HOUR” code for teachers). When we were in Chicago over Thanksgiving, he thought he’d order some wings while we were watching Grandma Holly and Grandpa Ed bowl on Saturday night.
So, here he is, sans milk, enjoying his wings. (He goes through about 6 glasses of milk each time he orders them at “Choir Practice.”)
Digging in...
Breaking for liquids....
Look at that face!
I just love watching him devour these each week!
Everytime I attended a Schad Christmas at my in-laws house, my mother-in-law always served punch. Since she has passed away, and I have hosted, I always feel badly that we don’t have punch, so this year, I wanted to make punch.
A quick search on all-recipes came up with this delicious recipe:
I was excited to finally have punch…and it was quite tasty too! ****Plus there were no citrus juices so Hubby could drink it, too!
Elfy has been up to no good. Here is where we left off….
Elfy brought a “friend” from santa to go to Kelly’s daycare. the kids there named their elf “Red.” Cute!
Then, Elfy brought another mini-North Pole breakfast (notice the already bit donuts….bad Elfy!)
Next, Elfy sat in the window waiting for Punky to return from school.
the next morning, ELfy turned the milk RED. Sneaky, ELf! (my pic is on Facebook)
Tonight, Elfy got into a dry erase marker…..and hit the frames I just put up!!!! Punky is going to laugh so hard in the morning!
Sneaky, ELfy! You are hilarious!!!!
Melissa
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