Day 364 - Preparation!

We're headed up to Bay City area tomorrow to celebrate Christmas with another link in our family.  I made Molasses Bars and Cranberry Salsa.  Delicious!

Day 363 - Purge Day 3

Lots of stuff is happening around here.  I'm taking advantage of the fact that we're off of school and home.  The kids are enjoying their new Wii and I'm working hard cleaning stuff out!  It feels great!

Day 362 - Purge Day 2

It was Carsten's turn today!  His didn't take as long, but somehow I forgot to take a picture.  Bummer.

Day 361 - Purge Day 1

Tyrus and I spent about 4 hours today in his room.  How so much junk accumulates, I'll never know.  :)  It looks much, much better now!

Day 360 - The Aftermath

We slept in late today!  Once everyone was up and bathed, we put away some of the new items and then headed back over to Dennis & Mary Lou's house.  Ty and Stephanie worked on building his new (huge!) Lego Ship and the rest of us chilled out and ate leftover appetizers!

Day 359 - Christmas Day

I'm going to share our pictures from Christmas Eve mostly since my Christmas pics didn't turn out super great.  Merry Christmas, everyone!

Do you see Carsten completely IN the gift bag?  lol

Day 359 - Birthday Cake

When we were younger, my parents always had us make a birthday cake for Jesus and the youngest kid got to decorate it.  I thought it would be fun to pick up the tradition again.  Here's Carsten with the cake!