“Hello…My Name Is Nikki, And I Am A Neglectful Blogger…”

Ok, I Suck At Posting But Let Me Explain…

I know you all have been busy as well and you don’t want to hear my excuses but here it goes…Christmas decorating, work,Christmas tree (*see note below), Christmas presents, visiting, Christmas baking, appointments, educational courses, Christmas Wrapping, company, New Year’s Eve, New Year’s Day…did I mention...

C – H – R – I – S – T – M – A – S!!!!!


~Here is a slideshow of our Christmas tree and Christmas Eve at my Mom's
house. As you will see my tree is "excessively" decorated and therefore
takes many hours.

* Approx. time for lights - 8~9hrs.
* Approx. time for decorations - 6~7hrs.

I believe I may be a little anal when it comes to the
Christmas tree, lol! But I learned from the best...my Mom's tree is on
page 5 of the slideshow...see what I mean!?!?

More Christmas pictures to come!

We had a wonderful Christmas, busy as usual and filled with lots of friends and family. We enjoyed lots of relaxing time together and had a lot of fun with our “wee” and new “wee fit”. These are amazing game systems, so fun & interactive.

Here is a picture of the fantastic gift we each received from my best friend Lisa. She makes these personalized licence plates and they are completely tailored to have what you want on them! These were such a surprise!! We LOVE them!

I plan on getting her to make more so I can give them to friends and family as gifts for upcoming occasions. Here is a close of each one...

I can’t wait to put this on my car!!!

While I was "otherwise occupied" we hit another LID milestone…2 YEARS!!! It’s hard to believe it has been that long since we were officially logged in.

Some days it feels soooo long ago and others it just feels like last week we were sending the documents off in the mail. Either way, we are and will hang in there until we are holding our precious little bambino!

Today was our first ~“Wait” Watchers~ meeting since the holidays and I was sure I had gained weight after stuffing my face all over the Christmas break but guess what!!!!!!! I LOST!!! Ok so it was VERY minimal but hey…I didn’t gain! I am now over the 25lb mark!!

"Gone, Gone, Gone, I've Been Gone So Long...

I've been gone, gone, gone so long!"


I don’t even know where to start to try and catch up. I am weeks behind on my emails, I am trying to get caught up on the blogs I follow and recently my posting here has been non-existent. Between Christmas, New Years, being sick and switching offices at work I have felt like I don’t even have time to go to the bathroom!

Here is a slideshow of some of our holiday fun.

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We had a wonderful Christmas with our friends and family. As usual we celebrated with too much good food and drinks, so now we are headed back to the gym so we can work off all of our consumed goodies.

Here is a slideshow of some of our favorite kiddos durring the holidays.

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While I was taking my blog hiatus we passed a major milestone on our adoption journey. We have officially been logged in with CCAA for 1 YEAR!!! Here is what the count up meter on my blog looked like on Jan. 29, 2007:
















In honour of our 12 months down I would like to share this video:






We rang in the New Year with our friends Lisa & Jeff and Erin & Derek and all of their adorable kiddos. The evening was spent with good food and lots of laughs and of course fireworks!
















Larry and the girls waiting for the fireworks.


















Jeff shooting off his gun at mdnight. Now that is a smokin' gun!
















There is so much more blogging to be done but Larry has just challenged me to a game of Yahtzee so it is my duty to now go kick some butt, lol!

Christmas Tree Challenge 2007

A few weeks ago Catherine put out a Christmas Tree Challenge to all blogger's that wanted to participate. Of course I was on board with this challenge but the holiday's took over and time got scarce so FINALLY, I am posting my 2007 Christmas tree. Like they say, better late than never!

Some of my favourite tree ornaments are ones that were passed down from my grandmother, I also love the ones made by my Mom as well as all of my Precious Moments ornaments. Below are just a few that I love to put on my tree each year.











I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas surrounded by friends and family!

CHARLA is home with her Mommy, Daddy and 4 brothers! Congratulations again Dawn! Best wishes to all of your family! Cherish every moment with your sweet baby girl, she is a dream come true!
To see the pictures of Charla on Dawn's blog click HERE.

Retail Therapy ~ 2 Day Marathon!

I am so excited! My bags are packed, my credit card has no balance and I am ready to shop till’ I drop!!!


Tomorrow morning my Mom and I are off for two straight days of MAJOR shopping!!






We try to do two overnight shopping trips a year and this is our Christmas trip. I hope I can get the majority of my shopping done tomorrow and Friday so that I am not running around like a chicken with my head cut off come the 23rd of December.














I am taking my laptop with me so hopefully if I am not too tired I will post again tomorrow night to let you all know how our day was. Otherwise I will post on the weekend sometime … between putting up our tree and decorating it!