Christmas Break

BOWLING
We all went bowling together and had a great time. Derek still doesn't appreciate it so much, but he did pretty well putting up with the rest of us having fun. He brought along his trucks to keep himself occupied. He took those trucks everywhere with him for a few weeks.



SOCK HANDS
This was the first (and probably only) time I put socks on Derek's hands. He thought it was really funny. Of course Elliott had to join in the fun. They are my little goofballs.

ERECTOR SET
We spent several days putting together this dune buggy from Elliott's new Erector set. It was quite a challenge to put together. Elliott was great at finding all the right pieces, but I pretty much had to take care of the assembly. It's a lot of tiny nuts and bolts. It was a tricky, time consuming project. I guess I need to get up the urge to disassemble the buggy so we can move on to the next project. Only 19 more projects to try out. How long do you think that will take??? It was fun to see it actually work after putting it together ourselves (it has a motor attached).

SLEDDING
My cousin Gina invited us to go sledding with her and her husband, Chris, as well as her brother Sam and his family, and her cousin Jesse and his family. It hadn't snowed much for a while, but Gina found this great hill next to the school she works at. It was perfect. Elliott had a blast going down the hills. There was one little hill that was pure ice from being used so much. There was a bump at the bottom. The kids had fun sliding down it without sleds (the bottom left picture shows Elliott going down it head first). Derek didn't much appreciate the sport (top left picture). Afterwards, we all went to Gina's house for a delicious lunch. It was so fun to spend time with my cousins, who I don't see often enough. Hopefully we can do it again soon.

We had an enjoyable Christmas break. I think the second week was better than the first. The lead up to Christmas was a little crazy, but we had lots of fun afterwards. We spent lots of evenings playing games with friends too. It was sad to see all the fun come to an end, but it was nice to see school start again. Only 3 more months of school for Brent! Time is flying.