January 2010

The year has started out great. We rang in the New Year with our good friends the Davila's. Our kids had a blast playing with their kids and we played cards with the grown ups until way too late at night. We had our traditional fondue and cuddled with Christina's new nephew. New Year's Day we feasted at Nana and Papa's house. Then we set up a tent in the living room of our house, made a camp fire in the fireplace, and roasted marshmallows for our first ever official New Year's Day Cousin Camp. It was a blast and will probably become an annual event;) Taylor's symphonic band played the National Anthem and the Canadian National Anthem at a Texas Stars hockey game. Nana, Papa, Grandma, DiDi, Collin, Trisha, Fringos, Mitchell, and our family all went to watch. It was super fun! The same weekend we all got to go to the Shrine Circus. Kailey loved riding the elephant! And the boys were amazed at the motorcycles on tightropes! We ended the month with an educational field trip to the Texas Memorial Museum. It's a museum of Natural Science with amazing dinosaurs. Our home school group also had a good opportunity to discuss "theory" in the "evolution room" that is featured there right now. Very interesting. With such a busy, but fun month, I'm excited for the rest of 2010!