Hooray for a new year.

Here's the recap of the last two months of our lives, as well as a commitment to update this thing every month so that I can look back at my kiddos and remember how cute they are and all the cute things they have done. I can't believe how the last few years have flown right by.
The holiday season was so magical for us this year complete with a Christmas miracle. The kids got really excited about all of the activities we were able to do.

This year we had decided that idea of a nice quiet Christmas here in Seattle would be pretty lovely and hassle freeup until the 23rd of December that is. Homesickness kicked in and we decided that we were definitely in need of a road trip. I hurried home from work that day, loaded up the car with all the gifts our loved ones had sent us and was off to pick up the kids at daycare and Jayson at work. The kids were clueless and convinced we were taking a ride to the North Pole. Christmas Eve morning when we showed up at Grandma & Grandpa Pete's, they couldn't have been more excited (we were pretty excited ourselves to be in icy sub zero Fielding). We got my parents out of bed and spent the entire day just relaxing and cooking dinner...my two favorite things.

The next morning we headed over to Grandma Chris' for suprise #2, then proceeded on to Jay & Shaley's house for suprise #3. It was so nice to just hang out and see everyone. The kids had the entire next week off of school for winter break, so me and the kids decided to stay and hang out in Utah while Jayson flew home for the week to work, then flew back out to drive us home a week later. What a sweetheart!

While we were in Utah we celebrated Gibson's 5th birthday with some ice skating, bowling, and of course cake and icecream. Jayson made his favorite....carrot! Yum! I can't believe we already have a 5 year old. He's such a sweet & and sensitive guy. I can't get enough of him. I wish I had kept better track of all the things he's learned over the past year, but there are just too many. He's really into cooking, singing, and making art, and in the last couple months at his school he's joined the reading group so we are really enjoying his participation in our story time at night.


We were also able to ring in the new year with the Petersen's while we were in Utah so here are a few photos from that.

We wish you all a Happy New Year! Can't wait to see where we'll be next month. You never know with us.