I’m sticking pretty well to my minutes!  I realized I’d better update before I loose track…
12/24: 45 minutes jogging
12/25: 75 minutes cycling (what a wonderful Christmas present – warm, sunny weather!)
12/26: 45 minutes jogging
1180/1500
Okay, so I have to average 64 minutes of exercise each day for the next five days.  Normally not a problem, but [...]

So, we got home from Galax Christmas evening and I made a really scrumptious lasagna (the secret is to use half ground beef and half hot sausage in the meat sauce portion), and then I had planned to bake a traditional birthday cake as a way to help explain to the kids that Christmas is [...]

After our Christmas morning at home, we headed over to Grandmommy and Pop-Pop’s house. A wonderful time was had by all, of course! They always have out lots of yummies to snack on, and the room was overflowing with presents. One of Killy’s two favorite presents was his basketball and basketball goal! [...]

Probably what I have been happiest about this Christmas is getting to do an actual Christmas morning at my own house on Christmas day.  For the past six years, we’ve done a little Christmas in Kansas City before we left to go to Virginia for the holidays.  But not this year!  The night before, Santa [...]

We just had a wonderful Christmas! The first of our Christmas celebrations was with my side of the family, and it was all great – except that my uncle and aunt couldn’t make it because she’s sick from chemo treatments. We talked to them on the phone and they might be able to [...]

Happy Holidays, from the Woods.

(How funny is that?  I made it on Vista Print a couple weeks ago, I would never send it out as our official card but it did turn out quite cute!)
I’m so excited!  Its officially Christmas Eve now, even though its only 12:15 in the morning and everyone else is asleep… I wrapped all our [...]