"Is your dog mean?"

My 2 week vacation has come to an end. (tear). Let me re-cap some of the highlights. The vacation started off with a quick trip to the beach with Rebes and Jackie(the dog). I still start laughing when I think about the sound that came out of Becca as she body-slammed Jackie into the sand as Cowboy (the dog) came leaping up to say "hi" to Jackie. "Is your dog mean?" I think I stopped laughing long enough to answer the question. "YES! She's super mean!"

Suzanne graduated college! That was fun. Wait, no it wasn't. I had the joy of attending her graduation with my parents. Hanging out with my parents is equivalent to teaching Special Ed. My mom and dad decided to save seats for some friends. So they sit on polar opposites of one row and decide to yell to each other across the entire row(about 17 seats across). My dad is hard of hearing and my mom doesn't pay attention to anything. So they had a 12 minute argument about how many seats they should save. I finally had to communicate to both of them that we only needed 5 seats saved. Once the ceremony started, my mom quickly started her Sudoku and my dad fell fast asleep.

Our trip to Jamestown was not only educational, but also...... umm no, actually it was just educational. Pocahontas did not enjoy the photo shoot nearly as much as Becca and I did. We watched some people "blow glass", and trust me the "blow" jokes did not get old.

One night we went ice skating at an outdoor rink. Why is it still so funny when someone falls down? It was really hard not to laugh at the little kids even when they were crying. Good times.
Suzanne---send me the freakin' pictures already!

Family Game Night. HA! Ok, let's see how I can recap this night of ridiculousness. We played "Scene It: TV edition". First of all, all the TV clips were all from TV shows from before I was born. My mom knew every single question because TV is her best friend. But she couldn't tell the difference between a bulldog and a boxer. Becca and I got bored pretty much as soon as we started playing and just shouted out absurd answers the entire time as a way to entertain ourselves. She actually got one question right when she yelled out "Battlestar Galactica!!" as a joke. I won the game, but I have no idea how I did this.

I can't decide on my favorite moment of the Christmas Eve Service. It's either when someone pulled the fire alarm or my dad's slide show of the Nativity Story for the children's sermon. If you haven't met my dad, you might not appreciate this as much. The slide show starts out with up-to-date photographs of present-day Bethlehem with beautiful landscapes and shepherds and ended with a blurry picture of Mary, Joseph and baby Jesus made of plastic that looked vaguely like something I had when I was about 4 years old. Freakin' hilarious. If I can get a copy of that slide show, I will definitely post it.

Movie Reviews:
Blood Diamond-- Great movie!! I really really liked this movie and I never want to own a diamond EVER!
Eragon-- cute kid movie
Happy Feet---oh wait, I didn't get to see that! Thanks, Reba. It's all your fault.


I hope everyone had a great Christmas with their family! I got some really rad gifts that I am so excited about! I really don't have any resolutions yet or anything. But if you check out Reba's blog, she's got some really great ones that I'll probably just copy.