Welcome Back: Part Two

I hope everyone had a great holiday. We have been enjoying having my Mom visit.

This was her first Swissmas ( Swiss Christmas ). Here they like to celebrate on Christmas Eve so we made a cheese fondue dinner for everyone.

On Christmas we had the usual U.S. morning festivities of gathering under the tree to see what Santa brought. Ian really enjoyed the ripping of the paper more this year. It was hard work to keep him from ripping our gifts open..haha. Santy brought him a Kitchen and Lego Train set. From his grandparents a boy doll, build your own puppet, sweater, wood train toy, and stuffed lamb. He also got a nice cough…so we are working on getting that gone.

Stanta also treated me well; blessed me with a Macro 100mm f 2.8 Canon lens. I had to pop that sucker right on the camera to finish our Christmas pictures and let me tell you what..the macro is just AMAZING! My parents also got us a mini USB video camera, HD quality. I will have to get our video up soon. Thank you all for everything you have done for our family and lets not forget the reason for the Season :).

My mom wth the Flip camera.

I will finish you out with pictures of the past few days.

The rest of the pictures are located on flickr.

Welcome to all of my new readers!

Family is Doing Well

I hope you all have been having a good week. Everything has been good here, well pretty much. The Husband came down with a cold but finally symptoms are alleviating. Ian is being as rambunctious as ever. This child seems to have the energy of 15 adults. I am chasing from one end of the room to the other. At least he is into working with me now. When he sees me doing some housework he tries his best to help. He actually can vacuum pretty decent. As far as doing the dishes, not too shabby, but if I don’t pick up what he is handing me fast he will try to find a place for it to go. Haha. It is nice to have a little helper. I look forward to the day when his help will actually get a lot done :)

Ian's stack of pillows on Daddy, notice the stolen Daddy sock

So Christmas shopping time is in full bloom and I have no idea what to get everyone. It is really hard when you ask them and all you get is, “I don’t need anything” then they ask you what you want. Grrr! I am looking forward to shopping for Ian. We are thinking of getting him two bigger things this year..a lego set to add to his collection and a play kitchen or play car garage. What are you all getting your kiddos this year or hey even your in-laws or parents?