Over New Year's week, we went to the cabin in Tahoe with my parents and grandparents. We enjoyed the snow and the time we had relaxing together!

Each day, we took a trek down to the (frozen over) creek where there's a great sledding hill. On the way the first time, Papa gave Jack a ride on the icy street.


If you know Jack, you'll expect that he wasn't content to sit and be pulled for very long.


Jack loved sledding with "Da", learning the exclamation "Whoo!", which he used after each run and when he saw other sledders take a ride!


Cute Buddy!

While we were in Tahoe, we learned that the bank wants to close on our house by January 9, when we'll be in North Carolina for Jeremy and Julie's wedding, so our loan officer is scrambling to get things together by Tuesday the 6th before we leave. This is going to be a VERY busy month!

Christmas '08

The Widmans' Christmas was wonderful, filled with fun and family... we spent Christmas Eve at Papa and Neenee Brown's house, buried in presents (lots of presents and lots of big presents), and Christmas day at my parents', aka Pa and Grammie's, with Grandma Carol also there.

At Papa and Neenee's house, Jack was very interested in the balls on the tree, since our tree held no balls within his reach. Of course, several of the balls ended up on the floor, with hooks still on the tree.

On Christmas morning, he forgot this was on his head for a while.

Papa and Neenee Dean gave Jack a tricycle, which he enjoyed in Pa and Grammie's house on Christmas day (see his excellent parade wave technique), but then was put away for a while, and should be just about perfect for him when the weather warms up in the spring. Thanks, Papa and Neenee!


Hope everyone's Christmas was great!