It's the Most Wonderful(Crazy) Time of the Year.....

I know.... we haven't Blogged anything since Thanksgiving....slackers that we are.

As most teachers know from Thanksgiving to the Winter Holiday Break is a mad sprint filled with kids getting excited, teachers becoming jaded and all of us haulin' butt to the break.

We got our Christmas tree SUPER early this year.... can you say weekend after Thanksgiving. We put up some lights and decorations and then....we got our first good snow. Since then most days have been below freezing. One morning I went to swim practice and it was -15'...... that is a negative 15 degrees Fahrenheit!!!!

We got to Heather's Birthday weekend, went to PF Changs, went out in Fort Collins, had a great time with friends and had a VERY MELLOW Sunday(Heather's 30th).

My birthday fell on the Wed prior to break so we decided to postpone that to the weekend and have fun. Well..... the swim team had a state preview meet on Saturday and so things kinda fell apart until Sunday!!!!

Sunday Dec. 21st Brice came into town, so we headed to DIA to pick him up. It also just so happened that the Portland area was SHUT DOWN due to weather and my good friend Mike King was headed back to Portland from Omaha, Neb. after attending the Final Four for Volleyball.

So we picked up Mike at the same time as Brice and set course for home. Heather made Carnitas with Grilled Stuffed Jalapenos, we drank Disgruntled Elves(the Red Robin variety) and enjoyed the hot tub and snow.

Come Monday night Eric had arranged for us to attend the Denver Nuggets v. Portland Trailblazers basketball game.(Heather's first pro bball game!!!) We sat four rows off the floor directly behind the Blazer's bench!!!! WOW!!! Greg Oden IS a BIG Kid!!! Great game, Blazers lost and we haven't fully embraced the Denver area teams. So Darn!!!

Tuesday took Mikey to the airport and relaxed in preparation for the holiday.

Christmas blog coming soon:)