Biggest Bloggin Slacker

I'm just going to come right out and say it. This last month I have been the biggest slacker on my blog. I can blame it on how busy we have been and I could blame it on the weather, but to be completely honest, I've just been sick of being on the computer. So this last month I have thought up every excuse not to blog. My other excuse is not because I am lazy, but because something is wrong with our computer and I have not been able to download any of my pictures off of my camera to my computer. We are dreading spending the money to get it fixed so you'll just have to read my stories for now, no pictures. At least until we win the lottery! Just kidding. Who are ya kiddin', we can't afford lottery tickets!

So as for December, Steve finally finished up his surgery rotation and we were all grateful for that. I think the kids wondered if their dad would ever be home long enough to play, or have the energy too. Cannon was out of school for a couple of weeks for Christmas vacation and spent most of his time outside building forts in the snow pile next to our house. Karlee begs to go outside with Cannon and she actually stays outside as long as Cannon. He is a good big brother and keeps a close eye on her.

Christmas was great! We had a wonderful Christmas Eve dinner with some friends. Steve was craving Prime Rib, and to our surprise they had it for dinner! I still think that was Steve's highlight. Then after dinner we picked up the missionaries and delivered some surprise boxes. We had a lot of fun carrying on the tradition from Idaho.
Christmas morning was a blast. Cannon woke up at 4:30 and we told him to go back to bed. An hour later, he was back in our room asking again. We finally gave in and let him wake up Karlee. The kids were so excited and had a fun time opening up presents.
The missionaries came back over for breakfast and we fixed them crepes with a variety of mix ins. We fixed Alfredo sauce with chicken, steak, bacon, mushrooms, onions, cheese, or for the sweeter tooth blackberries, sugar, strawberry peach jam, etc. It was awesome. We stuffed ourselves to the point we couldn't move. The rest of the day we spent playing Wii and other games and cooking Christmas dinner. Both of our missionaries were from Utah so we decided to fix them Cafe Rio burritos. And later that night the missionaries took turns talking on the phone to there parents. It was a great Christmas and we had tons of fun spending time with friends.
New Year's Eve we didn't stay up for the new year but decided we should at least celebrate a little. So we had the Olson's over and ate pizza and played the Wii. I never knew how much fun those things are. Especially because they can be played by more than one person.
This last week Cannon kind of started back to school but after one day, he became really sick and spent the majority of the week at home. Steve finished up another rotation in anesthesia and is looking forward to radiology next.

On the other hand, the kids and I are completely excited to be taking a sunny, warm, palmy vacation in the great state of Idaho. Only one week left! YEAH!