Happy New Year!

Happy New Year!!! In honor of our Irish heritage, we celebrated the New Year 6 hours ahead of schedule with Ireland. Caitlin made the beautiful sign and Hailey the Jello shamrock. We also had corned beef and cabbage with New potatoes, green dinner rolls, and Irish apple dumplings. Well the apple dumplings weren't Irish, but they were yummy!

We toasted the New Year with green sparkling apple cider!
It's 2011 and we've got the luck of the Irish...and we get to go to bed early!

Christmas Day

Christmas Morning! We got to sleep in till 8am, yippee!! The girls got a ton of great things, like Zoobles from their Awa D in Michigan. Hailey is sitting next to her new "Dude" scope, that's what she screamed when she opened it (It's a Duo-microscope) and Ducky is wearing the glasses Santa brought for Caitlin's new American Girl doll.

We spent the afternoon eating turkey at Awa and Apa's house. The girl's made them a special glow in the dark stepping stone with their names on it and 2010. They were so proud of their hard work and that it really did glow in the dark!

And Aunt Michele came for Christmas! Later in the week they even got to have a sleep-over with Aunt Michele.
I won't even ask what time they finally went to bed. I'm just glad Awa was there too keep Michele in line ; ) LOL!!

Merry Christmas!!