Okoboji Winter Bdays '09

Well, my family made the trek to Bridges Bay in Okoboji last weekend to celebrate our 4 December bdays! (Lucas, Eric, Dad, & Owen) It was a great time by all, and the water felt great. The boys ABSOLUTELY loved it even more this year...so much more fun as Alic is more independent and loves playing with his cousin Emily, and Eric now will go down the slide since his cousin Lucas did too. It is really something we all look forward to doing now every year.... thanks to Mom and her careful saving for it! :) We have a week and 2 days left of school until break. We will finish the semester before Xmas, so the craziness of the week has began. I move into my house a week from today!!! Well...I'll move a few things next Monday night before Eric's Xmas concert, then then next night, but then the majority Wednesday morning. We are all REALLY excited to get in!!!!! We won't quite be settled by xmas, but what a blessing it will be to have our HOME to go back to now!! I got a new table, washer and dryer, clock, paintings, rugs...and will have to live there a bit to see what else I may need!!! Visitors will be the next thing!!! One more quick day of christmas shopping for me and I will call it good. Haven't had too many goodies yet, so not feeling very guilty...it will come, I'm sure! We will hit Salazar's xmas eve, my family xmas morn, and Kelly's xmas night. YIKES!!!! I'm tired already! My xmas letters are going in the mail tomorrow... nothing exciting, just a quick update~have a great last week before xmas all!!!