Christmas time is......over!

Well Christmas has come and gone.  I always love preparing for the day but come the 26th and everything has got to go!  We woke up this morning and carefully wrapped all of the ornaments, took the lights off of the tree and chucked it out that back door (we will be burning it tomorrow)!  We also took down all of the stockings and other Christmas decorations.   I then proceeded to clean house top to bottom!  There's nothing better than clean floors to walk on and clean sheets to sleep in!  I also did 6 loads of laundry (which is nothing out of the ordinary around here), and still have the diapers to do!

Yesterday was fun, the anticipation built up a bit too much for Evelyn this year and she lost it a few times, but what four year old doesn't?  We have decided that next year we won't be putting out ANY presents until Christmas Eve!  I didn't take many pictures because we decided to record the whole thing instead, so now I get to go through the forty-five minute video and crop pictures out of it....yay.

For Christmas I gave Matthew a wedding ring, finally!  We got married in 2007 and he has been wearing a stainless steel ring on his finger ever since!  At one point right after we were married we bought matching rings, but had to return them because we couldn't pay the bills at the time!  He has been wanting one ever since!  With the help of several family members I was able to get enough gold to trade in to get Matthew a ring, and I couldn't wait to give it to him!  Thank you so much to those of you who contributed to the ring!

All-in-all, it was a very Merry Christmas!