Winter Fun!

Well, life hasn't been easy since we got home. Grace seems to think that she doesn't need much sleep. She actually is acting like an adult. She wakes up multiple times during the night and wakes up for good between 4-5:30am every day. I'm not kidding. She really hasn't slept past 5:45 even once. She is ready to go, "Eat ceweal" is the first thing she says almost every day. I need my sleep, so many days are full of conflict.

It also seems that we can't be healthy for more than a couple days. Between the 4 of us there have been colds, throw-ups and Montezuma's revenge (if you know what I mean). Oh, well, this is the life of being a parent I suppose. I keep telling myself, this too shall pass.

Tyler's birthday is tomorrow, he'll be a year! Time flies and I need to start learning how to keep up.

Despite all the craziness we have managed to have some fun.

Snow can always put you in a good mood.

Having nice enough weather to go outside also puts smiles on our faces.

Happy Holidays

I think we have finally recovered from traveling for Christmas! On with the blogging... We had a wonderful time in Utah for Chrismas. The whole family was there. We never stopped, there was always something going on. We wish that we could all live on the same street and play all the time. I guess these bi or tri-annual trips will have to do!

I'm sorry that the pictures may be a little random, but I just didn't have the patience to get them in order! Christmas morning! The year of the hurricane! Santa must really think that the Henriod's are deprived! Or, I should say, we must be really behaved!

Can I open these ones! This is our wonderful, perfect, carrot-top Tyler!

Grace would rather try on the gear than actually get on the slopes, maybe next winter we'll get you down the mountain!
Mustache party! Where does Joel get these ideas! Dring egg nog, wear ugly Christmas sweaters, and read mustache poetry! Jeremy's lovely handlebars made him look 5 years older, and people said that he looked like Brad Pitt at work! Were they wearing their glasses?

Christmas Eve, look at the pajamas that the elf brought, and those slippers! Santa has those elves working really hard.

The nativity puppet show! All were attentive to Spencer's impersonations of the wise man from Australia/Middle East.

Christmas morning, ooh Santa really thought Grace was a good girl!

Princess cousins!

Grace learns about digging for gold from the best! Michael is a great ucle, even with that silly mustache!
If you've never been go-cart racing, you are missing out! This is one of those things that needs to be on your "before I die" lists! Jeremy was the most-improved racer. Spencer the most-ruthless, and Mary Kathryn the hardest to pass, much to Jeff's dismay!

Most pictures of us moving were blurry, but in this one we caught Jeremy, on the right, going slow enough for a shot!

Look at these cute cabin bunnies!

We don't need to even say anything about these pictures. I'm sure every parent of a girl has had this happen. And yes, I did laugh. Good thing we don't let 2 year-olds wear makeup.

Snow, snow, and more snow. It was so great being able to play in the snow in Utah. Kimball, Grace's cousin, is throwing a snowball in this picture.

Gingerbread houses. A long time tradition continues. All Grace wanted to do was eat the candy and lick the frosting.
We hope that you had a great Christmas wherever you are!