Happy Holidays 2013

Happy holidays to all!  December was fabulous - lots of time at home, together.  As a family, we played a lot of games, including Boggle (yes!), Rummikub, and $25,000 Pyramid.  We completed a few puzzles, the first of which was the St. Louis Arch, in honor of beloved Uncle Al and Charlotte.

We had the Huffs over for a day and served lasagna, everyone's typical Christmas feast (ha ha).  Elizabeth loved receiving many itunes cards and Michael was ecstatic with his X Box acquisition!  Can you spot Zoe and Niki in the photo?

We spent an afternoon at Mom's in Clearfield, where we admired her many, many home renovations and remodeling projects.  We were so impressed with her eye for decorating and enjoyed being in her beautifully-decorated home (notice the lit greenery in the photo).  Elizabeth has used the European purse Mom gave her each day since then (notice it in the photo as well).  We look forward to seeing Mom on Monday, when she'll travel to Mt. Sterling for Michael's basketball game.  Go Titans!

Indeed, Michael kept us entertained with basketball games and tournaments.  As usual, he scores more than half his entire team's points, including a couple of game-winning free throws in Frankfort.  Rosemary, Angie, Anita, and Matthew were on hand to witness one of the Frankfort games.  Apparently they served awesome pizza.  Just ask Matthew.

For New Year's Eve we went out to eat at a new restaurant in Georgetown, Buffalo Wild Wings.  Elizabeth's friend Anderson came with us - she may look familiar because she was at our house before Elizabeth's dance.  Speaking of that dance, we met Peyton!  That's right, we finally met that cute guy.  He spent the afternoon at our house this week.  As you can imagine, I was forbidden from taking any photos.  You'll just have to take our word for it that he was polite and cute and kind.

Of course we loved being at home so we could spend lots of time with the puppies who are definitely not night owls and definitely didn't make it until midnight on December 31, 2013.