And there were..."Balls of Light!"

The only enjoyable part of taking down the tree...

The kids scream out, "We get to do Balls of Light!" As all the ornaments come down, and finally the strands of lights too, we roll them up and have some fun...

 Here is what they looked like when this blog started the beginning of 2011, after Christmas of 2010.

Now it is the end of 2011, and after writing a weekly post or two, and photographing all these fun moments. Here they are at the end of this year, a year older and a little bigger, these are my babies in a year of growingupfree....