playing catch-up

For all my "bah-humbug-ness" Christmas turned out pretty nice. So nice, in fact, that I was sorry to see the holiday season end. I bought a new digital camera with my birthday money, so I was able to capture a lot of holiday memories. We spent Dec. 20-27 in Buhl. It was nice to be with my family, but Brian had to go back to work and didn't come back until Christmas Eve, and I missed him. But the kids had so much fun with cousins and grandparents.

It snowed, and Melissa, Jackson, Leah, and Ethan made a "Snow Sea Turtle" as you can see.

The kids also did a pre-Christmas show. Ethan, with a Boppy on his head, and Jon are doing some sort of stand-up routine.

Boone looking wistfully out the window at the snow and the little birds.



Ethan and Corinne on Christmas morning.

Corinne seemed to enjoy all the excitement of her first Christmas, even if she didn't quite understand what was going on.




Ethan is a BIG Wall-E fan. He got the DVD plus a Wall-E and Eve toy. I have since watched it twice and I have to say it's one of my favorite Pixar movies.




Brian teaching Grandma Murray how to bowl on my parents new Wii.


We were back home for New Years and spent New Years Eve playing games at Pam and Chad's. Both Ethan and Corinne were up at midnight, but we all slept in on New Year's Day. As with all vacations, the time went by way too quickly. But, like I said, we have a lot of good memories.