How We Spent the Holidays

Whew!!!!! The holidays have passed. Not much snow in Michigan this year, which is exactly how one of us likes it (he's the one who cleans it all off the driveway). This was Jack's "4 year old" Christmas. 4 year old Christmases are the best. It's the first year they understand the concept of Santa bringing presents, and they embrace the magic.

Right after Christmas, we flew to Dallas to visit Jay's brother and his family. Together, we have 8 kids, and they love hanging out together. We sure wish they were closer. Take a look at a few photos from the holidays...

The kids all camped out in one room the night before Christmas

Maggie reads the back of the photo left by Santa.

Jack waits patiently to open his presents

We stayed up until 1:30 Christmas night playing dominos with family and friends.

Annual New Year's Picture (click it to see actual size)

TEXAS TRIP

Just hanging out, playing Gameboy.

In Dallas, it's warm enough to play baseball during the holidays. Jack gets ready for the pitch.

We took the kids on a scavenger hunt one day. Here are all eight of them, trying to figure out where the next clue may be.

After the scavenger hunt. The prize??? Candy. Lauren, Molly, Jack and Maggie enjoying the spoils of victory.

Spending the afternoon at the local YMCA pool.

Our last night in Texas.