Merry Christmas!

This was our first X-mas day we have spent alone, just the five of us. We thought of everyone and missed everyone. Zoe and I started a project a few weekends ago that ended up taking weeks; it would still be going had we not ran out of supplies. We made individual snowflakes with each "family" members picture on it and push pinned it into our dining room wall to make it feel like everyone was with us. It's tough to see, but every relatively close family member has a picture including Auntie, Doug, Devin & TK, though it's hard to identify the pictures in the shots below. We will hang them every year, but hope next year we will see some of you in person.

We spent X-mas eve with Uncle Tom, Aunt Jan, Jenna and Jeff. Thanks to Grandma Sue, we enjoyed a delicious ham dinner and we were glad to spend the evening with family. With the arrival of Santa and the generosity of the other family members Christmas morning was eventful, and the kids made out as usual. We didn't see Kellan most of the day as he still enjoys Legos immensely. We just hope Dexter has the same passion. Zoe got a new bike as her old one was run over by a neighbor on Halloween. We still have not had any rain or snow, and though the temps are in the 40's and 50's (to compare to CA/WA feels like 60's) we went for a short bike ride. As you can see in the pix below Zoe is still not too impacted by the weather. When the sun went down she actually admitted to being cold...I was wearing a down jacket. Dexter wasn't quite too sure what to make of everything. He had some long moments with some of his gifts and also loved to "play" with Kellan & Zoe's gifts. Everyone was very good to us once again. We feel very blessed to live the life we live and have the people we do in it - ***Jim only hopes for a life with sleep & less fighting***

X-mas picture outtakes

X-Mas Eve

X-mas Day

We left the training wheels on for the day...

Misc.

Enjoying our bottles

Zoe got a Hannah Montana karaoke machine for X-mas. We all know how Zoes loves to sing, but we seemed to have forgotten Zoe still lacks the ability to read...so we played music in the background & she rocked out on the mic....YouTube video gets a little long, but there's a lot of passion there, unfortunately I grabbed the camera a few songs in and enthusiasm began to wain.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LyDXu0uVvVM