2013

New Year's Eve was great!  

 We have had a great Christmas Break and it was a great way to end it!  I had to work but it was nice to come home to have the family all there waiting.  We had Papa Murphy's pizza and then Sara & Eldon invited us over for a night of games.  We played Gift Trap, which is a Christmas Eve game we got a few years back and haven't played for quite a while.  Jeremy was there with us and it really was just fun.  We intended to have the kids play together while the grown-ups played games, but half of the kids ended up on our laps.  After our big kid game time, Sara & I headed downstairs for some Just Dance 4 fun.  It was such a blast!  Tessa, Max, Julia, Chloe, Josie, Sara & I made a bracket and everyone took a turn.  Josie ended up winning overall.  

We were ready to head home about 10:30 and then it was sit and wait for the clocks to turn.  The kids were all in bed before that actually happened, but we considered our celebration a success.  Jon & I ended up staying awake until after 2, weird, but it was nice to just chill.  The next morning, we sat around until we finally decided to head to Grandma & Grandpa Tuckett's to open gifts from the Hardy's.  It was fun to have Christmas last an entire week longer than expected.  We then headed to Home Depot with Chloe and picked out paint for her bedroom.  That's just another step in making this house really our home.  She picked LIME green... has to be better than the putrid sunshine yellow we've got in there now.  I'm excited to get working on Chloe's quilt I've been planning for a few years.  We got home, relaxed the rest of the night, and headed to bed to get ready for reality.  School started the next morning and it was back into the normal schedule.  We're looking forward to getting back into the routine.  Soccer, piano, and now guitar lessons.  Woohoo.  

Game on.