Short Report of Friday, December 18th

in which this sweet sweet sweet little face

got Rudolph'd when he tripped coming down the back sidewalk

and this was about the closest I could get to see

the Z-kids' Christmas Concert . . .

sorry about the lame picture.

& no, I totally didn't take any video.

There are *A LOT* of music programs

@ our new school, which I love!

Sure missed Jon, who had been around Tue-Thu of last week,

but had to go back to school to give a final

on the very last day of finals too, of course!

But it sure makes for a very very very long day when

I had to wake poor little wounded E from his nap to go,

E was wrangled from the backpack carrier for ~1 hour,

& Z-kids performed almost @ the very end!

Z-kids did great though!

I'm so proud of them!

Zoe has new artwork

posted in her Artsonia Gallery.

Feel free to leave her any comments here.

Bernice & Jaxon Visit

my way cute & way pregnant sister Bernice & my nephew Jaxon came to visit!

they drove all the way from Cleveland OH to see us while Jack was doing finals

it had been about 2-1/2 years since we had seen each other--so sad!

the last time we made the trek out to UT (from TX) to visit was in 07

& she was pregnant with Jaxon & in the hospital (on a totally different medical issue)!

so glad we finally got to meet Jaxon & hope Bernice enjoyed meeting Eli

here's a quick rundown of what we did

Tue, Dec 1st--arrive PA

Wed, Dec 2nd--IKEA & Kohl's

Thu, Dec 3rd--dim sum in Chinatown (it was my first time driving downtown myself!)

Fri, Dec 4th--Assi & Target

Sat, Dec 5th--Michaels--it started snowing like crazy today!

Sun, Dec 6th--depart PA

here's a quick slideshow of some random pics
how sad that Bernice & I didn't manage to get in a single pic together!  :(

here are some links to food-related posts of the visit that I did over on my *new* food blog

menu

daa bin lou

Bernice is a great Mom & Jaxon is a very active boy,

check out this post on Bernice's blog for proof!  ;)

Jon took the vid

it sure was wonderful to have some family around

we really appreciate the effort/sacrifice that Bernice made to come visit

we should be returning the favor pretty soon for the arrival of baby girl Madsen!

Zane has new artwork

posted in his Artsonia Gallery.

Feel free to leave him any comments here.