National Cathedral

Stepping up from parking garage on Xmas eve to the National Cathedral

Grace, MB, & Brock.

Ornate entry to the church.

ESPN Zone

Grace rides her ESPN dime store pony 6 and a half furlongs to last place and whiped him the entire way. Poor virtual pony must have had crossed eyes becuase he kept riding into the rail.

Grace was a pro at virtual Water skiing doing flips and bellinies. Her triple lutz and the fliperoo is the best move ever.

Oh Snap! It's Miss Stella. She's the bomb-diggity.

Defenders United

It was love at first site...the Dental Defender meets the Inflatable Defender.

Brock and the Spice Girls rock out to some Beatles tunes.

HOLIDAY CONCERT

Brock is in the Rolling Valley band for 5th and 6th graders. He plays the trombone and was very excited to be in the Holiday (Christmas) concert. Mr B is in the far back in the middle.

This song is knows as the "Holiday Medley":

Cardiff Castle:

Jingle, Jingle, Jingle:

Shark Attack...

Kart Wheel Girl

Grace perfects her Kart wheel:

Joyfull Trombone Noises...BTL & ATL

Before Trombone lessons:

After Trombone lessons:

More Joyfull noises:

Xmas Carol

We sat in the balcony and enjoyed the big organ and Christmas carols.

CLICK ARROW BELOW TO HEAR XMAS CAROL

Angels We Have Heard On High

Daisy fears the fro

Daisy took one look at the 7 foot shot block blow up dummie and quckly retreated.

Grand Minister

4 Vs pose after the service above and the VIP (very important Priest) below...

Note the VIP above on the right has a Grand Poo-Ba septer and big Pope like headress

Xmas Day

Santa brought Brock a 7 foot life sized practice blow up defender. It definitely scared him when he came down stairs.

Grace immediately enjoyed her Nintendo DSI.

Daisy opened up some dog cookies and wanted to open up all the other gifts too.

Snow Sledding

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Neiborhood kids having some fun sledding time on "death hill" behind our house.

Breaking Blizzard Giant Storm Snowtravaganza!!!

We got dumped on by Mother Nature with approx 20 inches of powder. Kids have sledded and played games while Mike and Mary Beth have shovelled snow for two days in a row. Kids are off now for the rest of the week. Yippee says Grace who also declared she is just going to wear jammies until Christmas Eve. Here is a shot of the front yard with some lights on the house . Some of the lights are buried under the snow.

Front Yard Snow

We left a path for the mail man in case he ever comes

Grace and Liz play on mountain of snow

Snow Angels

Catch a snow angel with some snow.

Got some in between my britches

Fire

Mike chopped down a tree and built his first fire to warm up after diggin out 20 inches of snow

Porch Snow

Snow Prince & Princess

Look at me Im a snow Princess!

Go ahead, make my day

Cute lab pup

The kids took somebody's new Lab pup for a run; he did not seem to mind it except someone almost rolled on him at the bottom

Who's more cute...me or the boy?

Sister Sled

Grace poses before her sled run

Grace and Liz ride down togather

Aren't I cute?

Sleding downhhill

Big Snow and Big Sled Train at the top of our hill in the back

Brock and neighborhood kid

Mike at bottom ready to dig any kids out that end up in a snow bank.