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Happy 2012!

Happy New Year greetings everyone! I hope that everyone had an enjoyable holiday season and was able to share it with family and friends. We were lucky enough this year to see all of our family during the holidays. The Kilbane family traveled to St. Louis to spend Chrsitmas with us and Brian's brother and sister-in-law. The day after Christmas we traveled to Cincinnati to spend the week after Christmas and New Year's with the Humphrey family. We had an amazing time over those two weeks and were totally spoiled with love and gifts! We are so thankful! The kids were beyond spoiled...I think thier lists to Santa were fulfilled and then some. I took so many pictures from those two weeks, I am compiling a collage to post here, because there are just too many to upload!
We are looking forward to a busy start to 2012. Kaitlyn is back to school and we are back to the swing of our weekly routine. Brian and I are lucky enough to have his parents back to keep the kids so we could go on  mini-getaway for his Birthday (and my Christmas gift).
Kaitlyn is still Irish dancing and I hope to be able to post some pictures and video here soon. Her studio is unlike any we've been to and they only allow parents to watch one class a month and it's a designated week. It's usually the end of the month.
Brady starts My First School at The Magic House next week. This is the same intoductory pre-school program that Kaitlyn did for a year before going to St. Paul for pre-school. We will go one hour, one day a week. I think he will really enjoy this time with Mommy and learn lots of new and exciting things!
Watch for more pictures and videos....2012 will be a great year!
Cheers!

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