Happy 2011!

I love these pictures! Such pretty Christmas houses and the kids look so pretty all dressed up and excited. I didn't take any pictures on New Years, but on New Year's eve, we went to our friends Val and Geoff's house for a pot luck and we all headed out around 11 to a nearby bar for a midnight toast. Its the first year in ages I actually went out to a bar on New Year's. Luckily we had a big group and the bar wasn't packed. They had great music and so we got in some dancing and made it home by 12:30. We meant to get up really early on New Year's Day to go XC skiing before the Rose Bowl, but we were a bit fuzzy so didn't make it out the door till later. We still got in a good ski up at Mt. Hood - TONS of snow and Carmen went crazy. She must have ran 10 times further than we skied. We stopped at this awesome little road side bar on the way home - it had a HUGE fire in the fireplace, really good food and the Rose Bowl on. So we got to watch the Badgers lose, booo. We just hung out next to the fire last night reading - we were exhausted. And today we're supposedly going to finish painting the kitchen. I'll post before and after pictures when its done! Cross your fingers - we're painting it a bright red.... I really really hope we like it!