Happy New Year's PAR--TAY!!!

We threw a New Year's Eve party at our place. It was fun since we'd mostly just painted the house the rest of the holiday break. We had 3 families over at 6:30pm and we just hung out and ate party food until 8:30pm when we shot off fireworks, then we came inside and did a big count down and toasted with Martinelli's and blew party pipes. Some people left to put kids to bed and some hung out until around 10pm. Then we cleaned up and put the kids to bed around 10:30pm. Craig and stayed up to watch Dick Clark and welcome the new year. It was really fun! We took these pix BEFORE everybody got here. We really did have people over and not imaginary friends, really.

Even Super Heros get tired

Over Christmas Taylor enjoyed being either Superman or Spiderman everyday (and he sleeps as spiderman everynight, which comes in handy since it's been cold)! Craig and Taylor enjoyed their weekly "football game" nap on Sunday. Funny how just watching football can wear them out! :>

Merry Christmas to ALL!

The first pic is Katie and Taylor writing a note to Santa and leaving him cookies and rudolph magic oats and carrots. The second pic is Katie's new ballerina wear for her dance class. The last pic is our visit from Spiderman!! He is still with us. He was spiderman ALL night long and still is wearing his dinosaur rainboots!

New Light

Thanks to Mommo and Dad Starkey's gift of a Lowe's giftcard we finally got our new chandalier! It's so beautiful! We also got a box of 6 hallway lights in the oil-rubbed bronze and installed them in the hallways upstairs and down! After replacing the lights we got new knobs for the cabinets! what a difference!

The Griswolds are Brazilian!

Our neighbors across the street have this going every night! As many lights and blow-up Christmas things as possible in their little yard! Stuff on the porch and even on the roof! It's awesome! He's a painter and they are so fun and like the title says, they're Brazilian!

Mmmmmbbssss!!!

Leisy and Kent got me addicted to their sprite and cranberry concoction and I ran into this at a holiday party. It also comes in diet and it's AWESOME! Sadly, it's just a holiday thing so it'll be gone after the holiday. super yummy!

Candlelight Tour of Biltmore

On Friday night Craig and I got to go to the Candlelight tour of the Biltmore Estate! Wow! It was gorgeous! The house is huge and so beautiful and they have it all decorated for Christmas and a choir is singing carols! We also had a fantastic dinner in the stable(it's a restaurant that is built onto the house). It was so fun and we hope that GE does that for it's Christmas Party every year!!