Ring in the New Year

Hello to all our family and friends.

We hope the New Year has been good to you so far!

We have been busy this Holiday season.
I now feel a deep sigh of relief that all of the activity is over and I can catch up on my blog.

We had a snowy December but unfortunately nothing since. The boys enjoyed a couple of inches at Grammy's house a week before school got out for the holiday break. Grampa made the snowman - he's packing some heat.



Christmas Eve.
We tried the annual picture on the piano bench but the boys were too excited to go play with their cousins.

Christmas morning just before the tearing open of the gifts.

Christmas evening.

It snowed again at Grammy's just at sundown. We enjoyed watching the boys (including the adults) engage in snowball fights.

Brendan donning his new Darth Vader costume.

We took a last minute road trip with Auntie Denise and Uncle Mark down to Yorba Linda for a few days after Christmas. We managed a trip to Disneyland amidst the crowd. The boys (especially Jeff) had a great time and can't wait to do it again.

The boys really loved the parade - they got to see all of their favorite characters including Lightning McQueen, Woody and Buzz Lightyear.

We are now back in the swing of things. We register Brendan for Kindergarten next Monday - YIKES! He is very excited to be a big boy in Kindergarten. Bryce of course wants to stay in Kindergarten and never go to first grade (remember his motto - "We fear change"). He knows there is no "choice time" with toys in 1st grade and more homework. Poor baby has been very sick all fall/winter with tonsillitis. He came home from school today with a fever and a sore throat. He's still on a low dose antibiotic but it could be another infection. We'll have to wait and see how it progresses.

We love and miss you all.

We hope you had a wonderful holiday.

Hopefully I will be a little more timely with next month's blog.