hey look! it's after 7 and I'm awake!

Awwwww yeeeeah...I'm blogging after seven o'clock. Can you even believe it? Last week at this time I was sitting on the couch telling a friend that I was seriously concerned that Ephraim wasn't going to progress in the sleep department any time soon and that I was destined to be getting up every three hours for the next several months. What a difference a week makes! He had a few nights of 4 hour stretches and then a few five hour stretches and then last night he slept for 6 1/2 hours straight before waking up to eat at 1:30. What a way to ring in the new year! So now I'm getting all cocky and staying up until 9. Party!

I spent a lot of time today weeding through Christmas photos and proofing some of my favorites. There are still more to come but late this afternoon a very, very cool thing dawned on me - we have seen every one of Sarah and Ephraim's grandparents over the holiday. After six years of living out of state this is the first year that we've been able to celebrate with everyone and we loved every minute of it. Our kiddos are lucky to have three sets of grandparents that adore them - and Brent and I are lucky to have three sets of weekend sitters always on stand-by!

We kicked off our Christmas with JoJo and Papa. Sarah loves spending time at their riverhouse...

Then we headed home on Christmas Eve and Mom (Grama) and Tom (Grandad) spent the night with us and were there for present-opening on Christmas morning...

After a few days at home we loaded up and headed to South Carolina to spend a few days with Dad (Grandaddy) and Sue (Nana). Check out Grandaddy's new hot rod...

I didn't get a great shot of Nana but lucky for us a photographer for their local paper DID! What a surprise it was to see this in the paper on Sunday morning!

Nana had taken Sarah to the park while Brent and I were on an anniversary date. A local photographer happened to be driving by and snapped this photo. How cool is that?!

Happy 2008 everyone!