There's No Place Like Roam

I'm a believer in New Year's Resolutions if for nothing more than to spend a few minutes thinking about what you want to accomplish in the next year. So, I'm going to add our plans for the next year and in December 2009 we can look back and see what we have, or haven't accomplished. Kay: Make significant progress towards a teaching certificate. Repaint the interior of our house. Pick some sort of exercise that I can regularly accomplish. Jason: Keep working on the Buick and take "her" to a few car shows. Carter: Carter wants to finish Kindergarten, learn to play baseball, win a trophy in the Woodstock 5K, learn to draw, and go to Stone Mountain. Hunter: Wants to go to pre-school, learn to write, play T-ball and go to Stone Mountain. Graham: Graham has a big list this year. He wants to eat solid food, say his first words, roll over, sit up, stand up, crawl and walk! I'm sure he will accomplish more than the rest of us!

We had a wonderful Christmas this year. We went to Grandma Jackie and Grandpa Jims' House on Christmas Eve. Sherry, The McKinney's, and The Ramsey's came over on Christmas Day and we went to Granny Ramseys on the following Saturday. We even met up with the Hammonds family a few weeks before. The boys received WAY too much stuff, as usual. Hunter doesn't think so. He even gave me the business for not buying him a happy meal (for the toy) when I picked up hamburgers yesterday. Can you say SPOILED??? Here are some pics....

This was our second year building gingerbread houses with the boys. Last year we bought the kits and they enjoyed sticking a few candies in the frosting before losing interest. This year, since I'm on maternity leave, I decided to take it a step further and bake the gingerbread, make the frosting and invite a few of the boys' friends over for a little party. Well, of course, it didn't go as planned. The gingerbread simply wouldn't roll out, and refused to be cut into the proper shapes. I was cursing Martha Stewart and her perfect recipe, when I realized the dough had to be pretty much frozen to work. Since it was 10PM at this time, I gave up and decided to buy the kits in the morning for all the kids. After returning from the store and beginning to assemble the four kits, I read that the frosting was supposed to dry for 2-3 hours before decorating. Well, this didn't happen since I finished assembling 5 minutes before the guests arrived. Luckily, no houses were demol