Another year gone!

It's been a busy holiday season and I can't say that I'm sad to see it gone! It was a stressful time of year with money and economic woes. The kids however, don't seem to notice that there is any shortage. They had a great Christmas and got pretty much every gift on their list including *gasp* Kelsey getting a cell phone. She has been asking for one since she was about 7. This year Santa decided to oblige but with a few stiupations - it is prepaid and we will buy her a certain amount of minutes a month and then if she runs out it's up to her to earn the money needed for more. So far she's done awesome and hasn't even used 1/3 of the amount the phone came with and still has two cards that she was given for christmas to purchase more minutes.

Bradens only request was a for a helicopter transformer and a I think a dumptruck transformer. He got both along with 4 nerf guns. I can't walk thru the house without finding nerf bullets ALL OVER the place. The cat thinks they are great fun to play with at 4 am if there is a stray left out.

The rest of the holidays were just as busy. We had Thanksgiving with my Grandparents in Mount Vernon - it was great seeing all of them. Christmas Eve was spent with Scotts parents at his Uncle Boyd's house. Where nerf gun battles ensued.

Christmas day was pretty laid back. We had a quiet morning at home with the kids and Scotts parents. Christmas afternoon we went to their house for dinner and had a movie marathon. THREE movies in one evening. My favorite was Four Christmases - that movie is a blast.

New Years Eve was spent at home with company coming to us. We had about 15 people there not counting kids - the kids may have outnumbered the parents. :) All kids made it until midnight including Braden. New Years day we drove to Pasco and spent another christmas with my mom's side of the family. We always have a ton of fun and did a DVD exchange in lieu of name draw gifts this year. The theme was christmas movies. We ended up with a couple good ones but I still need to get The Santa Clause - I need that darn movie! :)

We're finally getting back on track here and my goal is to get back in shape. Starting last night I play soccer on Thursday and Sunday for the next 7 weeks. Thursday night is an all womens adults team - whole new ball game compared to what I've been used to for the last 10+ years of playing coed. I realized that I am even more out of shape than I thought and some of these women are damn good.

I will save the rest for the next post and hopefully be more consistent in my updating for 2010. Perhaps I'll make that my new years resolution since I didn't make any others. :)