Christmas09

"you get what you git and you don't throw a fit"

christmas at the diviney's

christmas at the miller's

Cousins

We had a very enjoyable holidays this year. We celebrated with Jeremy's father and family the friday before christmas and joined his mother/sister saturday. It was great to just hang out and catch up. Thank you again to trudy for watching the kids while Jer and I hit the town. Then we packed up and headed out to mom and dad's where we enjoyed four days of relaxinf family time. Really we all just sat around this year hardly doing anything. amazing. Unfortunately on the one day we did go into town mom and I were crushed to find people's christmas clearance inventories completely dismal. I guess they were better prepared this year for the fact that no one has money! ha! Jeremy also missed his usual "owen's" lunch. On the bright side we were able to visit with Nathan weathers and his lovely wife and new baby! It was soooo nice to visit with them again. Mucho tea. Mishael of course looked glowing even though she was sick the whole time. We came home and had an extremley quiet new year. Ahhh, my sort of way to ring in the new year. Last but not least Laura and I STILL managed to make a snowman. We had to go to the pass to do it. Pictures to come.

self portrait of a five year old

So Trinity absconded with my camera while I napped and this is the result. Oh, and there were about 200 like this! She even managed to take three short videos. yikes. she is saavy that one.

to the tree!

I think I could probably make a career of doing trees. not that I am good at it (and of course I am limited to what I have, not some humongo budget) but that it's just so dang fun!

As you know, I splurged on a pre-lit flocked tree last year. Moving from where it snows to where it rains made me realize how much I miss that "snow covered tree" look. So now I have it INSIDE. I tore all the poinsettias off an old garland and it really added the punch I was looking for. I had this really great stocking ribbon I was going to put on it too but I didnt have enough to creat the effect I wanted. This will do for this year. Oh and there are some other random decor shots as well, including (thanks nee nee) trinity's favorite hello kitty ornament. Someone tell me how to fix the sideways pictures! there are straight in the file I loaded them from. . .grr.