Gift

January is galloping to a close so I suppose I'd better get these old photos up before I forget about them altogether.

This blogs serves two main purposes for me: 1) to keep in touch with friends (mainly just you, dear Oregonian birthday girl) and family and 2) because I have absolutely no long term memory capacity and I would forget all this life stuff without the visual reminders.

So! December. We took an adorable Christmas photo of the kids for the first time ever.

I especially like the outtakes

We celebrated St. Nicholas Day

and Christmas, most notably with a nativity play at church

and the elaborate construction of a gingerbread house

We also made some special treats for dear ones

including our new goddaughter and her family

(the banana is a rattle and the pear is crinkly)

We also started our Winter Wonderland semester and made crystals during our study of snowflakes

making a super saturated solution

Liam had a very happy birthday

and a few days later his new birthday bear Teddy was blissfully wedded to Curious George, with the whole stuffed herd in attendance

Liam presided, of course

We played in a whole lot of snow

And suddenly, here we are in 2011! Here's to another full, imperfect, wild, and joyous year!