Happy New Years!!

Happy New Year!!  It has become a tradition in Whitney's family to have a New Years party with the kids.  The party includes crazy glasses, games, goody bags, decorations, and when the clock strikes midnight (really about 7:15) the kids got to jump in a room full of balloons.  It is lots of fun and the kids are plenty crazy.  

Great Wolf Lodge

We spent two days at the Great Wolf Lodge.  84 degrees at all times, water slides, wave pool, tons of fun!!

Fun with the cousins

It was so much fun to play with the cousins for two weeks.  The kids had a great time and the Texas weather was a great break from the snow!

Christmas 2008

Merry (late) Christmas!!  We had our first Christmas morning at home.  It was great.  The kids had fun and it was nice to sent our own traditions.  That afternoon we headed to Texas to see Whitney's family.  It was the perfect mix of doing our own thing and still spending time with family.  

Waiting to see what Santa brought...

Opening presents

Opening presents...

Growing Puppy

Cosmo is a good puppy, but he is a dog and sometimes I wonder what I was thinking when I thought I could take care of another living thing.  Anyway he is here and we love him (most of the time).  He got his first full haircut yesterday and it was a mistake...he now looks much more poodle.  Hopefully it will grow fast.  Here is a before and after picture...

After

Before...so sad

Halloween

I'm so far behind on my blog that I decided not to catch up (at least for now). We had a great Halloween. The kids got too much candy but they were happy with the idea of donating a lot of it.

P.S. We named the puppy Cosmo. He's doing great. It's a lot of work, but a lot of fun. He did not like his costume it stayed on for about 2 seconds.

Halloween was crazy hair day at school so the boys were Jedi's with crazy hair. They loved it.