Holiday Cheer

Recap of the Holiday Cheer: You can click on the pictures to enlarge them.

We visited my family and went downtown to see all the lights and festivities, and of course we couldn't escape an Alamo picture. Then on Christmas Eve we went to Simon's grandparents for the feast and got to open presents. We got fantastic presents, as usual! Now we have a grill to expand Simon's cooking ability and feed my constant hunger for meat! We got tons of other awesome presents too, thank you everyone! Back at my house Mom got both of our college diplomas professionally framed so now we can prove we're edumacated. And of course lots of other great presents! Denise gave us all family portraits we took at Thanksgiving, she's getting really good at this photography thing! Overall, a fantastic finish to a wonderful year!

Happy Holidays, Good Tidings, And All That Jazz...

The recent barrage of repetitive, grating Christmas Muzak blared over grocery store PA systems has alerted me that the four-month-long, never-ending Holiday Season is upon is. Yay!

A while back I walked out of another long OT weekday to be greeted by snow. A lot of snow. More snow than I would've expected. In fact, my car was covered with a good two inches of powdery frost. For one night it was quite the wintery wonderland.




We might've waited too long to get a Christmas tree. Our tally of broken necessities rose by an xbox and two cars (one since fixed) so we were a bit preoccupied. At first glance our replacement tree may appear to be a small ficus draped with a sad Charlie-Brown-esque strand of luminous plastic. A second glance would most likely confirm said cursory observation.


We'll be heading back to SA to soak in all the good food and company we can handle for Christmas! See you guys then!