Christmas In Lovells

Shortest.Hiatus.Ever.

Alright. Perhaps I was too hasty putting the blog on hiatus for a week.
But I'm back, with pics from Lovells coming up soon.

See You In 2008

The blog is on hiatus until 2008.
See you all next year!

"waving goodbye, I'm not saying hello"

Jack 'n Jill

Debbie's Maid of Honor Jill visited us today. We had set up a Saturday hang out back when there wasn't any snow but the sudden arrival of our Christmas travels rendered that visit moot. So we bumped it back a day and today, twenty minutes after we got home, Jill and her Dad popped in for a visit.
Jill hadn't visited us since November, then we were a few weeks away from the first ultrasound so all we knew was that Debbie was pregnant. We had also just gotten Toffee, so Jill saw that extra special cuteness up close.
This was the first time we had seen Jill since the wedding, and the first time she met Jack.
Debbie grabbed the camera, I made a Jack and Jill joke and it went downhill from there.


In this pic and out of focus Jack shows Jill his variation of Charo's Cuchi-Cuchi dance.

In this next series of photos we see Jack very desperately trying to get his hands on Mr.Pollock's class ring. I'm very proud of my boy for taking on a 6'7" man. His efforts were unsuccessful but I gotta give the kid credit for spunk.

"Christmas" in East Lansing

For the place settings on the table, Debbie initially asked me to find the "meanings" behind our individual names. 70% of them had something to do with Yaweh and two had to do with Bees. She then asked me to draw little pictures, like I used to do, of all the people at the dinner. So I did. Here are a few of them.
Jack as Charlie Brown. Felt right since we have had that Christmas special on a loop for a few weeks.

Our absent family member as an elf.

Me, as the Grinch. Stop laughing.

Debbie as a Tomte, which is Scandinavian.

A sideways glance at Mrs.Claus, I don't think I need to say who this is for.

And Dad as the Scandinavian traditional Yule Goat