12-29-08

Happy New Year! Hope every had a great Christmas! The week started off a little busy...Reagan saw the audiologist on Tuesday but she had fluid in her ears and so off to the pediatrician we went that afternoon to try and get it cleared up. So we will have to see the audiologist again in a few weeks. We also checked on Cake's house while she was in Mexico. Wednesday was haircut day and the other appraisal on the work van bumper. It was also baking for our Christmas Eve dinner. We had Lois and Cleiburn and Kim over for dinner. After dinner the kids opened a few presents from Kim and Grandma and Grandpa and got to play for a bit. Then off to bed for the kids and Kim stayed to watch some of "The Office" while Gwen wrapped presents. It was a late night but Santa snuck into our house after mom and dad went to bed! We have done a little "creative parenting" with Reagan and it helped us Christmas morning. Reagan picked out her very own alarm clock a few months ago, but this alarm clock is not to wake her up, but is a sign of when she can come out of her room in the morning :-) (she gets up way too early so she just plays in her room or whatever until the alarm) So the alarm was set and we all got up at 7am. It seemed to be a "remote control" year. John got plenty of cars, Reagan got plenty of princess stuff and the kids and dad each got a remote control car (dad's was zero gravity and can go on the walls and ceiling). But the funniest thing of the morning was that Gwen and Jim got each other the exact same thing - a small coded safe!! It was pretty funny...great minds think alike???? or we've been married long enough to think alike... :-) The day was spent playing, eating and setting up the trampoline (in the rain) that we got from nana (thanks nana!) Friday was more playing and that night we went to Schnepf Farms with the Thornleys. It was super cold and the wind made it worse. We rode the train a couple of times and the carousel. Unfortunately it was too muddy to feed the reindeer so we had smores and cocoa around the bonfire. Saturday we did misc. and that night Jim went to Jaren's and Gwen watched a girl movie. Sunday was laziness again. We hope everyone is doing well and that you have a fun New Years! Love Jim Gwen Reagan and John