Thumbs Up/Thumbs Down 2013 #3:

Up:

• Jackson is almost ready to be finished with naptime pull-ups (I think)! It's been about two weeks since he's wet his diaper during nap. So proud of him! He even went the whole night on Saturday without wetting his pull-up. He just doing so well and it makes this mommy happy!
• I'm sure you all know we've gotten a lot of snow and cold weather up here. Mike was on leave Thursday through Sunday and we had big plans to go down to Salt Lake City and spend that time with his brother Pat. The snow had other plans for us though :( The up side of this is that we did some major purging of junk in our house! We really needed to attack the garage too, but I think we'll have to wait for warmer temperatures. Hopefully when Mike has some leave in February we'll be able to make it to SLC and see Pat.

Down:

• It's been so nice spending so much time with Mike this past week, but on Wednesday he leaves for 2 1/2 weeks - boo! I'll have to conjure up some fun activities for the kids and I to keep from missing Daddy. These are some pics from Mike's birthday last week.

• As mentioned above it snowed more. I'm so ready to be able to go out of my house and stand being outside for more than 2 seconds. The temps this week don't even get above 25. In fact it's snowing as I'm writing this post.

Attempting to build a snowman, but the snow was way too dry.

Hooray for McD's play place when the weather is cold. Wish the McD's in Mountain Home had them. 

This is what happens when you play on furniture like it's a jungle gym. Jackson got pinned between his little red chair and the TV cabinet. He now has a black eye and goose egg on his forehead - poor fella!

Favorite Thing:

As I've mentioned many times before, I like to be organized. If you've never tried any of the 3M Command Hooks, they are fabulous.  They were on sale this past week for 30% off at Jo-Ann's, not sure if they're still on sale this week. Here are some of the ways I've used them.

These are on my stairway banister to hold holiday garland at Christmas time.

Perfect in the kitchen to hold various utensils.

This one I added to the kid's play kitchen to hold their aprons and hot pads.