A high school pre-season tournament

Whitney-"I totally didn't touch her she just fell to the ground"
Mom-"oh really??"

Ice Blocking

The day after Christmas we decided to go out and give ice blocking a try. A few things we learned, you can't buy ice blocks here, you have to make them and the grass here is not good for ice blocking. It ended up being a bit disappointing.
But we had fun trying

Ok that kinda hurt.

Mike hit a dirt patch and went tumbling down the hill.

Pictures for our Christmas Card

Christmas Eve

Christmas 2011

This year we decided to stay home,  it was our first Christmas ever away from family.

 The kids were pretty good and didn't get up to early

That is one way to come down

 We hid a present for the kids up in the media room which as you can see up to this point had really just been a storage room. They were so excited and before long we had the room cleaned up and transformed into this

I got a new phone

We had a great year. We got up and opened the gifts left from Santa, had breakfast and then got ready for church. After church we came home played around with our gifts and then later that evening opened gifts from each other. I was a very relaxing enjoyable day.