Merry Christmas!

We had such wonderful Holidays! Chandler and I left a week early so Brandon could take his finals. Then they canceled all but 2 of them because of "snow" and the "chance of snow" :-P Portland isn't really prepared for the snow... I suppose that's how it would be if it snowed at home :-)

So, on Thursday (3 days early) Brandon joined Chandler and I in California and the never ending hours of settler's began. Literally, we had to have it set up before my dad got home for lunch so we could play while he was home.

Mostly the trip consisted of eating too much and playing lots of games. Christmas was fabulous, and we were very blessed. Chandler did his very first hunt... he followed the cheerios to a dancing reindeer. He also got a construction set full of trucks, which he opened, yelled, gave eveyone around him hugs and then hugged the box enthusiastically.

We didn't take a whole lot of pictures, sorry... we video taped most of it, and we don't have the cord (still!) to put them on the computer. So, you'll just have to deal with what we do have :-)

Chandler learned to push chairs to get things he wants off of tables and what not. A little later than most kids I think, but we were okay with that. You know that lemon bundt cake that they sell at Costco? He got into it twice :-P

At the ward Christmas party (here in Portland) Chandler hated Santa, but really enjoyed playing with our little camera...

I swear Chandler really took this picture, and they didn't know.. that's a normal face that Jeff makes ;-)

It's always a difficult task for me to take down the Christmas decorations, but it's done. Chandler keeps talking about the tree in the back yard (tree is a new word), and Brandon needs to take down the lights on the house. A new year has begun, and 2009 is going to be the best yet! Just wait till August and I'll start talking about Christmas again!

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!