Happy New Year!

How is it possible that we are already well into January, 2011? Where does the time go?

Generally I would say that time flies, but around the holidays, between Thanksgiving and New Year's Day, I feel like time moves at an especially fast clip! And this year, I feel like we've been in an absolute time warp!

We've had lots of excitement over the past couple of months, so here's the scoop.... we bought a new house, and moved into it the week before Christmas, then spent the next couple of weeks trying to sort, organize, and make our new house truly a home. We started on this journey in September, when we were taking a detour home from the boys' soccer games and found a house that we felt was really our dream home, a place we could live and raise our family for years and years to come. It was already under construction, with the kitchen cabinets in place, and we just couldn't believe how many of the features were just what we had been looking for (but couldn't find) when we moved to town almost four years ago. Thus began the adventure of buying and finishing a house that turned out to be less than a mile from our old house. We were able to choose many of the finishing details like paint colors, light fixtures, and hardware to make the house truly our own. We have loved having a larger kitchen for cooking and entertaining, and the boys are enjoying the large, flat yard, making snow forts, having snow ball fights, and creating snow angels during the cold winter days. It will be great for baseball and soccer games in the spring, and football games in the fall. We are just delighted and have settled in to the new house pretty quickly.

Of course, during all this transition, we celebrated Christmas and had a wonderful opportunities to spend time together while the boys were out of school and Marc was off from work. We played games, went to the movies, took the kids skiing, and enjoyed reading together and just having fun. The boys are both so full of energy and imagination, there is always something entertaining going on!

Here are a few photos from our Christmas season -- may the New Year bring blessings to you and yours!

The boys at the Holiday Open House at Winding Trails

Peanut at his first skiing lesson

Bugaboo getting ready to ski

Peanut on Christmas morning, his first peek at what Santa delivered

Bugaboo.... the joy of opening a gift -- he loves surprises!

home.... in the snow

New England winters, and a blast from daddy's snowblower! BRRRRRRRR!