Our Christmas and New Years!

But first does a year really make much difference?

Well you just look and see, the above picture was taken

January 2007!

And this one was taken just a few weeks ago in December 2007!

I can see a few differences how about you?

Our Christmas was wonderful as usual! The boys spent lots of time crafting! In the picture they are working on a paper "ginger bread" house, also do you like the paper candle on the table that Matt made!?!


I thought the basketball court was very cool!


Ry had his share of bad luck last month for some reason! Chipping his tooth was just another one of them.


On Christmas Eve the children put on a wonderful Christmas play!

I thought they did a FANTASTIC job!

They came up with everything on their own, costumes, dialog, and even songs! It was a very touching rendition!

Missy played Christmas songs on the piano while we sang!

We loved having some family around to spend Christmas with us it was so much fun!

Christmas morning we woke up to even more snow and Charly was happy to see diaper rash ointment in her sock ;)

Matt soon got involved in building with all his new building toys! Do you like his helicopter?

Or what about his Ferris wheel? He has built tons of things and even got a video of his spinning robot but it was taking to long to download so I will have to try editing before posting it.

For New Years we loved having our really good friends come spend some time. We had a fun time even if we don't look like a very lively bunch!

We can't believe another year has come and gone! We have had a great year and did lots of fun things I need to get busy and work on some slide shows of the past year I think we will be surprised at how much we actually did and how much everyone has grown and learned.

P.S. I had lots of fun in the kitchen during the holidays and managed to come up with some really yummy "healthified" things. Some were dinner rolls, peanut brittle MMmmmMMmm, peanut butter fingers, cinnamon rolls, lentil soup and probably something I'm forgetting. Don't worry as soon as I get them typed up I will post them. In fact I'm hoping to get a recipe blog up and going this year that will have all my recipes organized! There is just nothing like healthy home cooked food made with love!

Just a Thought: "As long as our government is administered for the good of the people, and is regulated by their will; as long as it secures to us the rights of persons and of property, liberty of conscience and of the press, it will be worth defending."

~Andrew Jackson~

Oh make it two: "Adversity is the state in which man most easily becomes acquainted with himself." ~John Wooden~