Merry Christmas & Happy New Year!!!

Hope everyone had a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year 2009. We all did had a lot of fun, although I am personally glad its all over. Alena was very excited about her big dollhouse Santa brought her and the boys will be playing the 10 new Wii games they got for many months to come. We are all completely addicted to the new Super Mario Brother Wii game and its brought many hours of family bonding time. We also got new furniture right before Christmas, which was desperately needed, although it is still in the process of being broke in. Brian finally got a GPS unit which will help us tremendously on our trip to Toronto and Niagara Falls in June! We got a lot of nice stuff, but most importantly got to share some quality time with all our family and friends. Christmas was a little crazy, but it always is and its well worth it in the end. We had 6 different Christmas functions within 2 1/2 days, so things got a little hectic but it all worked out fine.

New Years Eve was also fun. We had our usual group of friends over, minus a few who have gone through some serious transitions over the past year or so, but everyone in attendance seemed to have a good time. We ate well and drank well and were definitely merry! All the children stayed up until midnight and Brady even helped clean up after the party at 3 am! Unfortunately Brian had to work 14 hours the next day, but the rest of us enjoyed sleeping in and being lazy the rest of the day. The boys went back to school on Monday (1/4) after their long winter break and seem to be back into the swing of things. They both have had a great first semester of 6th grade, with Alex having straight A's and Brady having all A's with one B. After only three days back they already had a snow day on 1/7. Alena was upset that day that she still had to go to school and didn't get to have a "stay home day" too.