A post...finally!

I know I have been an absent blogger over the past month or two. The holidays, family in town, and lots of sickness (for me not the kids) caused me to not write. And it is easy get out of the habit once this starts. Well, today I received something so cool in the mail. I bought a Groupon a few months ago to a website that turns your blog into a book. I finally used it at the end of last month and the finished product arrived today. It was so fun to have all my entries (well from 2008 at least) in a book. Seeing the book motivated me to get back to blogging more. So I am not going to say I will blog daily, but I do plan to blog at least once a week. So many memories will be forgotten if I don't take the time to do so. Over the next few posts, I will catch up on the things I should have been writing about! Here are a few pictures from the weekend after Thanksgiving when we always put up our Christmas tree. The kids helped for the first time and loved looking at all the ornaments.