.for old times sake.

So long 2011, you are now another year past and gone.  We rang in 2012 by retiring early for two main reasons: 1-Roy goes to bed before 11 nearly every night...he gets ornery and not much fun...its just how it is. 2-Finn doesn't care what time we go to bed, he's up at 7:00 or, in our case, 6:30 today.  Am I the only parent who thinks this way?  I say this because, everyone I talked to stayed up, even with babies that wake up early.  Maybe I'm just an oldie or I care too much about sleep, but I'm going to wait until my kids are a bit older to stay up and ring in the new year. 
But here is what we did to enjoy our early night in.
We made pizza and baked it on my new pizza stone.  It was a bubbly crispy mess of goodness.

Roy was stoked to use the GIANT spatula he got with the pizza stone, I mostly just enjoyed how stoked he was about it.

We enjoyed out pizza with some martinellis and watched a movie, and then we said goodnight to 2011.
Here are other things being enjoyed around here:
The dishwasher: Finn has radar for dish time, because it means he gets to play with all the dirty utensils, and spinning fan. 
Haircuts:  This picture shows some of Finn's crazy locks...especially around his ears.  Grandma trimmed while I held.  He looks less like a rag-a-muffin, and more like a little boy now.

Dump Trucks:  This toy gets pushed around daily

 Wranglers:  These pants are so big on the skinny little dude that we have to roll them up, and he doesn't have much holding them up, but he looks so irresistibly cute, that we wear them regularly.

 Garbage cans:  Don't know what the attraction is, but Finn can't seem to get enough of the trashcan.  Here he is checking out the discarded martinelli's bottle.  Needless to say, the garbage is outside a lot.

As you can see life is wonderfully enjoyable around here, we have been blessed immensely this past year and can see the hand of the Lord in all of our successes, struggles, and ultimately our growth, and we put our trust and faith in him for the coming year.