Well Christmas and the New Year has officially come to a close at our house. Yes we are one of those people who leaves the lights lit until the Epiphany and with it only 3 days away, I actually took down the tree. I had it lit up all day and felt kind of bad when I was taking it apart. OK, I know that this sounds a little strange, but I was stripping it of all the presents, ornaments, and lights and knowing that it gets tossed outside in the garden to decompose it did make me a little sad. But when William took the tree out of the living room and put it on the front porch, the living room was so clean and open without the tree it didn’t take me too long to get over the feeling bad for the tree thing. And now that the tree is gone, the dogs can see inside again and when the kids saw their sad faces, well we had company 🙂
Here are more pictures taken this weekend
Out for supper with the kids
Kelcie having to go back to New York today. Hopefully she’s going to have better traveling on her return flight! 
Daryl bought another bed and to say that the dogs are loving them is an understatement! 
We even caught the dogs actually sharing their beds with the cats
AND guess who is the most awesome card players in the house??