Yes, we’ve watched Mary Poppins a few times in the last few days, thus the reference. What a great Christmas day and week. Santa did find his way to our house, somehow. The girls were excited (including Julie).
We stayed home most of the day this year. Julie did the turkey dinner and I did the fluffy mashed potatoes. My employer sent down a 20 pound turkey for dinner, so we cooked that up right good. We found out that those birds take some time to defrost. Mental note for the next time, I guess. We had worried that it wouldn’t be ready in time, but everything turned out great.
Wii got a we for Christmas this year. I am anticipating it taking the place of regular workouts for us.
We spent Christmas night over at the Mullins’ house, playing more Wii, Mad Gab, spoons, and various unsundry card games. They have taken pity on us since we’ve been back. Hopefully the charity continues.
Since Christmas we’ve been to: a movie (The Water Horse), Michael and Alison’s house, Castles and Coasters (I think that the employer sanctions law is having an effect on the demographics there), and Aaron and Krisanne’s house. A fun week. I think a new rivalry has been born with the pounding defeats that Ali and I inflicted on Julie and Michael. Though I guess that means it’s not much of a rivalry since we continually crushed them.
Ali and Michael have been watching Ali’s sister’s dog, Bella. Gwenyth and the girls had a great time giving her fits (both the dog and Ali, actually). We’ll get a puppy one of these days.
By the way, the television just said: “Metal detecting is fast-becoming one of America’s favorite activities. There’s never been a better time to start detecting.” That’s sign #74 that the apocalypse is upon us.
More pictures at Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/midder/
Happy New Year!
Julie and I whooped you guys! Good times and great Dancing!
You bet we did–ahhh yeahhh!
The legacy of marget and midder will live on in our hearts and minds forever. Let the haters (Mikey and Ju) say what they will… but Brian and I will continue to DDDDAAAANNNNCCCEEEE!!!!
:)Ali
Hey guys- sounds like you all know how to have a good time. It was fun to catch up on your family and the holiday fun and festivities you enjoyed. Great pictures as usual Julie. Brian, I still want Ryan to hook up with you when it’s conveinient to get some pictures up on our blog page. It’s more interesting to read and more fun to look at. Then maybe you could put a bug in Ryan’s ear about the sick color blue he has for our backgound right now.
Hi, my name is Maury and I promise I am not a stalker… just clicked on your site from Catherine’s and your wainscoating (sp?) caught my eye. My house won’t be done for quite a while, but, who did it for you? Thanks!
Maury
Hey Maury,
My brother-in-law, Dan helped install it & he’s great with wood working unfortunately they live in Prescott! ARe you in the valley?? He & Brian cranked it out in about 3 hours flat.