Merry Christmas & Happy New Year

We spent christmas at our house with our family (Jeni, Shawn, Brianna, Macy, Krissy, Mike, Mom & Dad Weiland, Mom & Steve, my dad and us). Some of them came for breakfast and spent the day with us. Others came later for dinner. Joe and Steve deep fried a turkey and cooked a prime rib with all the fixings. It was good food with good people. It was a pretty quiet and laid back day. Maddie made out again. Although she just had a big bash for her birthday two weeks prior, she still got quite a few things.

Maddie helped me decorated the christmas tree. She just really took the ornaments off as I put them on and tangled up the garland, but it was fun watching her with all the lights and shiney ornaments.

She got a christmas dress from her Aunt Melissa. She had it one for about a hour before she got pissed because she couldn't crawl in it. At Christmas she had been crawling over to things to pull her self up when she would fall down when she was walking. Since the new year she has been able to get back up without using something to help her stand back up.

We saw Jeff, Amy and Abbey over the weekend and exchanged gifts with the girls. Maddie kept trying to kiss and hug Abbey. Maddie loves Abbey. She runs around the house saying Abbey, Abbey, Abbey.

For New Years, we stayed home. The Schrocks came over and had dinner with us and brought their family receipt for homemade taffy. It was fun to make but it needed to be cooked a little bit longer. It was too soft when they went to pull it as you can tell by their sticky fingers. But the girls loved licking their fingers clean. We stayed up until 12:05. Enough time to see the ball drop in time square and shut all the lights off and go to bed. Maddie was in bed by 9pm. She didn't get to stay up to ring in the new year.

She must be going through a growing spurt, because she has been really sleeply lately. We spent the first day of the new year laying around the house. We even all took a nap for three hours. For all of us that was a long time and very unusal. Let me tell you. It was the best day ever. I have not had a nap like that since before Maddie was born. Even then I don't think I got a 3 hour nap.

Joe and I made bets. Not new years resolutions, because those never work. We bet ourselves and each other that we couldn't workout everyday for one-year straight. The rules are: You have to "workout" or do something active other than work everyday. A minimum workout has to equal something equalivalant to 100. Such as 25 push ups and 75 sit ups. Or 100 sit ups. Easy right? Of coarse it is easy, that way we can accomplish our bets. I am not sure what we are actually betting for. We will decide that later, however, we don't think the other one can do it. We think that each other is going to be too tired one night to workout.

We started off the first night strong. We will see how it goes. I know we can do it. It is all about will power and the motivation to get going everyday.