2011 you went by so fast!  I can't believe there only a few days left.  This day last year I found out I was pregnant with Ethan.  Now he is almost 4 months old!

And I can't believe how fast December flew by too.  I wish I could say it was uneventful, but it wasn't.  We are all still recovering from the stomach bug and also bad head colds that made their rounds throughout the family (thankfully Ethan didn't get the stomach bug since he has a vaccine for it though!).  Ethan has has a particular difficult time with this cold though and is recovering from his first ear infection, poor kid!  So Pj's two week break has pretty much been spent either taking care of the kids while I was sick or being taken care of while he was sick.  Oh well!  Atleast he could be sick at home:-)

Despite the sickness, we have had a really good time together.  Trey has really enjoyed Pj getting him out of bed each morning.  We got him a little train and train track for Christmas that is remote controlled and he LOVES it.  Every morning he wakes up and asks for his choo choo train.  He also loves playing with his Mr. Potato Head... it was a hit!  Ethan is still my happy chubby baby.  He is making all sorts of sounds now and even while he was sick, he never failed to give us smiles:-)  So sweet!

We spent Christmas Eve with my family and went to their candlit service at their church, which was alot of fun.  Trey sat with his Aunt Sarah the whole time and was the perfect child.  He shocked us!  Later that evening Pj and I attemtped to have a nice evening with wine, cheese, crackers, opening our gifts to each other and watching "It's A Wonderful Life".  We got as far are the presents, but then spent the rest of the night taking turns with the sick kids who kept waking up crying.  LOL!  It was a memorable night... let's leave it at that!  But thankfully everyone slept in the next morning and we didn't start opening presents till 9:30ish.  Trey knew exactly what to do this year... even attempted to open Ethan's gifts too;-)  He had alot of fun!  Later on in the afternoon we went over to spent Christmas Day with Pj's side of the family and a Christmas brunch.  It was just a really fun, laid back Christmas... lots of good memories!

Unfortunately we we're able to go to the beach house this week because of Ethan's cold and ear infection... just didn't want to be that far away from the doctor with him being so young.  Kind of sad... its the first year we didn't go down for the New Year since we got married... it'll be weird being around here for New Year's Eve.

Pj and I have gotten alot projects completed while he's been home on break.  We did alot of painting in areas of the house that needed it most... looks alot better in here!  I reorganized our closet and bought some bins to help keep my clothes from falling over constantly.  I organized the bins in our living room too with Trey and Ethan's toys.  Threw alot out.  Actually counted my shoes and am embarrassed to say how many I have... its amazing how things accumulate.  I am actually looking forward to Monday so I can put all the Christmas decorations away and get things cleaned up in here.  Christmas decorations are only nice before and during Christmas... afterwards they are just a pain to have around I feel like!

Here are some pics... that's pretty much all in terms of updates on us!