We celebrated the new year much like we celebrated the rest of the Christmas break - quietly at home. Linfield gives us the week between Christmas and New Years off so I have been home all week with the boys just playing and having some "Mommy days", as Carson calls them. Yesterday Scott took off in the afternoon and we did some errands in Salem which resulted in Nolan falling asleep on the way home (and going straight to bed) and Carson being asleep by 8pm. So Scott and I spent a romantic night of typing away on our respective laptops trying to weed through some work email we had both fallen behind on.... yep, serious partiers here. But we did flip over to watch the ball drop at midnight!
Happy 2010 everyone! May the new year bring endless blessing to you all.

Well this isn't how we expected to end the day!
5" so far... and still coming down.

As I write the boys are sleeping in their bunk beds for the first time! We expected some protest - from Nolan since it was his first time out of a crib and from Carson because he had to share his room, but what we got was an hour of laughing, growling and giggling boys who apparently thought it was the best thing ever. Sort of made us feel like we just walked into something they'd been plotting for a while, but wanted us to think it was our idea... hhhmmm....Nah.

Yesterday was our final Christmas celebration with (delayed) "Christmas" dinner at Great-Grandma Henson's house. Carson was so excited about the new wheelbarrow she got him that we had to go do a few laps around the church next door to try it out. We ended the night by driving out to the Newton Lights house near Amity, OR. It's an amazing lights display set to music and you can park across the road and watch the show with your radio set to the station he broadcasts the music on. Carson loves it (we went out Christmas night as well) and we might try to sneak out again before it wraps up New Years Eve.

Awwwww.... how nice of Santa to send messages to both Carson & Nolan.

Carson LOVES singing Christmas carols... I love the part where he tries to make the words into something he understands. Heard in our house this weekend (while "Santa Claus is Coming to Town" was playing on the radio):