The last few weeks have been pretty crazy! As I'm sure it is for most people around the holidays. We had such a wonderful Christmas. We spent Christmas eve with Ian's Dad & Stepmom. She always makes delicous food, and we visit and eat and exchange gifts. It was a great visit even though I ended up with a migraine.

Christmas day was really cool. It's the first year since we've been married that we got to stay home and chill. The kids got to really take time to enjoy their gifts and relax. We hosted a BIG Christmas dinner here at our house. My Mom, Dad and cousins came around 2:00 to help me cook and visit. Then everyone else showed around 4:00. Lots of good food, and good company and great gifts!

Jacob's favorite gifts: Heelys (the shoes with wheels in the heels), star wars video games, and his new fuzion scooter (which was very hard for Santa to find)

Aaron's favorite gifts: Imaginarium train table set (from Santa), GeoTrax train set (from Uncle Jeremy), Thomas Train stuff (from Grandpa Reg)...do you see a theme here?! He's been yelling out "all aboard" very loudly since Christmas.

The girls got some cute outfits and a giant school bus play structure thing that Santa brought. They also got some board books, and some weeble wobble stuff, and too much other stuff that I can't think of right now. They didn't get the whole Christmas thing yet this year, and were definitely more into playing with all the sparkling bows and ripping the wrapping paper than anything else.

Ian was off from work from the 22nd till today. We really didn't do much of anything during our Christmas break. The babies had no appointments of any kind! So we just stayed around the house a lot.

New Year's eve was low key too. We were invited to a small kid friendly party, but we opted to stay home, eat a bunch of junk food and play "Life" the Sponge Bob edition that I got especially for that night. The boys made it till around 10:30, then fell asleep watching a movie in bed. Ian and I watched the ball drop, and headed to bed shortly after. We are so boring!!! We didn't even drink champagne!

I am looking forward to some normalcy in 2007! Less tears and sorrows and more joy and happiness. The babies are doing great! Staying healthy (knock on wood), and the only thing I'm not looking forward to is turning 30! Yes this year should be a good one. I'm not going to miss 2006, I'm glad it's over!

So now it's back to reality. Back to work for Ian, and school for Jacob (well almost, he came home early with a sore throat today). And Mady has 2 therapists from EI coming later today. They will be very pleased to see all that she's learned in the past 3 weeks! I will post more on both babies and some pictures later (probably tonight).

For now I must go play nurse to my sick 7 year old, and feed a hungry toddler. The girls are taking their nap, so hopefully I'll get some chores done! wishful thinking.

Peace!