Christmas and New Year

Happy 2011....
We had a pretty busy December. Mike was off for a week ,then there was my birthday, Christmas and New Years. We also had to fit in some school (admittedly it was spotty at best...lol) and other Christmas activities (we even rode a double decker London bus to look at lights!), church and visits to and from friends and family. There was lots to do; decorating the house, making cookies and goodie baskets, shopping, wrapping gifts, the kids made ornaments for their homeschool group. Then there was the really fun stuff... cuddling on the couch reading the Christmas story, drinking hot coco (when it finally decided to get cold...lol), looking at Christmas lights, watching Erika and her wonder at everything and best of all going to church and hearing about the birth of Christ.
Fireworks are now legal here so we set some off to bring in 2011. Yay! (4th of July is gonna be soooo muuch fuuuunnn!) :)
Yesterday was our first time in over 2 weeks to see some of our homeschool buddies, so we met up at the zoo.
I do have lots and lots of pictures, but I will just pick a few of the better one's to post here below. I hope you all had a wonderful holiday season, I know we did. We are certainly looking forward to a great 2011.

If you want to see more pics of the fireworks, or the crazy weather we have been having here you can check out my photo blog here. Thanks!

Happy Holidays

Happy 2009!
Sorry I have not posted for the last two weeks... time just got away from me this busy holiday season.
We spent Christmas with my folks. It was a lot of fun. The kids had a blast and made out with lots and lots of STUFF! But it was great to see family and being able to catch up with them. My folks were great, and I know that they love the kids... even when Tim and Lex are climbing all over them and getting into everything... LOL.
Ok funny story. In the photo above you will notice that my son has these festive candy cane socks on. He got the socks about a week before Christmas from my MIL. He has worn these sock almost everyday since then. He got upset while we were visiting my folks because we made him take them off because they got wet. LOL. Even as I write this he walked out in his pj's and candy cane socks. It's strange the things kids get attached to. :) Anyway just thought I'd share...
While we were in Yuma, Erika had her two month photo taken with Mr. Bear: She is growing like a weed. She is very smiley and generally a very happy baby. She is reaching out for things now and loves to laugh at her silly brother and sister.
So after all that we come back home and on Sunday celebrated again with Mike's family. Shesh, talk about more stuff. LOL. They love it (of course!) and have made much use of most of the stuff they got.
So we have been very busy, and as we now enter 2009 things are already stacking up... appointments and classes and play dates are already scheduled for this next month alone. So we will once again do our best to keep everyone updated with photos.
So as we start this new year I will post the last photos I took in 2008. Yes, Mike and I spent much of new year's eve playing with our night owl daughter on her mat. I could not think of a much better way to bring in the new year.
Happy Holidays and may God grant you much grace and peace this next year!