Nativity Scene

Tuesday 12-28-10

Today was one of those wonderfully relaxing vacation days. I did very little. In fact, I had so little to do that I decided to clean my room and do laundry, just cause.

I thought that you all would apreciate a picture besides just my laundry, especially cause I've already done that haha.

So here is a picture of one of our family traditions, a nativity scene that is from my dad's family that we put up every year in our dining room.



Christmas Tree pics

Monday 12-27-10

Because of the weather, K's flights were all messed up and we got an extra day with her. We played around with my camera a little bit, trying to get a picture in front of the tree with the lights looking big and blurry. We sort of got it to work, but not entirely. If anyone has any suggestions as to how to make this work, I'd love to hear haha.

This is my favorite shot of K, even though the lights a little weird on her face.

And here is where the lights are doing what we were going for the best. If only she had been looking at me...



It was so awesome having K here for so long and for Christmas. I love you and miss you already!!

Walking in a Winter Wonderland

Sunday 12-26-10

We sort of had a white Christmas, it started snowing after dark. We woke up Sunday morning to lots of snow and canceled church. We went walking around right before dark and I got to take some fun pictures with my camera, experimenting and stuff. I'm really enjoying taking pictures, but I need a bigger memory card.

Here's some of faves that we took.

K in front of a pretty tree in our neighborhood.

I liked the light around the streetlights. In the light, the snow and trees looked like Narnia haha.

Brent decided to come out and have a snowball fight. If you look closely you will see that my idiot brother is out in the snow, in shorts, with no shoes, socks, or gloves on. Sorry the pics so blurry.

Throwing snow.

and eating snow. My crazy siblings. Gotta love them!!

Merry Christmas!!

Saturday 12-25-10

We had a great Christmas this year. It was really great having K here!!

My main present this year was a new camera, a Canon DSLR, so from now on I'll have lots of pics as I experiment and learn how to take cool pictures.

Here are some that I took Christmas morning.

One of the new ornanments that my mom picked out this year. She got one for all of us with our first initial on it.

Apparently, I turned 8 this year and not 20. My dad likes to get kinda goofy gifts sometimes, which I love. So this year, I received from him: a computer game that we used to play as kids, Harry Potter legos (already talked to the roomie, it will be going back to college with me haha), and Toy Story 3.

Brent with the whip that K brought back for him and the platter for Mom, somehow he ended up with it and thought that it was a hat. I have no idea..

K with the shirt that I gave her from India.

I hope that everyone had a great Christmas!!

Christmas Eve!!

Friday 12-24-10

Every year on Christmas Eve, my dad makes fondue for us. This year, a couple of my friends from International Friends came over for dinner and to our Christmas Eve service at church.

I hope that the girls enjoyed it, fondue takes a little bit of getting used to sometimes haha. They seemed to really enjoy the service and had some good questions.



Oh, and I don't have a picture, but we also taught them to play spoons. Needless to say, it got a little violent haha.

Dinner with the Smiths

Thursday 12-23-10

Some good friends of our's moved back to Durham over the summer and so we went over to their house on Thursday for dinner. It was really fun to get to hang out with all their girls. Here is a pic of the girl, Erika, who is my age and me, of course.



More Nerts!!

Wednesday 12-22-10

What else would we do??