Merry Christmas we're sweating our a$$e$ off

In case any of you don't know, my family and I live in Florida. Which means even though we are listening to songs of snowmen and frost.. We are actually hot as hell and sweating our asses off even during this chilly holiday time. At our house holiday time has been  crazy! My kids go back and forth trying to steal presents from around the tree.. but mostly go after ornaments... my son has already managed to decapitate 2 so far... even though we have a baby gate around the tree...

On top of that my son has also  decided he is terrified of bathes and will only take showers (some days neither) and my daughter is teething and going through a growth spurt at the same time... which means mommy is up every 2 hours all night and has left me feeling more like the grinch rather than a happy elf most days... To add on top of it Christmas is 3 days away and we still have a ton of gifts left to buy and even after we finally finish shopping and wrapping. I have to separate them into four different piles.... yup you heard me... not only do I have two kids under 2 but we also like to live our life to the max by shoving them in the car for 4 hours in one day and celebrate 4 Christmases in 36 hours. We're crazy I know. But I wouldn't have it any other way! We love our families so much that if the only way to see them all is to put ourselves in toddler car hell for 4 hours we will. But to add to this Christmas madness we don't even get a break from this heat. It's sooooo hot that when I walk out the door in my Christmas lularoe leggings my ass is sweating before I even get to my car (thank god they are patterned) but they are pretty cute and the only thing that makes me feel like an elf instead of grinch or krampus so I  deal with it. lol

See super cute right?
So in the midst of this heat our sweet niece came to visit from Michigan where it is of course snowing. And we decided to give her a week of Christmas she would never forget.. a beach day! Lol  we packed up what felt like 2 weeks worth of baby junk including, diapers,  clothes, sunscreen, toy, snacks, snacks, more snacks, a blanket to sit on at the beach (that ended up covered in sand anyway) anddd oh ya my kids lol  finally after the back end of my expedition was full to the max. we headed off on our adventure to the beach. Traffic is awful and took almost 2 hours for what's normally a 45 min drive.... then we remembered oh ya all the northerners are down here cause it's cold as the ice age up there.... after recollecting my husbands sanity and asking my niece to never repeat the colorful language she heard my husband yell out during our car ride... we packed up our arms and rolls wagon and walked down to the beach. We were there probably all of 5 min when my daughter decided she couldn't live another moment without food (the growth spurt and anger from teething) after getting her full and happy. I (as any good mom would do) started taking 500 pictures of my daughters first trip to the beach. Most of them turned out of her crying and attempting to crawl away from me but I got a couple good ones

This one is my favorite! Can you tell she's gonna be sassy just like me?

My son decided that even though he wouldn't even touch the chicken nuggets or fries we had bought him on the way to the beach that he was gonna chow down on one of the finer things in life... sand... 

he decided he liked it so much he would shovel it into his buckets to dump in his face and into his mouth.. why can't he use this much effort to clean his room?  Or at least just use this new dumping skill to drink out of one of the 35 sippy cups I have. but I got some sandy kisses so I'll take what I can get. The hubs built a sandcastle and played in the water with the kids while my son rolled around in the sand. I on the hand , sat on the blanket bouncing our fussy daughter in my lap for 4 hours..  After the fussing and getting all sweaty and sandy and sticky we decided to load our little butts back into the car for another dreadful ride home... 

after arriving home I got to give bathes, wash 5 pounds of laundry, make dinner, give another bath cause my son wouldn't let me wash his hair the first time, fold the 5 pounds of laundry. And pray someone would make an invention that makes sand instantly disappear from your floors and car... nope no magical object fell from the sky... just my broom waiting for me.. I think it was God telling me an invention already exists I just had to get off my butt and use it... but hey! At least my kids were exhausted and went to sleep early tonight so mommy could have a much needed glass of wine! Gotta love Christmas from sweaty Florida and idiots who think they can go on adventures with babies and toddlers like me lol