Catch up time!!

Christmas in NC was as wonderful as ever! Starting it off with wreath fun w/ the girls to finish up the week with dinner with Mike & Kim 12/26. I love all the Holiday with family & friends. Amazing how as you get older the gift exchanging is not near as exciting as just 'getting together'!! We made it 6 days before Cooper got the Flu. Sadly Morgan & Emily had spent the night before he woke up with a fever. So poor Morgan got it a couple days later. Spencer & I got on medicine just to prevent. Poor Coop struggled through all the holiday events, but did it like a champ! Oh, Kadi & Ian got engaged the weekend before Christmas!! That is exciting for all of us. They plan to get married 5/4 at our house and she wants me to plan it :)) fun, but distant might hurt some :)) After Christmas, we had Cooper's 6th birthday party at Masterpiece Makers with 11 friends to paint Dinosaurs... Then invited more to the house after for cake & ice cream!! Good times! Brooks spent the night, so that made the day. Todd came back to CO on 27th and me & boys flew back out on 29th. Sad leaving NC for 6 weeks this time!! But we have Disney fun in Jan. so we'll get to see some of our NC family. Guess we'll FaceTime with the rest! But after Daytona we'll be home for a while & will make up for lost time :) Boys did great on the flight both slept about 2 hrs of the 3.5 hour flight. We landed 10:05pm (which felt like 12:05 NC time). Yesterday was Cooper's birthday and he got to pick our day... So after a lazy morning (Coop favorite thing to do) we headed to Toys R Us to spend some birthday $$ then to lunch... Home to play, then out to Diner for dinner. Back to school for us today (12/31) that is what is nice about Homeschool, we pick our Holidays and make up for others when we need to!! Happy New Year's Eve!! Went out for pizza & ice cream, then here at the house with all my boys just like I want to be tonight & through 2012!!
Special prayers for my dear friend Amanda who's father is battling lung cancer in hospital and is not doing well. I feel for her & family. Amanda has gone through so much in her health, I hate to see this happen to her daddy! Prayers of strength & peace for her.