The Holiday in Pictures

Time to share...

These first few pictures are from our trip to Canada. Cameron's friend, Devin, joined us for this annual excursion. I had to apologize to him after, as John and I do not travel well together. He just said, yeah I've never heard you two holler like that before!



The last pics are from New Years Eve. We were joined by Cameron's girlfriend's family, who we happen to be friends with. Won't that be awkward when they stop seeing each other?!?

Looks Like We Made It...

We made it through another holiday season. Except for the annual sojourn to Canada, this was one of the simplest and peaceful holidays yet.

I expect the reason for the calm is this is the first year in over six years that John actually has a job and can take paid holidays for Christmas! We slept in almost every morning, played with our new Wii, watched every Indiana Jones Movie, and The Dark Knight, and Narnia Prince Caspian...

I have come to believe this is really what the holiday's should be. A chance to reconnect with family - not just the extended family of grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins, and second cousins once removed - but the family you run to practices and games, music lessons and concerts, friends parties and sleepovers; the family you live with and take for granted everyday!

So here's to family - my family and yours. May we all find time to just "be" with each other in 2009!

The Christmas Concert(s)

It always makes me laugh that we parents take our video and still cameras to every concert our children are in, but very seldom manage to get close enough to actually see our own children!

Witness this photo of Jackson's Christmas band concert last week. Can you see him? He's the dot on the right, with the glasses, in the white shirt, wearing the grinch tie...

Alas - I was able to get real shots of Caeden in his final elementary school chorus concert. But I had to arrive 45 minutes early to do it - and I have the grumbles and whines from Cameron and Jackson to verify that we were there that early.

It was worth it :)

Why So Long?

It has been so long since I last posted that my blogging account had deactivated!

Why?

I have no idea. I have not been motivated to write about anything. And it's not like we haven't done anything. Thanksgiving, Christmas Tree shopping, Jackson began his wrestling season...I have a wealth of blogging entries to share. Just no motivation.

I figured if I posted this lame entry, it would inspire me to revisit and continue my blogging journey.

The test will be if I come back tomorrow...