Saturday: Happy New Years!

For not being a busy day, a lot sure did happen for me to tell you about.

I ate a yogurt for breakfast. Flurry's reaction in the movie is why I usually eat breakfast at work. I tried to make it a little shorter than it actually was, but I think it is still too long. Oh well. You'll get the idea quickly.

One of our smoke detectors is beeping. It has been since we got home. It beeps twice about every three hours. After we finally figured out which one it was I put a new battery in...and it is still beeping. Hmm.

I played a lot of warcraft today. Yesterday I saved some cute squirrels and rabbits and injured fawns. Today I impaled baby bears on the tops of pine trees. Then I realized what I was doing (the horror!) and instead threw them into the trampoline so that the could live another day.

It was also second Christmas today. Second Christmas is when we actually get out the stuff we got for Christmas and put it in usable places. And it's fun to rediscover what we were given. Here's Flurry staring down her present...it will have cat grass in it in a few days.

Well, it's that time of year again. Ben and I have decided to ring in the New Year by not doing anything because Im not feeling great. It's been a lot of years since I haven't done anything for the New Year, but it might be nice. Or I might go to sleep before midnight. we'll see.

This year was better than last year. It was still stressful, but there were a lot of fun things too. Let's take a random sampling of pictures from the year. (Flurry ended up being featured prominently, but it's because she doesn't mind getting her picture taken. And really, she's just super cute.)

January: I received a Lego Ice Cube maker for Christmas and color some of the ice cubes. I also colored my hands.

February: snow!

March: the laundry never stops. Luckily Flurry was making it a little more interesting this day.

April: Flurry got her cast off! It took another month until she seemed fully healed though.

May: Flurry sleeps! I love it when she covers her eyes with her paw. It's so cute.

June: picnic! Look at all of that delicious food.

July: cereal-luck. Come share your favorite cereal.

August: we visited NYC with Dusty and Laura

September: Ben and I went on a trip to St. Lucia. Here's Ben on our way to a zip-line in a rain forest.

October: we bought a pound of dice

November: we went to Holland for Thanksgiving

December: Flurry had a huge photo shoot as we tried to get a good one for the Christmas card.

Friday: we're home

We're home! We made it a lot farther last night than we were planning, so that was nice today. However, we're still exhausted from the trip. Hopefully some warcraft will help.

Various days: pictures

Well, I had meant to put this picture on before but forgot.

AAHH!! The Christmas monster is going to get Nathan and Liz.




It was Ben's Dad's birthday yesterday. We went out for a delicious dinner. I had perch almondine and it was amazing. Then ice cream pie with a special chocolate sauce. yum. well, I only have a good picture of Ben.



finally, I made my own donuts. They turned out rather well, although they made me rather thirsty.

Ben says hi

yesterday: skiing

first a picture that I forgot two days ago...all of us in our Christmas shirts. Ben's shrunk though, so I'll be inheriting it.




Then yesterday I went skiing. We chose to just stay on the easiest hill since most of us were learning, so Ben decided to try snowboarding.

Here's Travis teaching Jacob.



Ben looking like he knows what he's doing.




Ben in his normal position in the beginning (by the end he got much better)



Brothers




Us

Today: funny things

last night there was an animal alphabet spinning wheel and for N the animal was newt. Someone asked the question...is newt really the best N animal? So seven of us think. And think. Ben and Kate came up with some off the wall animal that I don't know what it is and Judd got nightingale. Ben finally looked it up on his phone and there are only about six animals that start with N and newt really is the most common. too bad it doesn't make a sound.

Then at breakfast Nathan ordered the vegetarian skillet with a side of sausage. While I completely understand why he did it, it did seem rather funny to order both of those things.