Happy New Year!

Our cute munchkins....more to come on our "photo shoot"

Happy belated New Year to you and yours!  I know I can hand out a ton of excuses on my lack of blogging lately and my promises to do our summer in pictures....but I am a slacker.  AND, I got a new camera from Santa and know how to download and take pictures/video with this thing.  I am not a techie, but have some serious issues with cameras that are not dummy proof.  So I got a new one and low and behold- I already got our Christmas and NYE downloaded!  Yipee!  And while I was looking for the cord to download, found all the cords for our old camera.  So hopefully can download some of the pics of this summer.  That is one of my resolutions, besides, get fit, not spend so much, have patience, the norms, but blog once a week.  And get up to date on the kids baby books.  But don't hold your breath!

The family

Uncle Jim wrangling the newbie

So I will begin my new year of blogging with how we spent our New Years.  We had family fly in on the 30th, hosted a party that night and packed up and headed  to Steamboat on the 31st.  It was very fun.  Granted the majority of us were in bed by 10 or 11 that night.  Oh well!  Big news though, Gavin went skiing for the first time!  What a way to start off the new year!  He had excellent balance, and said he liked it, but after a few too many tumbles he was done.  Which was fine, I was just glad he did it!  Thanks muchos to Aunt Jill and Uncle Jim- they were his teachers.  As as Gavin said, "Uncle Jim is a good teacher."   Here are some pics:

Gavin and Daddy about to hit the slopes

We then hit a different slope for some sledding.  Gavin was brave and went down by himself, it was great!  He would fly down and then haul his tube back up!  Sloan got into it too, but pretty much preferred tossing the football down the hill.  She is easy to please.

My next post will hopefully be Christmas and how good Santa was to us all!  Hope you had a wonderful holiday and a great start to the New Year!