Happy New Year

Happy New Year Everyone! I hope everyone had a good holiday we sure did, Emily and Ashley where so excited about Santa Clause this year. Santa was really nice to them this year, both the girls got what they wanted from Santa Emily got her American Doll named Julie and Ashley got her Leap frog Tag Pen plus many more. Allison really didn't understand much but she had fun opening her gifts too.

Christmas Eve we stayed home and had Kelly and Lorrin and the kids and Mike & Vicki, Travis had to work this year for both Christmas Eve and Christmas but he was able to stop by and hang out for a few minutes here and there. Christmas was pretty low key we opened presents in the morning and then Mike & Vicki came over later to hang out and then the girls and I went to my Mom's for dinner that night.

So pretty low key which was nice because right before Christmas more like the week after Thanksgiving we had a pipe in the wall break and leaked water all over the family room. It was horrible it messed up part of our brand new hard wood floor water had gone under the floor so Travis had to tear out part of the wall in the family room it just happened to be the pipe that lead to the second floor bathroom and then had to tear up part of the floor and then had to tear out a part of our upstairs bathroom which we just got done redoing. Travis had to fix the part of the pipe under the house which took about 3 days total the poor guys was having the worst time with the plumbing it almost got the best of him until a friend of our told us about this wonderful new plastic pipe which finally worked. It was horrible the house was a mess, we had no water for several days and let me tell you, you don't realize how much water we use on a daily basis until you don't have it. Finally a week before Christmas the house was finally back in order so it was nice to have a quite holiday.

The kids are doing well we were able to make it through Christmas with out being sick since everyone around us had that terrible cold, but Christmas night I started to feel like I was getting a cold the next day the kids and I all had the cold. So we are still trying to get over this cold that everyone has Travis is the only one who is healthy so far. Both the older girls can't wait to go back to school and neither can I feel like I am walking around picking up toys all day long, but Allison is loving that her sisters are home all day she loves to play with them. Since she started to crawl that's all she does it chase them or the dogs through the house.