Happy New Year!!!!!!

I am a little sad that the holidays are over and it is time to get back to our normal schedules. I have enjoyed having the kids and Gary home with me for the past 10 days. We celebrated Christmas with my parents here visiting. We definitely had a great time watching the kids open packages and enjoying their new toys. Gary was working quite a bit before Christmas, so it was really nice to have him be able to spend some much time with us. We are hoping his schedule doesn't get as crazy again in January. Gary may be glad to get back to work, as he has had quite the "Honey Do" list to get completed...not that I wasn't right by his side sharing the work. We managed to get our storage/furnace room cleaned out (you literally could not get in the room any more for all the stuff we had stashed in there), we cleaned out our master closet (not as bad as the storage room was, but definitely needed cleaning out), purchased some new home electronics for the living room and a new entertainment center to put them in (which had to be put together and the old mammoth entertainment center disassembled (thanks for your help mom!!)) and lastly after almost 6 years in our home, we finally painted our dining room. The original flat paint the builder had used had definitely seen better days. And yes, can you believe it.....in February we will have been in our house for 6 years, it just doesn't seem possible to me!!! Oh.....I and I also got my husband to go furniture shopping for a new couch. We had to order it, so I am anxiously awaiting its arrival. Our old furniture is from the pre-children era and has definitely been abused by them, I am not sure they are really old enough yet to be kind to our new furniture, but we are just going to have to work on it since the arm is falling off of our current sofa :) We also took Justin and Megan to a place called The Fridge last week. It is an outdoor toboggan run. They clock your speed on the ride down, one run we were cruisin at 31 miles per hour....weeeee!!!!!