New Years Eve

On the to do list for when we got back home...build Preston's Lego Fire station. Kyle helped him with the big parts and Preston built the vehicles. He was so excited to have it finally built. Legos are so cool. There are doors on it that roll up like a garage door...genius!

After we got back and started opening up presents, we were overwhelmed with boxes and stuff. Stuff everywhere!  We are busting out of our house as it is so we were wondering how we'd find a place for everything. It took a couple days to sort through everything and take down the Christmas tree and decorations and lights and get the house back to normal. That's kind of the bad part of Christmas...dealing with the aftermath and making room for new things. The fun part for me is shopping for the gifts and giving them. We also had to make a few returns so we did that on New Years Eve. Kyle took off a few days so he had a little over a week off between Christmas and New Years. He enjoyed the time off and he deserved it. New Years Eve was laid back. We got Thai food takeout and all the kids were in bed by 8pm. Kate was going to stay up until midnight, but was not feeling well (come to find out she had Strep Throat). Kyle was watching a movie and I was reading a book. We watched the countdown and then went to bed. Pretty exciting! We have big hopes and dreams for 2014 so hopefully they come true!