And it's over for another year!

The decorations are even put back in the shed! Well other than the lights outside of the house - they're not taking up space in my living room, so they shall remain up another few days.

Christmas breakfast ended up being the least amount of drama possible for that crew of people. It wasn't entirely horrid so that was something.

We ended up going to the Christmas Eve service at the church - a nice small little celebration of Christ's birth. We then came home and ate junk food for dinner, took the dog on a walk all together as a family, and watched Horton Hears a Who. (After trying to watch Fred Clause and realizing the disc was cracked! UGH!)

Christmas morning was rainy and cold. We all had colds on top of that too! But we opened our presents and had cinammon rolls and hung around doing not much all day. Two sisters came over that evening and we played Rock Band. Our Christmas was low key and relaxing - just the way we like it!

We took the kids to see Bedtime Stories the day after Christmas, and the day after that we did our regularly scheduled trip to the library.

Sunday we took dd for one of her presents - a trip to go horse back riding. A trip I am content to never repeat. She has a love of horses - I do not. I'm not a huge animal lover - maybe it's just that animals don't really love me. Hmmm! Anyway, it was quite an experience and I'm glad it's over. ;-)

DS gets his last present this Saturday - a 1/2 hour on the ground flight lesson and a half hour in the air flight lesson. I think it finally hit him yesterday exactly what it entailed because he asked me if he was actually going up in the air - um YEA, that's the point. LOL! Should be fun - less stressful than the horseback riding I'm thinking!

Tomorrow is the last day of 2009. I can't believe it.

What happened in 2008 - I didn't lose any of the weight I wanted to lose - oh well, there's always next year. (In fact, I'm hoping I manage this year because I've loosely told myself I'd get the tattoo I want should I manage to make my goal!) We did get the dog I'd been promising the kids forever - so that's one thing checked off my list. I quit my job - something I was contemplating at the beginning of 2008, had decided wouldn't happen by about spring, and then actually did this fall. I was able to go to Africa - something I would have never thought would happen in my lifetime. I want to go someplace else international in 2009 - no prospects on the horizon though so we'll just have to wait and see what God puts in my path. The kids grew (several inches and then some!), things are starting to kind of "relax" around here, my kitchen is organized (woooohooooo!).

That's about all I can remember of 2008. I'm excited to see what 2009 has in store for us. DS is going to go spend the night at his friends again for the New Year - he did that last year and we took DD to the movies to see Ella Enchanted. Not sure what we'll do this year. We don't have any plans.

1 more day until the new year, 6 more days until the kids return to school!