Long time, no blog.

Its been brought to our attention (a few times) that we have been remiss in our blogging of late. Its true, we haven't done so much as a "Merry Christmas" or a "Happy New Year." And we didn't even comment on the aging out of the 20s that J did recently. We're sorry about all of that. But not really too sorry, because we've been enjoying our down time! But we'll try our best to make up for the lackluster blog now. So, lets go back to December; we had a lovely, quiet Christmas holiday. We made cookies, ate lasagna and relished our new gifts. Santa was good to us this year (we must have been good), he brought us a doll house, a toy piano and a waffle iron. All of our loved ones were very good to us as well, we truly were spoiled. We got a lot of games and puzzles to enjoy more family time, and several books, which we always love. We also had our first tastes of mulled wine and its pretty safe to say that J is a big fan, he thinks everyone should make a batch next holiday season. Especially if you want him to come knocking on your door.

We had a very quiet New Year's Eve, we barely managed to stay up to ring it in! We must have made quite a site, J reading and T embroidering; at about 10:30p J suggested we go to bed and T had to remind him that the ball wouldn't drop for another hour and a half...what a wild way to spend the last NYE of our 20s!

And speaking of embroidery, T has rediscovered the joy of this craft. Its become a major hobby for her, and hopefully more soon...we'll just let you marinate in that for a bit. Not quite ready to share or unveil all of that yet. Although this does seem like a good point to mention that we bought a used sewing machine with some of our Christmas loot, its still in the box but hoping that changes this week. As usual, so much we want to do and time just seems to keep slippin' away.

The kids are back in gymnastics, after

taking November and December off,

and they are both doing absolutely fantastic. Its good to see Miss Kelsey again and we think the time away made them both realize how much they actually want to

be doing it, so they listen better and try harder. We're starting to think about where we should send B for preschool in the fall. T and a friend (Miss Melissa) recently started co-op

play dating twice a week, so the four kids get to play for half a day and Melissa and T take turns watching/playing with them so that they each get a couple hours to themselves. T uses her time to take a hatha yoga class and occasionally have lunch with J. They are considering

adding a third day, which T would use to do homework and other projects.

A couple of weeks ago we celebrated J turning 30, with a nice lunch and

fancy cupcakes as a family. Later we had Miss Kelsey come over to babysit and we went out for Thai food and we had planned to see Black Swan, but C had other plans for us. For the first time ever, we had to end a date early to come home to a crying baby...um toddler. Turns out he was just playing us to see how late he could stay up at night, but it took us until the third night to figure that out. He owes us $21.

T is back in school, after six weeks off between semesters. She's taking a portraiture and a creative writing course and

is very excited about both. We're all working on time management and being more organized, as part of our resolutions (of course). We're also starting to run, with the goal of celebrating turning 30 with a half marathon sometime this year. All in all we're starting the year feeling very strong and positive and excited about where 2011 will take us.