Goodbye 2013

Happy Holidays and goodbye 2013.  Here is a look at the Christmas card I designed this year.  I took an annual report/info-graphic approach and listed out our family stats.  It's fun to see our year this way. I noticed I fell behind on blog posting this year.  Not really sure why... maybe it was all of those baseball games? In 2013 I posted just over 100 times and in 2012 I had an all-time high record of 287. In 2011 I posted 238 times. Whoa. That's a lot of posting - thanks for sticking with me over the years.  I am happy to have this online journal and it'll be nice for the kids to go through one day.

So on this last day of of 2013 (my last post for 2013) I wish you all a Happy New year and lots of love,  happiness, luck and health for 2014. 

Archer

Finally took Ben to an archery range (twice). Poor kid normally only gets to shoot his bow when Grandpa can supervise. We found a range in SL and it's pretty reasonable, 6$ for unlimited shooting. Ben recieved some class sessions as a Christmas gift. He's a natural. He'd be a pro if he'd wear his glasses or contacts. Silly boy!

North Pole express

On Friday we took a train ride on the North Pole Express. We met a few nice elves, Mrs. Claus and even had a visit from Santa.

While heading to the North Pole we enjoyed Hot cocoa ("hot coke" as Nic calls it), famous chocolate chip cookies and caroling. Santa faces us all bells. It was a festive, memorable and fun night.

Gingerbread men

Having some fun last week building gingerbread houses. Surprisingly easy this year, nothing fell apart. Nic has been begging for weeks to put one together. He was thrilled!