Up To??

What HAAVVEE we been up too since Christmas and the start of this new year? Well, let us show you in a wave of photos. I may end up doing this in a few posts!

First, we open the first morning of the year with COLORING:

Next we have home made hot chocolate with marshmallows. The boys made a fire outside and us girls made some drinks and we all sat inside actually because it was still too cold even with a fire to stay out there too long.

We have play time at the park. Vance LOVES his daddy!
A little story goes with this photo. We haven't really ever done any fireworks for the New Year, but this year is special. I can't remember if we ever wrote on here our July 4th experience but in short we talked the kids into waiting until the day after the 4th to get their fireworks because we could get more for the $$. Well, we loaded up and went to town on the 5th of July and couldn't find anything that was open. They had just passed a new law... Anyways, Nate and I felt like the WORST parents in the world. So when Christmas came around we felt as if we could redeem ourselves a little with some fun fireworks for the New Year. We had plans to do them with Grandpa and Grandma Carne but honestly...we forgot that night... so we did them the next day.
The kids had soooo much fun with the sparklers. They would start them from the wrong end and watch them burn their way out. they'd start a hand full at a time. They'd have races to see who's would last the longest...

Coming up next is our trip to the beach and the 'sneaker' wave!