Happy New Year

There are not many New Year's Eve and New Years Day that we don't spend with my family since that is when we celebrate Christmas, but this year we just couldn't make it home.  So we had our own little New Year's Eve celebration.  Piper and I went out that day and got some fun glasses and sparkling grape juice and fun party favors.  The kids had planned shows for us to come to.  Christian did a comedy act and Piper did a magic show.  We watched a Indiana Jones and watched the ball drop at midnight.  The kids were so excited to stay up till midnight! At my house we always had a good luck lunch or dinner on New Years Day and had Ham, cabbage, and black eyed pea, and crepes.  So we had crepes for breakfast, the kids thought they were OK and had Ham and black eyed peas, but I am still not a fan of cabbage.  So we are hoping for a great and happy New Year in 2013.

Richmond-to see Uncle Buck

The day after Christmas we decided to head down to see Brian's Uncle Buck and Aunt Terri.  It had snowed that night and so the kids got to play in the snow a little while we loaded up.  It took us a little longer to get there with the snow and lots of traffic.  We got to see Brian's cousin Kaitlin too.    We went to Petersburg battlefield and going with Uncle Buck, who is a big civil war person, was so fascinating and he knew things that I would never get out of the museum.  He told us all about how the union had built a tunnel in order to take dynamite and blow through their line and how it back fired a little on them.  He knew about every cannon and about how far it would shoot and so many more facts.  It was a lot of fun!  We sent to see Buck's horse and friends and the kids got to feed the horses too.  Brian and Buck got to play their guitars together and just have a little jam session.

Christmas Day

Our Christmas morning started like most as the kids woke us up we opened presents!  Here are all their presents.  Piper got several friend's legos sets, microscope with slides, headphones and stickers to bling them out, a robe and slippers.  Christian got Skylanders, lots of Charlie Brown Dvds, Star Wars toys, a full length mirror, and Charlie Brown toys.  It was a good Christmas.  I think I liked Piper's microscope the best-I had a little too much fun with it too.