Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!!

We had a pretty good present turn out this year, even though the girls didn't really get what they wanted. Again, I failed though. I make it a goal every year to focus more on why we celebrate Christmas in the first place and try to get the kids to think more about our Savior, and not Santa....but it never fails, commercialization wins. Maybe next year. :(
For New Years, we were complete party poopers, haha. We spent the day at Ryan's moms house and chillaxed with family. That's actually what I look foward to most though, so I guess I can't call us poopers. As far as anything exciting though...Ryan was asleep by 10:30 and the kids and I followed a little after that. I did force everyone to write down 5 goals each that they want to work on for the new year, then we shared them with each other at dinner on New Years Day. I think we will make that a tradition. Some of the goals shared were (no particular name or order),
Learn to swim
Have better handwriting
Family prayer and scripture study
A fun activity weekly with the family
Get better at Soccer/basketball
Eat better portion sizes
Be nice to each other
Be better at math
Be Dad's buddy
Not be so shy
Go to the temple monthly
Get lots more toy cars

Those were just a few. Then, on New Years Eve 2012, we will look through our goals and see if we were able to accomplish any of them. I'm excited to see what will happen. Here are just a few pictures of Christmas morning. I was sad that I didn't get more, but everything just happens so fast.