Our REAL Christmas Present . . .

On Monday morning this will be the sunrise we'll be waking up to. . .  You see, we (Jon and I) have had a secret from the kids for the last few months. On Christmas morning we gave the kids a card that said, "This year we are giving you the gift of memories. Good things come to those who wait." The kids didn't really do much with it other than toss it aside and go on playing with their new toys. Little do they know! Tomorrow morning we are heading to Hawaii for a week (Thanks to really low airfares!). I am SO excited for them! I guess because Jon and I go every year they talk about it ALL the time. Collin has been twice, the first time when he was 2 and the second for Jons brothers wedding when he was almost 5. Grace has been once when she was just a year. I'm hoping that it's going to be as good as I've been hoping!

I think this is a pretty good first anniversary of blogging post, don't you? Hopefully we'll have a few minutes to post while we're gone. 

Flash back

Do your kids (if you have them) like looking at old photo albums? Mine do, and I do too! It seems when we have a holiday we inevitably end up looking at pictures. The kids love to see themselves when they're little. 

Yesterday I looked at Grace doing some school stuff  . . . 

And saw my little 18 month old baby but with longer hair. . . 

I think it's so fun to see kids do the same things they've always done. It's fun being a mom!

Got Wii?

With it being our first post of the new year, I suppose I should be saying something profound . . . then again, it is pretty profound that we succumbed and bought a video game console!!!! Which is also why I haven't posted in so long. We have been having too much fun bowling, boxing, dueling in tennis etc. to do much posting. (That and the fact that I have been sore from my neck to my feet since Christmas!) So without further ado let me introduce you to my little friend . . . 

I have taken a lot of pictures of us playing on the wii but pictures don't capture the "3D" of playing on it. We also have video of all of us playing (videotaping is Collins new hobby), but that should not be shown to those outside our family. SO, I think this video will do justice to the excitement and complete dumbfoundedness (is that a word?) the kids had about it. You have to realize that we have always had a "no video games" rule in the house. I am posting this even though I am showing how bad and crabby of mother I am. In case you forgot, Collin is a Lego fanaAtic, so he was building his latest set (which absorbs his whole mind and body) and Grace had started opening it (does that give me some justification?) . . . 

After all the excitement, Collin immediately returns to the Legos . . .