Hippo Gnu Deer
Yikes! I haven't updated this thing in over two months...

So Thanksgiving and Christmas were spent in S.F. as usual. Scooter & Fluffy had a great time playing with their cousins, which is really nice, because I never got to play with cousins when I was growing up, even though there were four of them just down the street.

We spent a few days in Tahoe! It was great! On the way up, when we started to see snow along the roadside and in the mountains, Scooter commented, "If I could live here, that would be the life!"

We played in a snow park the first day, sledding down a big hill and throwing snow at each other. The next two days, we skied. Each kid spent a day in lessons, then we all skied together. It was Scooter's second time and Fluffy's first, and both of them did great! I have to give Fluffy a lot of credit; it was snowing pretty hard by the time we pulled her out of her lesson, but she insisted on going on the lifts and skied all the way down with us. She fell a few times, but got right back up and continued on her way.

Santa found us in San Jose and delivered a lot of presents. Not too many clothes this year, just the way the kids like it. Thanks to Aunties Laurie & Lisa, who got them exactly what they wanted. Wink-wink! (You can pay me later! Ha ha!)

New Year's Day was pretty mellow. We went to the movies, cooked a roast beef that was way too rare, even by my standards.

Now it's business as usual. Hopefully I'll update this more often.