Happy Christmas!

Hope you all had as fun a christmas as we did! Gramma Jaynee and Papa Philip spent the night on Christmas Eve and woke up before anyone else and opened all their presents before Sydney could even make it down the stairs! She did notice that Santa had eaten the cookies she left for him. It was a lot of fun. We only took a couple photos this year and Peyton wasn't even in them! ha! At least we have a bit of video.

Sydney putting out cookies, milk, and carrots for Santa and his reindeer.

Our tree after Santa came.

Our stockings filled from Santa.

Here are some silly pictures of us having a bit of fun. The one of me Sydney took by herself! Have a fun and safe New Year!

That's Not My Name

Happy Holidays...

The End and The Start

In 4 days I return to work. It will be nice to get MY office back and MY stuff back from the guy that has been using it in my stead, but it is going to be a lot harded than I thiought to leave the kids. I couldn't even make it through two hours of shopping 3 miles from the house with the kids left with gramma and papa. I cried, I called the house, I shook....how the heck am I going to leave them at daycare in 3 weeks? I know it will get "easier," but to start out I'm going to be a wreck. I have really enjoyed taking these 3 months off. Peyton will be almost 4 months old when they go to school, it was so great to be able to do that. They will be home with Jason for the next 3 weeks. We are very fortunate to be in the situation we are to take that kind of time with them. And, I'll be working 4 ten hour shifts so I'll even have a full 3 days home with them, that will be great! So the end of "stay at home mom" has come and the start of back to work begins.

Also, the end to "not working out" has come! I have officially purchased my airfare to San Francisco where I will meet Steph and we will travel to Monterey to compete in the Sea Otter Classic in April. Therefore, I HAVE to start working out now....only 4 more months, nearly to the day! I'm so excited I can hardly stand it! I will, given the children go to bed easily tonight, be getting on my bike tonight on my indoor trainer, turn on the Jazz game, and spin away! If only it would take one night of 30-60 minute spinning to return myself to 5 hour century condition!

I will also be riding, once again, in the Tour de Cure for diabetes in June as well as the MS150 a couple weeks later. So I will be hitting you all up for donations ;) in fact, Jason has decided to start training for those rides too! Go team Gillman!!! (mom, dad, can you watch the kids during the ride? ;) )

So as scary as some of those things are that are ending, there is so much to look forward too as well. I got Peyton laughing today, Sydney is dancing, and all is well.

Unfortunately, this is the only recent photo I have of me! Yuck! Ha!

Peyton Fits Right In!