2011 in review...

So 2011 Turned out to be a pretty great year, we hit so many milestones and had a ton of adventures!  Really looking forward to 2012 to see what new adventures it brings!

In 2011 we...

Finally moved into our new home!  Complete with the occasional cow across the street :) 

We got to celebrate C's first birthday in said new home!

C had her first trip to Emergent Care and had a wonderful bruised/swollen/infected face for Easter

The Monday after Easter A made her entrance into the world!  She was such a good girl to wait till Mommy's doctor was back on rotation :) 

We cut a hole in the house and finished up Grandma's apartment!

We got to go Geocaching!  Once.

M and I celebrated 10 years of being together and 4 years being Married :)

We hit up Alive @ 5 for Allie's first Haggis show 

We road tripped down to Tennessee to see the TN V's and stopped in NC to see Aunt Mary, Can't wait to go back!!

It was A"s first time in the ocean, I think she loved it!

C went to her first live show in a theater, Yo Gabba Gabba at the Palace, she had a blast.

We had SNOW in OCTOBER!

C started Soccer Tots

A had her first trip to Lake Placid, though it was A bit colder than when C had her first trip, think we will go again in the summer :) 

And even though we had a positively green and brown Christmas, I think it was still a pretty great one, especially since it was A's First!

Oh and somewhere in the middle of all that we had this little Hurricane, no pics really of that though :) we survived, and even though we were way over prepared (I think) thankfully we were truly lucky damage wise, we didn't even lose power thankfully.  Just a couple of poison sumac trees and good riddance to those.

Like I said before, can't wait to see what Adventures 2012 brings our way! 

W.O.W. Wife

Sorry it's been so long since the last post, truthfully we weren't doing much gaming. We were reading ~ well, listening too ~ The Hunger Games, but I'll save that for another post.

Anyway...

So last night we picked up where we left off in W.O.W. , I figure it's much more fun to be a W.O.W. wife than a W.O.W. widow :) even if I just tag along on all the quests.

But that all that tagging along stuff changed last night...M made me take the lead on one of our quests. I don't think it was an Epic fail, but one thing I need to work on is my map reading abilities (I mean if Dora The Explorer can teach my 2 year old how to do it I should be able to do it by now right?), oh and my awareness of my surroundings needs to be worked on too. But I got us there and completed the quest with minimal (I think) questions asked.

And another thing that changed last night? I played the game by myself for a bit...that's right just me. I leveled myself (a Night Elf Mage BTW for anyone who cares to know) allllllll the way up to level 10.

The one thing that is irking me though is I have one quest to turn in that I did later than M and I cannot find out where to turn it in. I'm following along with the map getting where I think it should be and...nothing. Sooooo what am I going to do tonight while my darling husband is working on some work stuff?? Not laundry or dishes certainly...I am going to turn in that darned quest. Oye what in the world is happening here???

Why hello there...

So I came across the idea for this blog Thanksgiving while talking with my Husband (Software Developer by day, Gamer by night) {Hereinafter referred to as M} and my Cousin (who works for an online gaming company) about deciding between the merits of going to PAX East or BlizzCon for M's birthday present (of course we agreed that E3 would be the best, but alas...impossible to get into...)

It kind of dawned on me that I know next to nothing about any of these games...We played World of Warcraft very briefly when we were first married but then life got in the way and I stopped playing. I have absolutely no hand/eye/brain coordination so I find those types of games difficult and haven't really gotten into them. Then again I really havent tried either.

Fast forward to a couple of weeks ago and I decided to give W.O.W. another try (knowing it would make M a happy guy). This time I started playing it on an actual desktop computer that M had built for gaming purposes and compared to the laptop I was playing on last time the difference is night and day...so I think I may just keep this up.

Not only do I want to keep this up but I want to give other games a try too...let M show me the ropes.

So this blog will be a way for me to chronicle my learning experinces, review games and so on and so forth. Gaming I think will become our escape from everything, the kids, work, house work, and what not.

...and hopefully I'll get enough of the lingo down to understand and enjoy what ever conference we decide to go to next year :)

Foto Friday :)

Here's a little of what goes into making a great Team M.A.C.K. family photo :)

Gotta love timers huh? At least we got one!

Then we had some family fall fun :)

I think this has to be my favorite photo of the two of them I have yet :) Dunno why, you can't even see their faces, but I love it.

A's Six Month Stats

Ok, so I know I'm late with this post, but what else is new huh? Here are her stats!

Height ~ 26.5 inches 75%

Weight ~ 16.8 pounds 50%

She doesn't have any teeth yet, but she has been drooling and chewing on everything in sight so hopefully soon. She also isn't rolling over yet, but she is *a l m o s t* there, literally, she goes from her back to having both her knees and tummy touching the floor, all she has to do is get her shoulder over and she'd be done, but she gives up and flips back. Ah well soon hopefully. (C was a late roller too and she was a very early walker).

What A is doing is sitting up on her own (until she spazzes and throws herself backward lol).

She is eating like a pro and just loves anything that comes in a jar. Also in the picture below you can see her hair is coming in like crazy (literally ~ in the right light she looks like a crazy person) it looks like it's coming in an ash blonde/extremely light brown color. Right now it looks straight, but who knows what it will look like once it starts getting longer :)

She also loves being in her jumper which has earned her the nickname the "happy bouncer" :)

And she just LOVES doing anything that involves her big sister, and luckily her big sister loves being with her too (most of the time lol)

And in addition to the above, so far, month 6 has seen her first Snowfall and her first Halloween!

DIY Christmas to-do

Christmas To-Do list for this week, it's alot, but I think/hope I can do it...

1. Cut pieces for A's and CJ's turtles

2. Color salt ornaments

3. Make pattern and cut pieces for C's dolls

4. Paint Beds for C's dolls

5. Finish blankets for C's Dolls

6. Make Cat beds for APF donation

7. Cut pieces for M's present

8. Cut pieces for A's Cat Softie

9. Cut pieces for CJ's Rocket Softie

Essentially what it boils down to is to make *something/anything* out of this pile of stuff...

***Disclaimer...yes I AM fully aware it is not even Thanksgiving yet...thanks for the reminders though :) ***

Foto Friday :)

It's a pre-Thanksgiving Turkey convention...they must feel safe in our yard since they see the Christmas lights are up :)

And C saying goodbye to the Turkeys...or TurTeys as she calls them, we're trying to teach her a new word to go with each holiday/season (for example, Halloween her new word was Snow :) or Sah~NOH as she said :) )

We're also trying to get her to say "gobble, gobble, gobble" when you ask her what a Turkey says...right now she still says "tweet, tweet, tweet" guess it works they ARE still birds :)