This year Christmas was wonderful... very laid back.. very lovely.. there was snow.. there was food.. there was plenty of family.. and Santa made his visit with no trouble at all... the kids were THRILLED!
Having Natalie home on Winter break was a blessing and a curse... the blessing was that she was with us all the time and we got to spend extra time with her that we don't get to when she's in school.. the curse is that this little kid THRIVES on a schedule.. take it away from her and there is usually trouble. pretty quickly. By day three we were having issues... but thankfully we made it through winter break and headed back to school today... inbetween we celebrated the New Year.. 2011.. wow! I can't believe we are in another new year already.. it's going by so fast.. it's hard to believe that this year that one of my kiddos is going to be 7 an the other is going to be that dreaded word : a TEENAGER! omgoodness.. how did they grow up so fast?! ;(
New Year's weekend Darrell's oldest daughter, Caitlin, came to visit us... it was nice having her with us and all the girls hit it off nicely... Natalie met her back on Thanksgiving weekend but this was the first meeting with her and Julia.. she was pretty nervous, to the point that she made herself sick and cried and cried about it to her momma the night before she came to our house... but Caitlin walked in and gave them Christmas presents and I have to say, "that's all it took" Julia was hooked.. Caitlin had gotten Julia silly bandz in the shape of peace symbols that she had been looking for.. and honestly that was it.. she was hooked from then on... it was quite comical.. ;) It was fun having another woman in the house.. I think Darrell was feeling very outnumbered.. the only thing that helped was Max, the dog.. ;) hehehe... we spent Saturday just hanging out around the house and getting to know one another.. we ordered pizza and watched "Dispicable Me"... the kids LOVED that movie.. on Sunday we went to my parents house for dinner and to open up stockings that included Caitlin as well... my mom has a wonderful tradition that she handmakes all of our stockings (we've had ours since we were little) and she was very nice to include Caitlin in the tradition as well... Dinner was nice, conversation was good and she got to meet my family (my parents and my brother and his wife.. all that was missing was my sister and her hubby Dave.. hopefully they'll get to meet sometime this summer!) It was really nice to have family around... I think that Caitlin had a good time with all of us.. here are a few pictures from the weekend...
Tim's Wife Rose and Julia Caitlin and Darrell
Tim sitting at my parent's house
My parents sitting on the couch watching the Colts game
(see the handmade stocking in the background?!) :)
Natalie playing the keyboard
Natalie and I on NYE 2011
Caitlin playing with her new phone from us.
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