New Year's Day/Christmas Cleanup

After New Year's Day ebelskivers (see previous post), we had a Christmas Cleanup Extravaganza. It took close to 2 hours, but we got every scrap of Christmas cleaned up, organized and put away. Ethan then wanted to immediately put up Valentines Day/St. Patrick's decorations, and was a little disappointed to find that we don't have any. -RLBefore

2 Hours and some caffeine later

Happy New Year 2010!

We may have a new tradition for New Year's Day at the Lien household. New Year's ebelskivers! Santa Claus brought me an ebelskiver pan that I had been eying from Williams Sonoma for some time. My first attempt ended with a strong verdict: Ebelskivers are awesome and delicious and awesomely delicious. Adorable little pockets full of yumminess. I filled some with brown sugar and some with pumpkin butter. I have several other varieties to try that will no doubt end up as posts on this blog. Come on over for some! -RL

New Year's Eve

We didn't do much for New Year's Eve this year. Our winter break was pretty fun-filled and busy, so we actually looked forward to staying in. We had a big batch of carbonara and Chris watched Lost all night. I fell asleep reading, so we were pretty much party animals. Chris did play outside with Ethan and Elliot for most of the day and part of the night. It was -15 degrees out, but it didn't faze them one bit. -RLThis is the drift in front of our house. It's very tall, there is a tunnel going through it and the kids love to play on it.

Ethan and Chris played football in the snow for about an hour. Ethan was all smiles.