Family Christmas Bucket List

In no particular order:

1. Family talent show/Christmas party
2. Skype Jeff
3. Family 5k
4. Make and decorate gingerbread houses
5. Game night
6. Date night (kid-less)
7. Pictures with Santa and train ride at the railroad park
8. Watch Christmas Vacation
9. Family service project
10. Make/eat pomegranate/avocado salsa
11. Organ Stop Pizza... anyone, anyone? My kids loved it last year, so I thought it might be fun.
12. Gingerbread houses
13. Push-up contest

I was going to say car caroling, but we don't have a big enough car for that anymore. :(  Other ideas are welcome, but we can't let the list get out of hand or we won't have time for it all. Have I forgotten any essentials?

P.S. Be on the hunt for white elephant gifts. I already have ours and I loooove them.

Wes and the Union Pacific, January 22nd

 This kid loves trains!  Future
railroad engineer.

Union Pacific Yard,
7th Street downtown by the
Ball park.

McCormick Stillman Railroad Park

Jake Takes State (Again)

Otherwise known as the day that I peed my pants because I lost all bladder control from screaming my lungs out as Jake approached the finish line. Not to be confused with the day I peed my pants at the Grand Hyatt New York and then tried to make it look like I spilled something. I was standing on grass this time AND wearing a flowy skirt (bonus!), so it was totally inconspicuous.

But really, dad made this video (good job dad! I didn't know you had video editing skills) and even though this is kinda old news now, I thought it was family blog worthy.

Just savin' it for later

I was going through the pictures on my phone and I found this one that Ellie sent me. Since she has abandoned blogging, I thought I'd post it here because it's pretty funny...

Ellie's photo caption... "What is that, you ask? Why, it's Sophie's quesadillas stuck to the fridge with magnets. Duh."