Rest, Relaxation, and a New Year!

We didn't have anything scheduled after Christmas as far as traveling anywhere, and that actually turned out to be a good thing. We got to rest, relax and get over the colds/sickness that we've been fighting for the past two months!

Just in time to start the next round of sickness after school starts again. Ha. Ugh.

 We did buy a little trampoline for indoors so that Britton and Clara have something to jump on when they get the urge (other than on my furniture!!!) It may be the best or the stupidest thing we've done...time will tell. ;) So far it's been nice. If Britton is being crazy, I tell him to jump on the trampoline for a few minutes and it wears him down (a little).

 Thanks to aunt Janille, the girls have matching Princess Sophia nightgowns and Elsa nightgowns...Clara is insistent right now that they match every night. Ella is a good sport, so far, with all of it. ☺

Photobomb by a naked Aidan. 

 Cary and I went for a drive with Clara on a gloomy day while the other kids were at Petra.

Clara needs to be potty trained, and she comes in my room in the early morning and wants a clean diaper on, so she'll bring in a dry diaper and some wipes and then takes off her full diaper. One morning she came in while I was sleeping and said, "Come on mom, change my diaper, it'll be fun!"

Right...☺

 We're predictable, but we had our New Years Eve party with some food and games. Clara had put herself to bed long before so Cary stayed home with her. I didn't get very many pictures of the kids playing games because I was helping with the food prep and then looking for a lost kitty (that wasn't ours for a change!) and then we had a stray cat show up on our doorstep.