Slacking off

I have been a slacker for blogging about our long trek over the holidays. This year we decided to drive to visit both of our families. Doing this made it possible for us to take Sadie and Sylvester along. We spent the first 5 days, including Christmas, in Denver. It was full of traditions like baking, Christmas Eve dinner, and shoveling snow. Then there were the new things like learning to line dance from Francie, going to an arcade on Christmas Eve, and having a BB gun shooting contest.


After the first shot at plywood where the BB bounced off and hit my dad in the chin, things were reconfigured and we aimed at our targets on a cardboard box.


Then we headed back east to Kansas City and spent several days there. We had family pictures taken, visited Kemper Museum of Modern Art, baked, made gingerbread houses, and had a fun New Years Eve Crab fest and party.


For the New Years Eve party I painted a scene with four snow people and we cut hole out for peoples head. It was a fun project.


Sadie and Sylvester did very well with the three days in the car each way. Sadie was a little on edge with Will (just in case he snuck up on her) and Sylvester enjoyed having someone at his level. We had a lot of fun seeing everyone.

PB love

Whenever we finish a jar of peanut butter we share it with Sadie and Sylvester. Sylvester does much better with the lid (a little extra smear of PB in it). Sadie on the otherhand will take the jar and go to town. She holds it tightly between her feet and sticks her tongue in as far as it can possibly go, trying to get every last bit. She will shove her nose deep in until the jar is stuck, but she doesn't care. Whatever it takes to get the good stuff.