It's a new year

Its a brand new year and Alison started it off right yesterday. The past few days she's been practicing standing on her own and yesterday, she walked! Only a few very unsure steps, but they were steps!
We had Christmas part 2, "drama-free" on Dec. 30th at my inlaws and it was much more fun. Mindy and Dan opened their presents and we all went out back and played football. I think that Dan has sold me on the idea of playing on their team in the spring. Sue made lasagna for dinner and the girls LOVED it!!
New years eve was nice as well. Carl and I stayed in with the girls, grilled shrimp and scallops for dinner and watched Pirates 2! We ate chocolate cake and drank the raspberry dessert wine and it was wonderful :) Spending time with the fam is one of my favorite things to do.
We are working on planning for the summer and we seem to have a lot on our plate. We have decided against joining the pool due to the amount of travelling that we plan on. We're going to spend a week in southport nc, spend a couple of days in beafort, nc with Wen and visit Cirucci's beach house too :) We also need to do a bit of work to our house, painting mostly, and of course, we need to check out plenty of O's games. The new plan is to get the girls a little childrens pool for the backyard and a water table for them to play with outside.