Lost!!

Jercie and Blaze both had Walmart gift cards that were burning holes in their little pockets so I took them to town and let them spend their money. Jercie wanted to get the most out of her money so she took forever picking out the things she wanted to buy. She ended up with a bunch of junk really. Blaze wanted a Nerf Stampede but it was more than he had money for so he settled for a different Nerf gun and a set of 2 Nerf guns and a target.
We were in line at the self checkout forever and there was a huge line behind us. I hate when people have to wait on me so I hurried as fast as I could to get all our stuff scanned and bagged. I got the kids all loaded in the car and all their loot. I took the basket to the cart barn and saw a girl I went to high school with. I got in the car and headed to KFC to grab some dinner. I got to KFC and realized that my purse wasn't in the passenger seat. I went back to Walmart to see if it was still in the cart. No such luck. I unloaded the kids and rushed into the store. I talked to the customer service people and asked if they had seen an ugly green purse with a pink flower on it. Nope they hadn't, so I asked the cashier at the self checkout if she had seen it. Nope so I asked the cart guy. Guess what, nope he hadn't either.

I called Mike in tears. I lost my purse and can't find it anywhere. He told me to call the credit card company and cancel the card and he would call the cops just in case somebody stole it.
While I was on the phone with the card company the cop showed up and so did Mike. I told them both what had happened. The officer was really nice but didn't think we would have much luck recovering my purse. Mike decided to run in and check with the store one more time before we left. Just as the cop was getting ready to leave here comes Mike, ugly green purse in hand. He talked to the one person I hadn't thought about asking. The greeter. Duh!
So since I canceled the card and it was Saturday night I was SOL on using it until Tuesday when I could get a new one. I went to the bank Tuesday morning and their card system was down. Bank wide. Sucks to be me right? Right. By Friday it still wasn't up. So I have been  cardless for over a week. It's a sad day for sure when I can't shop online... Luckily Mike let me borrow his card to buy these super cute shoes that were only on sale for 2 days :)

I'm hoping when I go to town tomorrow to get groceries their card thing will be back online and I can get a card and get all my automatic payments set back up. What a pain in the neck. Seriously!

Happy Christmas and Merry New Year

Well Christmas and New Year's have come and gone. Thank goodness. What a crazy month or 2 it has been for our family.
We did the same thing we do every year for Christmas. Go to the town party, dinner at my mom's on Christmas Eve, Christmas Breakfast and dinner at my house. This year my mom did the prime rib and I did the turkey. It was the first time I've ever cooked a turkey and I must admit it turned out pretty good. It was a little dry but not too bad.
Christmas Eve we also did the usual cheeseball, crackers and Pepsi for Santa. And we made some reindeer food to put on the lawn for the reindeer, obviously.
We sent the kids to bed and Mike passed out on the couch. He had gone to work at 8:15 pm on the 23rd and got home at 1:00 pm on Christmas Eve. So guess who got to put all the presents out. Finally at about 11 we went to bed. This was the first year I wasn't up all night excited like a little kid. I must have been tired. At 4:50 Jercie came in our room  to let us know that Santa had made it to our house. We woke Kaia up and by the time I got my parents called Blaze was awake too. We opened stockings while we waited for Grammy and Papa to get here. Then we opened some presents when they still hadn't shown. Right as we were about to open Santa presents they showed up. The kids got all kinds of fun stuff. Jercie didn't get everything on her list, but there were some things that I asked Santa not to bring. He did a good job with the stuff he did bring though. She got a DSi an Easy Bake Oven and a Pop Art Pixie water bottle. Blaze got everything on his list that he asked for. He got Lego Star Wars Lego Atlantis and an iPod shuffle. Kaia only asked for a Jessie, but she got that and a puppy with vet supplies, and a Toy Story hut. The hut was probably the best thing she could have gotten. She falls asleep in it every night.
I didn't get very many good pictures. My camera charger is still missing and I had to borrow my mom's camera that I'm not very familiar with. I can't find my card reader so no pictures for you!
For New Year's we were lame and hung out at home with the kiddos and watched Toy Story 3 and Shrek Forever After. Jercie was the only kid that made it to midnight. Blaze lasted til about 11:30 and decided he was tired and headed to bed. Kaia fell asleep on Mike's lap at about 10:30. Mother Goose made it and left Jercie some measuring cups and spoons and a little pet shop lady bug. Kaia got a Buzz Lightyear and Blaze got a Paper Jamz guitar.
All in all we had a great holiday! I hope everybody else did too.