The Zoo

The Johnsons gave Luke a family membership to the zoo for his birthday. Today we went to check it out.

Those are two lions right beside the boys. 

John's new sunglasses

Leopard and spy glasses

There's a really neat park right outside the zoo. This apparatus was a favorite.

Merry *achoo* Christmas!

Despite sneezes, sniffles, runny noses, and coughs, we had a nice Christmas. We opened presents at our house on the 20th so the kids had a few days to play with their new toys before we hopped in the car to see our families. Linda prepared an Italian feast on Christmas Eve for Charlie, Joe, Rachel, Tommy, and us. And, she gave me the most beautiful blanket that she crocheted. I'll treasure it. Then we spent Christmas Day at Grandpa and Grandma's house with Annie and Shane. Jane made a delicious prime rib roast, and we were spoiled rotten with gifts. Silly Jack was already planning what he's going to ask Santa for on the car ride home today. Luke told us he thought Santa did a pretty good job deciding what to get him, so maybe he didn't even need to tell Santa what to bring. I think I'm just going to ask Santa for good health next year. These colds are for the birds. My camera didn't get a lot of action this year, but here are just a few: 

Catching Up

With the busyness of the holiday season, blogging has gotten away from me. So, here's a little catch up post. 

We celebrated John's birthday last weekend. 

One of the local churches did a really neat live Nativity that we drove through last weekend.

We had a holiday party at our house yesterday. We invited all of our new friends from the neighborhood for hot chocolate, holly globs, games, and a gift exchange. 

Jack- 2014

Luke- 2014

Santa Visit and Letters to Santa

We went to visit Santa this morning, and the boys wrote their letters to Santa. It's going to be a Star Wars Christmas apparently. 

Happy Holidays!

The boys' Christmas card is going out earlier than mine this year. They made this online, and it was too cute not to share.