The beginning of January always begins with the traditional "burning of the Christmas Greens!". This year Tristan got to help Papa and he really enjoyed the roar of the flames and watching the tree get smaller and smaller.

Isn't she lovely, isn't she beautiful???? In January we celebrated Sofia's 3rd Birthday! She had a princess birthday and she and all her little princess friends enjoyed a wonderful tea party complete with a cake that Uncle Cody and Auntie Anna made. They enjoyed little heart shaped tea sandwiches, scones, fruit and of course the ultimate, a pedicure!!There were 3 pedicure stations set up and Sofia tried each one out! I think she truly is a PRINCESS!

Here is Sofia looking over the edge of her beautiful table waiting for her guests to arrive!

Can you believe that Cody and Anna made this beautiful teapot cake with cream and sugar. Everyone enjoyed eating it especially Sofia who ate the white chocolate spout and Tristan who ate the handle! Thanks SO MUCH Uncle Cody and Auntie Anna!

In February April and Chris hosted Cyndy's birthday dinner. The table was just beautiful and we enjoyed a wonderful dinner of Lasagne, enjoying being together and playing with Reid and Lillie. We had the privilege of babysitting Reid on the Thursday before Valentines Day so his Mommy and Daddy could enjoy a date out together. We all had fun playing!

I can't believe it is almost March and my last post was all about Christmas. One thing is for certain, our weather is still as crazy as ever. Last Monday we woke up to everything covered in snow and the sun was shinning! What do they say about March coming in like a lion, well, we may have a whole herd here in the beautiful Northwest!!

This coming weekend we are hosting a Cocktail party in Celebration of Melissa's 30th Birthday! I will post pictures next week. Until then, beware the ide's of March!

Our Christmas celebrations!

Like most families, we work around the schedules of our children so they can also enjoy Christmas with their in-laws. We had the JOY of two Christmases, one on Christmas Day and the other on New Year's Day. Fun was had by all at each celebration.

Christmas Day included enjoying watching Tristan and Sofia discover that Santa had brought Tristan a shiny new bike and Sofia a beautiful doll house! Melissa gave her gifts to the kids on Christmas Day too, then April, Chris and Lillie joined us for a day of playing with the kids, having a fondue dinner and playing Apples to Apples. If you didn't recieve this game for Christmas, you should consider purchasing it, very fun!

Of course during all of our celebrating it snowed and snowed and snowed!

New Year's Day found us all celebrating together along with Great Grandma and Grandpa McGuire. We had a wonderful day opening our stockings, eating a belgian waffle breakfast, opening gifts, cooking a crown pork dinner and staying up until 2:00 AM just enjoying each other's company, AND WATCHING IT SNOW YET AGAIN. I have created a Christmas slide show on the right side of our blog. If you want to read the captions just click on any picture.

We are sure that you all enjoyed making memories with your families too and we look forward to a New Year filled with all kinds of JOY!!