Hello Again

It's officially been too long since we've posted anything and the holidays have come and gone. December and the first part of January actually seemed like it lasted forever for me personally. The sickness that everyone seems to have here in Portland caught up with Chris first and then lingered for quite a while with me. The past week is the first week I've truly felt 100%.

The biggest news and best present we could have received was from my brother Peter who brought to us a new member of our family. Peter got married on December 26h to a wonderful woman named Chie (pronounced Chee-a - long a).Here is a photo of the happy newlyweds!



So first some Christmas photos:

This was our tree with the amazing tree skirt that my mom made us for Christmas (we exchanged gifts while we were home for Thanksgiving). As you can see Katana enjoyed a few presents underneath the tree...



These are our little families stockings...the littlest one is for our turtle Red - as soon as his new filter system comes in we'll take an updated photo of him (one of the power outages killed his old one).



Our friends George and Rusty brought over a little present so we could turn Katana into one of Santa's helpers!



And this somewhat blurry photo I just love...mostly because my love is in it :-)




Here is the face you get when you put peanut butter on your dog's nose - we had a slow Friday night a week ago!



And this photo is just too cute!



Hope everyone is staying warm in these freezing temps that have seemed to grip much of the northern part of the United States!