Happy New Year everyone! We hope that 2010 treated all of our family and friends well. We had a wonderful holiday season and we hope you did too!Our December started off with of coarse getting the house ready for Christmas. The girls loved decorating and picking out a Christmas Tree this year. They also enjoyed baking this December! They made cookies with Gram, Gingerbread Houses with Mommy, and tried out their new Easy Bake Oven with Daddy!
We had fun doing a lot of festive things including: The Nutcracker which the girls LOVED! Kate refers to herself now as Clara at all times. We also enjoyed seeing Santa again like we always do. Kate was so pumped up to STAND next to Mr. Clause, but....things didn't go as planned...she FREAKED when she saw him up close...so yet again we have a picture of Emma smiling away and Kate crying....oh well, maybe next year!
We also enjoyed Stone Mountain Christmas for the first time! We went with the Barratt Clan down and enjoyed seeing the Christmas Parade, watching Polar Express in 4D, and riding a train to the top of the mountian. It was cold, but we didn't mind!
The best part of the month of coarse was celebrating Christmas with our entire family! We feel so blessed everyone was here! We had a wonderful Christmas Eve, topped off with our very first WHITE ELEPHANT exchange that was a big hit! We had 11 adults in our family room Christmas morning at 7am to watch the girls run down stairs to see what Santa left....it was so special - and we felt so happy to have everyone together. We finished the evening off with Christmas dinner at Mom and Greg's new home...and enjoyed the first snow Atlanta has seen in over 100 years on Christmas Day. It truly was the best. Christmas. ever!
We continue to stay busy and can't believe half of the school year has flown by. Mike has five months of his MBA left and we will be celebrating big in MAY!!!! We are mastering Just Dance 2 and Wii Fit which has been fun in our house!!! Come Visit anytime!!!
Lots of Love,
Mike, Amy, Emma and Kate Barratt
