Apparently its time for your monthly update from us. In the last month its been a bit quiet here. Well, except for the fact that Damion has spent a little over two weeks traveling for work and the most recent trip was 8 days. During that time it was less than quiet here.  A quick warning, this is a bit long but informative.

This morning I was looking at the websites of some friends and noticed that most of them hadn’t updated their sites for several weeks and was a bit bummed by this.  While we are all Facebook friends and get updates that way and through phone calls, it is still nice reading what they want to share with the world at large.  That’s when I looked at our website and realized we hadn’t updated our site in a while.  So, “Hi Kettle, I’m Pot!”

Last weekend started like I'm sure everybody's did.  We purchased a new range and fridge and then proceeded to head home, put the kids to bed and started to take our kitchen apart.  What?  That's not what you did?  Oh...well, you have no idea all the extra sleep you got then.  Because I don't want to bore you twice with all the details, go on over to the January 2011 gallery folder and see and read what happened in the course of 53 hours at our house.  I realized i didn't mention the fact that we had some super helpers.  Adam & Nicole gave up a bunch of their weekend to spend it with us.  Damion & Adam took instructions from our foreman Anna while Jack joined Nicole and I running some errands and picking up meals.  Thanks for the extra hands!

We hope that you all had a very Merry Christmas!

We recently returned from our tour of the East Coast.  It actually all started as attending and celebrating Peter’s (Jess’ brother) doctoral graduation from NC State.  Congratulations Peter on that wonderful achievement and best of luck at the new job!

While we were in Raleigh with all of the family we celebrated Christmas.  The apparently popular present was Jack’s Play-Doh.  When you’re done reading all of my ramblings you’ll see in the gallery that everybody in attendance played with the play-doh that evening.  It was a fun night that resulted in Anna proclaiming several times that night and during the rest of our trip, “That was the funniest Christmas ever!”

I think now is the right time to mention that we weren’t sure who was going to make this trip because the days preceding our departure Anna had a low fever, no appetite, slight breathing problems, a nasty cough and didn’t go to preschool for two days.  Why mention that now?  Well Saturday after the graduation celebration Jack & I started to not feel good.  But what did we do?  We decided to extend our trip!