Christmas pictures

Here is our official Christmas 2009 family picture. I wanted to get them done a little more professionally but we kind of ran out of time so we just took it at home. And this year I really wanted to try making some Christmas cards, so that took quite some time since I made each one different. They're not the greatest, but it gave me a little something to work on and I at least enjoyed making them. Here's some of the cards I made for family and a few friends.

But this is Jacob's first Christmas so here are all my attempts to get some cute christmas pictures of him.

Thanksgiving break

Thanksgiving was a nice relaxing week for us. Luke had been out of town on business trips the two business weeks before and so it was nice for him to then have a week off. The best part though was the Friday before Thanksgiving, soon after Luke got home from Omaha, he found out that he passed his fourth and final CPA exam! We were soo excited! Luke has been working on these tests for a year and a half and we are both happy they're over. Luke has promised that our lives will change as soon as these tests were over- and so far, he's actually been right! We've had a lot more time to do things together and he hasn't had to stay late at work, and so it's been nice having him around more- especially for the holidays!

So we didn't do anything special for Thanksgiving, we really didn't do much all week but just relax at home! But we did have a nice Thanksgiving dinner in our new house with just the 3 of us, and that was all we wanted. Thanksgiving day was gorgeous outside too so we played a little in the backyard during the day, and had our dinner later at night.

playing in the backyard

Jacob crawling around the kitchen while we worked on dinner

clapping for the camera

pumpkin pie cooling in the window :)

our thanksgiving dinner!

we had a ham roast instead of turkey- doesn't it like it's straight out of Green Eggs and Ham?!

we did have turkey- turkey thighs, I felt like a caveman eating them though

Jacob trying some homemade rolls

Catching Up!

So for the record I haven't just been a lazy blogger lately- my computer crashed around New Years (great way to start the year...) and so I wasn't able to update, especially since I couldn't access any of my pictures. But the good news is, after a month of being without my laptop- I was finally able to find someone locally who was able to replace my hard drive for a good price. So I did lose some of my stuff again, but not too much- thank goodness for picasa web albums! Maybe this time I'll learn to actually back up all my stuff! But at least my laptop is like new again.

So it's been driving my crazy because even though I'm not very good at blogging too often I hate feeling way behind- then it's no fun anymore! But I want to get caught up with all the holidays, and my trip to maryland and everything we've been up to lately- so here goes!