It's almost 2007

Hello and Happy New Year everyone. It is 9:38 p.m. on New Year's Eve and Adam and I are sitting here at home watching the Discovery Channel. What we are watching is actually rather interesting. It is about Mount Everest and people attempting to climb it. I guess we are getting too old to go out and whoop it up on New Year's Eve. We had a busy weekend and are both tired. We will be asleep when the new year rolls around. We left on Friday morning and went to Carroll to have Christmas with the Sullivan side of the family. The kids got to open their gifts that night so they were pretty happy about that. On Saturday morning Adam and I took Maddie and Carter shoe shopping. They both needed new shoes. Maddie had a tear in her old shoes and her socks kept getting wet and her feet getting cold. She really plays hard during recess on the blacktop at school and she is hard on her shoes. They usually only last half of the school year before we need to replace them. Carter just outgrew his shoes. It worked out perfect because Kinnick fits into Carter's old shoes. When we got back to Grandpa Sullivan's house Carter was very cranky (he stayed up until 1 a.m. the night before). He did not want to take a nap but needed one badly. He finally fell asleep on my lap so I just left him there. I did not want to try to move him and end up waking him. I watched the Hawkeyes play basketball and ended up falling asleep myself. While we were napping Adam and Kinnick went to visit Grandpa Adkins. They spent some time hanging out over there and I think that Grandpa really enjoyed watching Kinnick run and run and run some more. Maddie went to see Charlotte's Web at the movie theatre with Aunt JoJo, Kate and Logan. When everyone got back to Grandpa's house we watched the Alamo Bowl. We all know that the wrong team won that game! This morning we got up and came home. The drive back was CRAPPY. The weather is not nice here today. We got back home just in time to unload our stuff and head into Whittemore for another Christmas gathering. This was the Simonson Christmas with my aunts, uncles, cousins, etc....We did not stay very long because our road was bad on the way into town. The visibility was not the best either. We had an early supper, gave the kids a bath, and got them off to bed. Maddie is spending the night in Whittemore with her cousins. I think Adam and I are on our way to bed now too. We are tired!!!!! Love, Stephanie