Wednesday, January 25, 2012

Christmas 2011







The Joys of Christmas

What a fun time we had while we were home for Christmas this year! All the songs that expressed their desire to be "home for Christmas" took on a whole new meaning this year. We stayed with my lovely parents, and were able to hang out with sisters, and brother in laws Kaj's aunts and uncles and cousins. We were also lucky enough to spend a little time with Sam's family also. Kaj had a great time, and really got used to dancing for Grampy and being the entertainment during tubby time.

We also welcomed home a long time coming brother/uncle Sambo. My brother is home from his mission, and it was very fun and crazy seeing him. I was glad to stick around longer to hang with him for a couple weeks, and Kaj was happy too. Before Sam even realized what being an uncle was all about Kaj was already pal-ing around with him. Not pictured was a one on one game of  basketball between them, and of course...Kaj won. It was cute and fun to watch brother Sam life Kaj up to let him dunk the ball.

We saw Brian Regan as a family to wrap up the time together, and it was very funny as usual. We are very grateful for the greatness of family.

not quite sure what to think of ole St. Nick


Guitar hero himself, ha!

sisters christmas 2011


The Slims christmas 2011
We are happy to also be back at home together with Sam. We missed him. Something about being under the same roof again... love it.
The fam

Monday, January 9, 2012

Sting rays, and no Santa Claus?

I have been on vacation for a pretty long time now, and it is still going strong. I do not have access to my own camera right now, so I inserted this last year's picture to represent the Christmas season that I'm not forgetting, but will post officially about when I have the Santa and holiday pictures that I have. I hope everyone had the best Christmas and New Years!
My sisters and I decided to go to the Aquarium with all the babies. Kaj did seem to like the "ish" and the company was lovely.

We did go ahead a touch the sting rays. And made the official decision that octopus... "i" ha! are, indeed, aliens. Look at them...they are aliens.