Another Christmas in the Books

First things first, here is an updated link to the Dec photos that now contain Christmas photos...

Dec 2010

Well Christmas was a little crazy as always but Megan, Finn, and I had a great time with my family in NC. The trip started out a little hectic when Finn didn't sleep well the night before we planned to leave and it looked like his ear infection was back. We paid a visit to the doctor before we left and he did have an outer ear infection. So with medicine in hand we headed out the door a few hours later than we planned. Of course, those couple of hours cost us dearly with additional traffic and we didn't arrive at my parents' house until well after Finn's bedtime.

But the next days were a blast with family and friends. We ate way too much and laughed so hard playing Wii that we should have woken up Finn, but luckily we didn't. It was really nice to get to see my family and let them see how much Finn had grown. Finn didn't hesitate during this trip. He jumped right into the mix and was running around asking for Pawpaw and Mawmaw the first day.

We had a white Christmas when it started snowing in the afternoon and finished Sunday morning with around 4 to 5 inches. We took Finn out in the snow and did some sledding. He is still a little unsure about the snow.

So, of course, Finn instinctively knows when we are leaving and had a rough night of sleeping before we left Monday morning. A little tired and happy to be home we made it through our doors last night, gave the boy a bath, unpacked, and went to bed.

I have a few days to get back in the swing of things before heading back to work, unfortunately Megan heads back tomorrow. We both hope you all had a wonderful Christmas.

Love,

Hud

Pictures and Christmas

Megan is right...we have been way behind on updating, so here are a couple links for pictures. Since it has been awhile I will put a couple of links to the different albums, but of course once you take one link there you can get to them all. Just trying to help those out there that might be technology challenged (Don't worry, I won't mention any names)...

Here are pictures form Sept - Nov...

Sept - Nov 2010

And here are pics form Dec...

Dec 2010

We are almost ready for Christmas. Only a few more presents and then we are good to go. It has been really hectic and I haven't felt quite in the Christmas spirit until just a day or so ago. Now with work done for a couple of weeks and just being able to focus on spending time with Megan and Finn it does feel a little more like Christmas.

Not to go all sentimental on everyone, but my dad always reminds me to enjoy the time that I have now and not to always spend my time waiting for the next thing to happen. Enjoy what is right in front of you, the present is only here for a short time. So for those I don't see this holiday enjoy the time with your family and friends and I wish you a Happy Holidays.

Hud

Christmas is almost here!

Where has the time gone? Hud and I looked at each other and asked, where did November go? And now, it's halfway through December. We've been busy getting ready for Christmas. The house is decorated. The gifts are purchased, although nothing is wrapped. The cards are in the mail. Slowly but surely everything is coming together.

Finn and I woke up to find snow on the ground this morning. Not quite enough to play in, but enough to look pretty. I'm not mentally prepared for winter, I keep expecting it to get warm again. Finley keeps asking to go outside to eat his banana (which he did one afternoon several months ago, and now asks to do every time he eats a banana) and we have to tell him it is too cold to eat outside. Unless we go somewhere tropical it will be a few months before he can eat his banana outside again.

Hud has pictures ready to put up from the last several months, and we'll try to be better about posting.

Love, Megan