Well I’m sitting at my desk on the first morning back from my wonderful Christmas vacation (yes, that’s Christmas vacation, not Holiday vacation. You know, the one where Jesus is born, wise men come, and shepherds watch their fields…). I’m in that hour of uselessness between when you sit down at your desk and when you actually do start working. I’ve read several emails and responded to a few. I cleaned up a stack of papers that had been spread across my keyboard while I was gone. And that’s about the extent of my usefulness, so I decided to blog.

Janey and I had such a wonderful trip up to Utah to see my family. We had a great time playing with the kids and just catching up with everyone. The Christmas presents were wonderful (and I do mean wonderful) but for me they were nowhere near as pleasing as just being able to sit around and spend time with my family. I somehow don’t realize how much I miss them when I’m down here. And as time between visits seems to grow I forget how much fun it can be to just sit around at the end of the day and chat about whatever comes to mind. Most of the time we end up on the subject of the kids latest antics… they’re funny.

Janey has been a very good blogger and already got 13 pages of photos up in our photo album. I have got enough to add about another 13 and I don’t think Janey is finished. We’ll have lots of great photos!

So what did we do…
(here’s the short version)

• Bought 3 lift passes to Snowbasin and lost them
• Bought 3 more lift passes at the gate to replace the lost ones
• Spent a wonderful day skiing at Snowbasin
• Taught Braden to ski (he is totally fearless)
• Pulled every muscle in my legs
• Had my car painted (thank you dad!)
• Made my mom cry (the good kind)
• Stressed the cat out with all the travel and kids
• Had the best Christmas in memory

More to come on the subject… I just think I should do some work for Disney since they’re paying for the time 🙂