Happy New Year!

 The month started with my choir concert-- I was so exhausted by the time we were done with three performances, but it was so much fun to sing Christmas music in a great choir with the orchestra.  We also had Maureen McGovern as our guest soloist-- and she is fabulous.  Mom and Dad drove up to see the Friday night performance.  It was so fun to have them there.  This is the picture of the stage after we got done putting out the poinsettias.  It was so pretty and festive. 

 LL had a birthday party the next week (just two weeks after her birthday).  We had a hot cocoa bar and the girls made themselves sick with hot chocolate and "flavors".  I was ready to go to a real bar after all that was done-- I needed something to take the edge off....

 The next week, we had the Olsen family party and had lots of fun. 

 Christmas morning, SHO got his John Deere tractors, the girls each got a new doll and LO got more GEO trax train set stuff.  It was a great Christmas.

Here I stuck in a picture of LO and his gingerbread house.  My skills are severely lacking when it comes to making gingerbread houses--- maybe next year I will do better.  The important thing was they all had fun!

 Next, we celebrated SHO's 2nd b-day.  He had ice cream with lots and lots of sprinkles and he got a new ball and a blanket.  He was very happy. 

 And to end the festivities, we celebrated New Years at Rich's sister's house.  We did some dancing to bring in the new year. 

I think they need to go on America's Got Talent, right?