Happy Holidays!!

From one family adventure to another. Christmas Day, Dave and I, will the little bean, went over to Steve and Mo's house to have dinner and family fun with the whole family. Dan, Jo and Issac were in town from Tacoma!
Issac is now a bit past 1 year old! He is toddling everywhere. Mo was in her glory of course. We had a nice time opening gifts, Steve got the biggest present of all, a new gun safe, and then a scrumpious dinner of prime rib...great job Mo! Kona tried to play with Scarlet and Issac, but neither were interested.
Tuesday night Dan and Jo came over for dinner, and then we went to Bob and Melissa's house for dessert and High School memories.. Booby Bob!
The next Saturday, the whole family crammed into 2 cars and went into Chicago to see the King Tut exhibit and prowl the streets of the Windy City. It was really neat! My fav. though was spending the afternoon in the Macy's building... We had a little bit of an issue getting across Michigan Ave. at one point when we tried to go under the street on the pedway, got totally lost underground for around 15 mintues, and then came up about 4 feet from where we orginally started! good grief... I love Chicago!! Don't you Dave??

Family Ski Trip!!

Our family thought it would be a great idea to all drive up 6 hours to the tip of WI in the middle of winter and go skiing. Of course all the girls were a bit sad as we preferred a family vaca somewhere warm for goodness sake. But the guys were totally excited. We rented a condo at Big Powderhorn, packed a ton of fleeces, all my scarfs and coordinating hats, long underwear, wool socks... things I never pack when on vaca... vaca should be tank tops! Who's idea was it to leave at 4 am anyway?? Not mine. And we had to leave the poor little bean. 6 hours and 3 potty breaks later, we get not to a snow covered, winter wonderland, but a slushy mess! The guys went skiing anyway, and us girls just sat in the hot tub... the one that belonged to the condo next to us as our's was broken!! Needless to say it didn't get fixed til 2 hours before we ended up leaving. Oh well... thankfully Friday night brought a beautiful snow fall and we all got up and put on our boots, hats, snowpants and etc. Sat. morning ready to take off. Mom, Christie and I stuck together and found out that Mom is terrified of the ski lift!! She made quite the exit off the bunny hill lift as she rounded the corner at the lift exit, then jumped off and landed face first! I subsequently peed my pants at the sight of that. Once at the top of the hill, we girls had NO clue which slope to go down. There was nothing marked, and after at least 30 mintues of inching our way up an incline to a map, which offered us still no clue, we picked a slope and snow plowed our way down. We all ended up on our butts, and later found out it was a fairly advanced slope!
All in all, it was a fun time. Mom will probably never go again, I fell a million times, Dave, of course, was awesome and hung out on the black diamonds with the other guys the whole time. Jer learned to snow board, Dad threw out his back trying new tricks, and Diddy and I mastered every green slope and then advanced ourselves to a few blue ones!!

Random things....

So, I thought I would post a few random things that have happened in early winter. First, we thought we would show you our ghetto patio door. It is SOO cold by this back door we have fixed it up Loves Park style. Heaven forbid we go out and get a storm door or something!

And the second picture is the result of me, Keri, trying to get a bit too much accomplished in the morning before work. Dave had already told me I was only allowed to get myself ready in the morning after I left the sliding glass door open ALL DAY. But, I thought it would be a good idea to start baking my yams for around 45 mintues before I went to work so I would only have to bake them another 15 when I got home. Too bad I forgot about them and they baked ALL DAY in the oven... like for at least 8 hours. ooohhh stink!!