Santa Story

Julie, my college roommate who watches Ander during the week, shared a funny Santa story with me. One morning, Ander was in the high chair with her two children, Bethany, 5, and Jacob, 7, eating cereal. She left for a moment and when she was gone, Ander began screaming. Not just a whiny scream, but "bloody murder" scream. She rushed into the room to see what had happened, thinking his high chair had tipped or that something horrible had happened. There were Bethany and Jacob, their eyes wide open with worry and fear and Jacob at the edge of tears. Julie asked "What happened?!" Jacob looked at her and said, "I just put on my Santa hat and said, 'Ho, Ho, Ho.'"

Apparently, Santa is not a big hit with Ander this first year.

Giving Thanks in the Alamo desert

A nice photo of the beautiful young lady... taken at Lake Alamo where we spent our Thanksgiving. The eight families joining us all brought dishes and dinner was a delicious affair with turkeys, prime rib, ham, side dishes galore and plenty of pie. That was on top of all the snacking that happened before dinner. We took turns riding quads and going on longer rides in the dune buggies and Jeeps. Or you could go down to the lake and fish, or just hang out at camp napping or hanging out at the campfire, which is what Laurie is doing in this photo.


Shane took out his dirt bike and gave it a proper introduction to the desert. Until then, he had ridden it only on asphalt. It was a bit squirrely with road tires, and he needs to get some knobbies to help it out a bit, but he had a big grin on his face after returning from his ride.

I stuck close to camp and Ander, who was a bit clingy in the new environment. Shane took this photo of us sitting near the campfire also.

It's chilly here...

We've had a wonderful winter storm come through, giving us much needed rain over the past 5 days and giving us some chilly temps. We're keeping Ander warm with a couple of hats...

Teaching the little man how to skateboard

Ander came across Laurie's skateboard and kept pushing it from one end of the house to the other end, "walking" on his knees with his little hands on the surface. Laurie decided to help him out a bit and put him on it.