70/101 -- Make Keira a big sister

I know it's almost a month late, but this goal was officially met on March 30th, 2011.

Callie Mackenzie was born at 7:40am weighing in at 7lbs 4oz and was 19 3/4 inchs long. She is the sweetest baby--so snuggly and very calm. Keira loves her baby sister and I have great hopes that the two of them will be the best of friends.

65/101 -- Keep my car clean and organized for a month

BOOM. Something I thought would never happen. A clean car with a toddler. I do have to sweep cheerios and goldfish out every few days and there ARE crumbs but clutter? GONE. I have stripped the car of excess crap and have kept it that way--not only for 1 month but going on 2. When I did a deep clean and installed car seat number 2 I did a major overhaul. I am pleased to announce that I have kept it clean. We'll see how long I can keep it up!

34/101 -- Order nachos at Qdoba

After 10 loyal years as a Qdoba fan, I finally broke down and ordered nachos. Don't get me wrong---I have stolen many bites from the hubs---but I have never actually ordered them myself. Why? I think the calories scared me. Due to the fact I was 9 months pregnant and had a pretty darn good excuse to consume the extra calories I went for it.

YUM.

55/101 -- Get hubs a tie rack for the closet

Exciting post right? Well, check that one off. I actually got him one for Christmas and the closet has never looked better. But is it truly picture worthy? I think not. But it's off the list. :)

43/101 -- Cancel Cable

I DID IT! Finally! It took a lot of guts to finally tell our local cable company that I QUIT, but I did it! And on the first Monday of the New Year to boot! A great way to start out 2011 is cutting out that ridiculous expense. To add to the bonus, we still get a ton of channels FOR FREE just through our HD tuner on our HD TV. We just plugged the cable in the wall and bam! Free TV! We still have internet through the company but our bill will be more than cut in half. Very awesome.

I did take a picture of my cable box, but since that is not very exciting, I'll spare you.

57/101 -- Make a Snowman in NC

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

We don't get a lot of snow here. Coming from Colorado, it was culture shock to me. Every winter I get really sad and depressed because of the lack of actual WINTER in this state. I LOVE snow. I would prefer -10 degrees and piles of snow to mild winters any day. YES, I'm serious. Then why did I move? I ask myself that too...

BUT ANYWAY. Christmas came early this year with a beautiful snowfall on December 2nd. Snow that early is unheard of in our part of NC. I didn't make it out to build a snowman and I kicked myself. When would I ever have another chance? Who knows. I may not see that good amount of accumulation for another 5 years. Seriously. It just does not snow like that here.

But then Christmas actually came. And there was snow. ON CHRISTMAS DAY! We had a white Christmas in NC. We were out of town in the mountains and when I peeked out the window at 7am Christmas morning, it was snowing. Big, white, fluffy flakes. And it was coming down hard. Not blizzard hard, but a lot at a time. I cried. I admit it. Never in a million years did I ever dream I would see snow on Christmas morning living in the South. It was the best Christmas present I could get.

We enjoyed the beautiful fluff until about 3:30 and headed home---a typical 4 hour drive. When we left there was about 5" on the ground and still coming down hard. It took us 5 hours to get home battling bad roads, but we made it. It had just started snowing at our house when we got home about 9pm. We had planned to do our family Christmas the next day (the 26th) since we got home so late. When we woke up the next morning we had at least 4" of snow and it was still coming down. TWO white Christmases!

View from our back porch

After opening presents the husband headed out for snow boots for the kids. To all of our surprise, we found some!

Keira did not want to take hers off after trying them on.

Time to bundle up and head outside to play! AND BUILD MY NORTH CAROLINA SNOWMAN!

Keira was not too pleased with the layers at first, but she had fun.

She is so stinking cute in all of that pink!

Time for a snowman! Took some time to get the balls packed down enough, but they finally came together!

Not too shabby!

Sisters

47/101 -- Get another iPod Touch

(and not ruin it). Well, I at least have half of the goal done! I got a new iPod Touch 4 for Christmas. It has a camera so I am really excited about that. I really want an iPhone but we have Verizon. The rumor mill has been churning out leeks that they will be getting one soon, but those have been flying for a year now and I have yet to see one actually be true. They will probably get it very soon though, just because I HAD to use my upgrade on my phone on Christmas Eve because my kid broke my phone in 2 pieces. I have been holding out for the iPhone to use my upgrade on, but I didn't really have a choice. ::sigh::

But hooray for a new iTouch! Now, I vow to keep it far away from all sippy cups, which is what fried the last one.