post-christmas

Thankfully, Christmas has come and gone, and we managed to get through it fairly unscathed.

Our Christmas Eve was lovely, as Grandma Marty came over with Kelly & Eric for brunch, with Bloody Mary's and Erin's lovely frittatas and potato pancakes. Christmas Day was at our home this year, and Grandpa Bill and Grandma Janet came over to spend the day. We devoured another delicious ribeye roast, Erin's amazing collard greens and Kelly's awesome creamed peas. Kai ate like a king, and often.

Kai did receive an entire wave of new toys this year, and our house is beginning to look like one of those disheveled toy stores in the mall...

And as if that wasn't enough, we're off to Vero Beach for two nights. Isaac has a basketball tournament down there this weekend, and Erin, Kai, and I are going to go stay with my dear friend Ashley (a frequent commenter on this blog) who just had her second daughter about two weeks ago. And her first daughter, Caedyn, is turning the big ONE today, so we're going to meet her family. I'm really excited, as I haven't seen Ashley in years, and we have both grown exponentially since the last time we hung out. We're both all grown up now, aren't we? Or aren't we?

Also, my laptop is experiencing another challenge - it does not want to charge right now. This may or may not be related to the infamous coffee incident from eight months ago. Hopefully it won't be too expensive to fix, or I may have to get a second job to buy a replacement.