Happy New Year

True to form, Kristin and I wanted to get this post up on New Year's Day, and here we are a day later. Kristin managed to squeeze out some time yesterday to edit and post all of the photos, but then I was going to do a little write up.  Twenty four hours later, I am actually able to start typing.

Needless to say, we've had a lot going on lately, and we are always trying to enjoy the moment without getting too caught up with what's coming next (not always easy, at least for me).  The holidays were a lot of fun.  As you can tell, we were able to get some Christmas prep done with my parents visiting, had a great early birthday party for Stella-Mella, and had lots of fun on the holidays themselves with the ample time off from school.

Our New Year's resolutions are still in flux, but they do involve slowing down a bit, focusing on simpler things, and generally just trying to calm down after our whirlwind year of 2014.  That said, we had a blast last year so there are certainly worse things in the world than having another jam-packed year. A corollary to our resolutions involves getting more posts up to our now-joint blog -- so let's see what we can do with that one.

Happy 2015 to everyone!

And here are some overdue photos from 2014:

In search of our Christmas tree.

Watching the farm animals.

Stella's first Christmas Tree Farm visit.

Grandpa and Grandma join the festivities.

Iver heading over to the resident ATV.

Visiting the zoo on Christmas Eve.

Our Christmas morning stroll.

                                      

New bikes -- with gears!

Racing around the track.

Relaxing in the stroller.

Mud and puddles.

Taking the corners.

Our delicious Christmas feast.

A beach visit for rocking throwing...

and eating...

and goofing around.