Christmas Party

Here is my creation sitting on my desk at work. Unfortunately spouses are not invited to the Christmas party where I currently work so no pictures of my better half. We did glass blowing and it was a fun activity.






We will post the Christmas pictures of our family soon as well. Things have been crazy trying to get our house ready to list on the market in January.

Work

This isn't an excuse, just an explanation........

Outtakes

The other day we tried to take family pictures for our Christmas letter. I set up a "home studio" in the kitchen (okay, just some brown drapes and the camera on a tripod) because we thought we could get better results if we could take 100 pictures instead of just a few at a real photo studio. You will see in our Christmas letter that even the best ones aren't perfect, but here are some of the more funny and less perfect ones:

Oops!

Today we made gingerbread cookies after Trey got home from school. He got out the cookie cutters, and while looking through the boxes he said I hadn't organized them very well because the dinosaurs were in the "land animals" box, the pterosaur was in the "flying animals" box, and the plesiosaur was in the "water animals" box. He put all the prehistoric animals together, and included the alligator for good measure because "actually, the ancestors of alligators lived in the dinosaur age, and they're one of the oldest surviving reptile families." The poor kid has pretty much no chance of escaping his childhood without becoming a science geek: Carson and I grew up with 4 non-science geek parents and still managed to become geekish biology majors; with 2 science geeks as parents, Trey as the oldest is getting the worst of it.