family

it was wonderful to be able to spend a couple days with the whole family at christmas this year. i'm so glad it worked out!

from left to right: back row: me, matt, sarah, luke, daddy, mom, kevin, kelly

front row: jake, bailey, prima, tella

more christmas photos later!

all is bright

an early morning christmas stroll...

holly jolly

December weekends have been super fun so far.

We went to Vail for the first time this winter, with our good friends Henry & Mary Jackson and sweet baby Jane. It was a relaxing weekend and I loved hanging out with Mary Jackson and Jane. :) I didn't take many photos because MJ was teaching me to use her fancy shmancy camera and I kinda forgot to use mine!

Matt surprised me with a date to see the lights at the Botanic Gardens and dinner at Cucina Calore!

I took the 13ish-year-old girls from church to see the new Chronicles of Narnia movie. The movie was great and it was fun to hang with these girls. :)

Then we had a (first annual) Christmas Vacation party. The only photos I have are of Henry and Matt (both as Cousin Eddie) and Jane as Uncle Lewis. so fun!

yikes!

sometimes I have trouble sleeping. my new hobby when i can't sleep is to look at real estate on my handy-dandy Zillow app on my iPhone. I enjoy looking around the Highland Park area because we used to go for walks and runs there. Sometimes you can find a real steal for less than a million. I was quite surprised when I saw the house below... we used to play frisbee with Jake on a daily basis across the street from this house!

why would anyone ever need ten bathrooms?

thanksgiving 2010

Our Thanksgiving mostly consisted of work (Matt on thursday, saturday, and sunday of thanksgiving weekend, and me on friday...)... but we did manage to squeeze in some family time and a lovely turkey dinner. We had both sets of parents and Matt's brother, Andy, here.

Jake enjoyed the extra attention for a few days. :)

on friday night after our thanksgiving meal, Matt's cousin Sarah Jane came over and we played a fun game of Apples to Apples.


and there you have it! I actually blogged about a real life event, not just a dog photo. :)