Lee's Programming Prodigy

I went to run some errands yesterday while Makenzie was asleep and this is what I found when I walked in the door. Makenzie has always loved to play with the computer keyboard so Lee found his old palm pilot keyboard and set her up with her own little work stations. It has always been Lee's dream to "have his girls watch him program." Which I am convinced could be a form of torture... but Makenzie is more than willing to program along side her daddy as long as she's got the proper tools. Lee calls this game "help daddy work time." I like this game it entertains both Lee and Makenzie, what more could I ask for.

The Longest day EVER!

Have you ever felt like your day might never end, that was today for me. The endless day. In fact today I was so bored I thought I was going to die. I played with Makenzie like usual, I watched 13 episodes of The Office, and that was after I did everything on my to do list, even the stuff you write down but never actually do, yeah I did that stuff. I left the house once to check the mail, but since Lee had the car today I couldn't even make up any excuse to go buy something at Target. Then when I thought it was finally going to end, Lee came home, ate and then left to play basketball. So I had about 2 more hours by myself to kill, but I didn't have anything to do. So now I blog, at least that may pass 10 more minutes. Withouth Dundler Mifflin today, I might not have made it. Anyone else have the longest day ever?

Sledding

So it doesn't snow around here much and it did yesterday and it was AWESOME! We got all decked out and went down a little hill in our complex with some friends. Makenzie didn't mind watching but when Lee took her down she wasn't so sure about that. This was her reaction. Lee also took the wheels off of his skateboard so that he could snowboard down the hill which acutally worked suprisingly well. Lee and I did a few runs ourself, we were so sucessful in getting speed on one run that we went right off the hill and into the parking lot. It was good times.

Our trip to DC

We spent New Years Eve in DC. We got there right when the sun was going down, it was so beautiful, my pictures do it no justice. We walked around the mall which is deceptively large by the way. Don't be fooled by appearances. You better be committed if you want to walk from the Capitol to the WA monument. Then we went and saw the National Christmas tree. I've seen better trees. But it was fun to see everything. Then we came home and watched Harry Potter, and was so tired so I tried to get Lee to go to bed with me before midnight. He didn't want to but agreed. He checked his clock every 2 minutes until midnight and kept telling me.. only 8 more minutes, only 6 more minutes. So I didn't even get to sleep. But it was a fun New Year.

A Solo Christmas

Lee and I had a great Christmas together. This was our first time being completely alone. The only family we had was Makenzie. It was actually really awesome. We spent a lot of time with friends and I found it easier to reflect on the true meaning of Christmas. Plus it was pretty relaxing. We got to do a lot of fun things. Christmas eve we spent the night with the Ludlows and the Johansons. We ate steak and acted out the nativity with everyone's kids. I never did that growing up so that was special for me. Then we read Makenzie the Night before Christmas and she loved it.
Makenzie loved everything about Christmas, the gifts, the paper, the boxes, the tree. I think she wishes everyday could be Christmas. So do I sometimes. It took us most of the day to open presents and then Makenzie took a 3 hour nap. Then we spent Christmas dinner with the Yoders and Arangos. It was fun. We celebrated a spanglish Christmas. We played do you love your neighbor in Spanish. It was interesting.

DC Temple Lights

Lee, Makenzie and I took a trip up to the DC Temple to see the lights. They were incredible. Too bad I don't know how to take pictures so they aren't the best quality. But it was a lot of fun. There were soooooo many people which was cool because unlike UT I thought, huh a lot of these people probably aren't members of the church. My favorite part was while we were watching the live nativity a little boy turns to his mom and said "mom is that really Jesus?" I loved it.

Neil Diamond Christmas Party

Our good friends threw a Neil Diamond sweater party. Lee and I were more than excited to purchase ugly DI sweaters in order to attend this great event. So we went to a thrift store here and found a few little numbers we thought appropriate. Lee even bought a red turtle neck to go under his green sweater. So we put them on and took some pictures and checked each other out and came to the conclusion we didn't look that bad, in fact we looked good. That isn't supposed to happen wearing an ugly sweater. We thought it was funny. I have decided to add my ugly sweater to my repertoire of winter clothes.