Winter Joy...or not.

I'm not to crazy about the Winter months. Those who know me will know this little fact. I am trying to have a better attitude this year...not sure it's working. Here are a few reasons why.

Why Winter sucks:

1. Cold...I hate being cold.
2. Dark....I need Sunshine or I get depressed.
3. Driving in snow...lame.
4. Spending too much time indoors makes me stir crazy.
5. I miss happy gardening days and falling into bed exhausted.
6. I'm not really into winter sports.
7. I want to eat anything and everything with carbs in it. Or chocolate. Or sugar.
8. Treadmills are boring...I'd much rather run outdoors. (See #1)
9. Illnesses. Enough said.
10. Hyper active kids that can't go outside and play.
11. Everyone's Facebook pictures of their tropical vacations.

Why I like Winter:

1. I sleep better when it's cold
2. Have an excuse to shop...there's nothing else to do.
3. It makes me want to bake goodies.
4. Organizing my house
5. Having movie nights with my nieces
6. Dance class

That's all the happy thoughts I could muster. Let's hope the groundhog has some good news this year.

Crazy and Wonderful December

I had a fantastic Christmas Season this year. Although it went all to fast. We spent Christmas Eve at the Brumbaughs in Morgan for the annual Fotheringham Christmas Party. It's always a great time. This year we did a photo booth with props and all kinds of crazy poses. We may have to delete a few of them...ha ha. We got a little goofy. Debra put together her slide show of pictures from 2012. It was fabulous as usual! We also had a gift exchange, the kids played in the snow, and we ate lots of good food. It wasn't very fun driving home that night, after it had snowed all day. We got behind a snowplow all the way down I-215. Derek was quite frustrated.

We all enjoyed our Christmas day. We tried to scale down the amount of presents for the kids this year. We went a little nuts last year. The think Santa did a good job this year. Will's favorite toys were his light sabor and Boba Fet gun. Evie loved her Brave dressups and bow and arrow set.

Christmas morning is the best!!

Evie was happy about the shawl from Grandma and Grandpa.

 Does Will look excited or what? So does Derek.

I think Derek kind of liked the knife I got him :)