The Best Christmas Gift EVER!!

As usual, this was a very busy christmas season for us trying to fit in going to all of the famlies. I won't bore you with all the details, but some of the highlights were Erin making christmas cookies with he family. Then over at her grandparents house she got to open my gift which was a digital camera. It was very exciting. The funny part was that her grandma bought her the EXACT same one that I did.



Erin's uncle Brad got her cousin a spiderman toy that shoots webs (silly string) and most of us got hit after we put it together. Here is a picture of Em after she has been web-i-fied.



Erin and I at christmas.



My sister got a very nice GIGANTIC remote control. I guess that makes sense because she is getting up there in age :) Love ya Kristin.



My dad got a horn for his golf cart, it makes 50 animal sounds and 30 other songs. My mom was extremely excited about it also.



Santa brought my sister and I headlamps, here we are trying them out. The do both white light and red.



My dad made my sister and Erin veggie bins.



The best present ever came about 3 days before christmas though in the mail when I found out that I passed my engineering (PE) test!!! So I am offically done with test taking! My uncle Mel bought me an "engineer" hat and a box of good and plenty so I could renact the old good and plenty commercial.

OH CHRISTMAS TREE....

This past weekend was VERY eventful. We went up to Kalamazoo for Erin's birthday party (she is officially 1/4 of a century old). We met my family for a birthday breakfast for Erin. Then our friends from Indy came up and we all got to hang out at Phil and Kim's house. On Saturday the girls went and got massages and went shopping while the guys got to babysit and play ping pong. We all went out to eat after.








There was a "blizzard" on Saturday night and the dogs enjoyed playing in the snow on Sunday morning.


On Sunday we went over to Erin's family's house for a birthday lunch and cake. It was a wonderful time. Erin's sister even was nice enough to put 40 candles on her cake instead of 25.

On Sunday night we finally got to decorate the Christmas tree. We played Christmas music and the dogs helped out a lot by getting in the way.

Slacking

I know I have been slacking on the blog, I will try to keep up as the holiday season is creeping up. We have been busy over the past few weeks with Thanksgiving, and Erin's first semester coming to a close. My sister came down with her friend to see the Garth Brooks concert in a theater in South Bend. I made her take a picture in a fun hat.



For thanksgiving Erin made a pumpkin cake for dessert that was wonderful.



For my sisters birthday I told her I would provide work to turn her carport into a garage. My dad, my sister, and I worked on it the day after thanksgiving and got it completely closed in and siding on one side.







This past weekend we went up to Kalamazoo to visit with Phil and Kim (Erin's friends, I am not very fond of them, but I like Tula) We hung out with them on Friday night, then Erin went to a big craft show with her mom, grama, and sister. Lucky I was able to do other things.






This is a picture of how my cousins house is progressing, it is the same one that I helped on earlier this summer.



On a sad note my parents big oak tree in their front yard was struck by lightning last year, and marked earlier this year by the county to be cut down. They came out on Friday and took the tree down. My dad and I measured the base of the tree, it was 5 feet across. He was going to count the rings to find out exactly how old the tree was. On the bright side, there will be a lot of fire wood.