Merry Christmas and Happy New Year

I hope everyone had a Merry Christmas and will have a great New Year!
We have been enjoying our time off from work and there is still some celebrating around the corner. I have been spending some time with my sister and it has been fun.
The kids had a great Christmas and Jake and Owen are enjoying all of their new toys that family gave and Santa brought!

I love the new year and all the possibility it brings!!! Happy New Year- More pics to come ! : )

Some recent action, snow shots........ ( not really action, but you know)

Here are some recent snow pics after our first major accumulation. Jake is loving the snow- he is really playing in it for the time since we have been living here. Daddy made him an igloo and he also loved pretending he was "king of the world" on top of a very small pile. We made snow angels which he thought was pretty cool!

Owen, on the other hand, doesn't really care for it. He plays a little, but once he loses a mitten, or his hat blows off- then the tears come. He also is not so steady on the snow so- more tears, and he is pretty much ready to come in.
He did enjoy riding his bike down the driveway, over and over but there wasn't snow involved with that.

A lot going on....

There has been so much going on here.... too many things to do, the holidays, the kids sick at different times, work, home stuff , the list goes on and on..... I am way overdue at putting pics up - so here are just a few- and I will try and be more diligent about updating!!

Trying to get the shopping done for Christmas..... thinking about whether I should make cards this year, should I include a Christmas letter, and also trying to decide what to make for cookies....

We put up lights in the boys room- they love it- will post later with those and then of course we have so many lights everywhere else. I didn't have as much "decor" up since I unloaded alot this past year- which I am glad!!!

Here are some pics from Thanksgiving, the Christmas train and some other stuff- so ENJOY!