Life is now back in session...

I absolutely love the holidays, sometimes I think I love it more than my kids even. This year for some reason got away from me. I didn't make any treats, I always felt like I was running a little behind, and then it was gone!! Anyway, now things are back in action, kids are back to school and back to work for me. We had a wonderful holiday so here it is in a nutshell:

Christmas Eve we spent with our good friends Cody and Debbie Clark and family. They are so great they always make us feel like we are part of their family. We did our usual thing, stayed up late wrapping, wrapping, wrapping. Cameron tried to wake us up at 1:30am, 3:30ish am, and finally we started our day at 5:30am!! Marty had our friend, Kurt, build me a sofa table. He is amazing with his woodworking skills, he and his wife are both incredibly talented! I also got a frame with a family picture, also from the Evans'. My kids made me some jewelry. Cam spent all of the money he had on his dad's present so he made me some large seashell barrettes with lots of wire- I will cherish them forever!! Poor Marty, Baylie and Cam bought him some Dolphins stuff, I just bought him the usual- clothes, underwear, chocolate, he is too hard to buy for. He wanted a new driver (golf club) but not going there, I tried, that's just not something you can't pick out for someone else. Baylie got a new camera, she is hogging all of the memory on our computer with her pictures! She was excited about her clothes. So was I, she didn't want to take anything back to exchange and I have actually seen her wearing it so maybe we're not on different planets just yet! Cam's favorite gift was his Boise State replica football helmet. That kid had a list a mile long and the helmet was not on there. So one afternoon, approx. Dec. 23rd we were driving home in the car and I asked both of my kids, "If you could choose just one thing on your list what would it be?" Cameron pipes up, "It wasn't on my list but I really love that helmet at Fanzz." So Marty runs there to pick it up, then you have to keep everything even between the kids so we frantically find more for Baylie. We ran in to say hi to Marty on Christmas Eve at the mall and Cameron wants to run down to Fanzz and look at the helmet again. When he came back he had a sad face, the helmet was gone, he wouldn't even be able to buy it after Christmas. Long story short, the look on his face was priceless when he opened it, and the man in the red hat was not getting credit for this one!!

For the new year, we will just play it day by day. Marty's surgery is now on the 14th instead of the 13th. As soon as we complete that hurdle we both have goals of losing weight, getting healthy and spending more time together as a couple and as a family, spending less money, and just feeling blessed with what we have and paying no attention to what we don't.

That said, Happy New Year. We truly are so lucky to have such beautiful kids, wonderful friends, we are employed and we have a roof to sleep under at night.