...And A Happy New Year!

We spent Christmas in St. George this year. It was nice to take a few days off and especially nice that the whole family came. Christmas eve stared with kids. I made a homemade gingerbread house to decorate. Jonas had a lot of fun (see bottom left picture). I'm not sure he understood that the point of the activity was to decorate.

Then they opened jammies from my mom. Makayla had it right when she said "well, that's not very exciting." But they sure looked cute! It was at this point my camera battery died :(
Luckily, we got a free Itouch for signing up with our bank last August which has a camera on it, but I realized this after opening presents. (I got everything I wanted including an electric throw blanket, a Boulder area hiking book, other books, stamps, and clothes.)
Tim and I got my dad some clay pigeons for Christmas, so we took the guns out to use them.

I have to admit, I look pretty hard core. Too bad the guns were so heavy I couldn't handle very many shots-at least with the shot guns.
We did manage to sneak in some grandkid pictures for my mom.
I sure have cute nieces and nephews!Unfortunately, that's all the pictures I got of Christmas.
On New Year's Eve, Tim and I held a party with lots of food and friends. Sadly, that is when I realized my camera was still dead, so I hooked the battery up to charge and didn't take any pictures.

Yesterday, Tim and I took our new snowshoes up Boulder Canyon to try them out. We found one trail with barely enough snow and took our maiden voyages with them. It was tons of fun!

I even took a picture of my feet in honor of Aubrey.

Though always too short, we had a great holiday season. Tim is grateful he passed all of his classes, and is starting his second semester in a week. I am getting into my new job and started teaching Sunbeams again this year. Hopefully 2011 will be another great year.