Christmas!

I know, I know! I haven't posted any Christmas pictures yet! I was going to post them all here but after uploading them on facebook I decided I would just post the slide show of my Picasa album here instead. We had a wonderful Christmas here. I think we all really enjoyed the season this year and it was just wonderful to spend the special time of year together. Randy and I took the kids to see some Christmas light displays one night as is our tradition a few days prior to Christmas Eve. My extended family came over to our house Christmas Eve for our annual family Christmas dinner. Gran Julie came over to spend Christmas morning with us and we are so glad she did. The rest of Christmas day, we stayed home and just played and had fun. Aaron left that night to go on a vacation to see some of Heather's family and to a UNC game for the week following Christmas. While they were away, we kept Heather's two mini schnauzers. The Sunday following Christmas we rode over to visit Grandpa and some of the Willis family. We also enjoyed several parties, church activities, ice skating, and more during the Christmas season. It made for a busy month but I wouldn't change a thing! As you can imagine, all the fun means I took LOTS of pictures! For anyone interested in seeing what we were up to in December as we celebrated the birth of Jesus, check out this slide show!

We are Here!!

Wow, I have been so slack here! I really don't have an excuse other than I have just been living life and haven't taken the time to get on here to update. I also have so many pictures to share, that I didn't want to take the time it will take to post them all! Anyhow, here is a quick update.
We finished co-op the week of Thanksgiving. We are enjoying the break. There have been lots of activities going on, CLA, Tai Kwon Do, church, youth, children's choir, drama for the adult cantata, outings, friends, school, life in general.....just busy-ness.
Aaron, Kristen and I went to a youth conference in Gatlinburg, TN the week before Thanksgiving. We had a great time with the group that went. Since then it seems the time has just flown by and here it is almost Christmas. I am just totally enjoying the season this year. We have finished our shopping and decorating and I have been working on some baking. The children's choir performed a couple weeks ago and the adult choir performed last weekend. We have visited Santa at the mall and will be going out to look at Christmas lights tomorrow night. I have a few friends coming over in the morning to make some ornaments and have coffee and goodies!
I think that is all. That doesn't look like much of an update but really, we have just been enjoying living life. I am going to make a slide show with some pics and post it soon instead of trying to catch up on two months worth of pictures. I will try to do a better job at keeping up after Christmas has passed and we are back to normal school days.