Crunch Time

Justin turns in a draft of his dissertation on Friday.  To say the adults in this house, one in particular, are maxed out would be a slight understatement at the moment.  He's quite literally working around the clock.  After Friday, it will be up to the powers that be to determine the next step.  We're hopeful the outcome will be to defend this sooner than later, but again, it's not up to us.  If you're the praying kind and would like to send a few off on our behalf, we'd appreciate it.

I am due to write a recap of 2014 and divulge some hopes and dreams for 2015 on the blog.  I can't really see the forest through the trees right now, so I'll save all that for another day.  Right now there's another thrilling dissertation chapter waiting in my DropBox for a quick review.

Christmas 2014

Well, hello and happy new year!  Here's a recap of our lovely Christmas holiday:

 We had our friends over for cookie decorating on Christmas Eve.

 We went to church together.  Morgan was a perfect angel during the service despite what this picture shows.  (:

 We came home and had a Christmas Eve pizza party.  Delicious!

 Christmas presents arrived while the small ones slept.

 And finally, long-awaited Christmas morning arrived.

 Lego building commenced right after a waffle breakfast.

 We enjoyed good conversation with our special visitors.

 The boys used their new sleds to haul around their Christmas loot.

 We played games and the big boys had some fun with the Wii in the evenings.

 It snowed Christmas afternoon, so the new sleds were broken in.

 Here we are...another Christmas and another year blessed.

 The snow continued so we enjoyed winter walks and a trip to the sledding hill.

 We did puzzles...I can't really say that wine helped my puzzling skills all that much.  (:

The boys did some programming with Uncle Jared on their new Raspberry Pi computer they got from Daddy.

It was a wonderful holiday and we were very thankful to share it with family!