Keeping things brief to keep you posted

I'm obviously falling far behind on this blog, so if I don't just throw a bunch of pictures on here, I'll never catch up. So, in the interest of covering a lot of ground, I'm going to post a sampling of pictures with brief captions to get us up to date, and hopefully I'll be able to post more regularly for the next little while. Here's hoping...

4 generations. Mom, Larry, Grandma McGowan, and Auntie Sharen joined us for Christmas dinner on the 22nd. Larry had to work Christmas this year, so we had pre-Christmas-Christmas. I actually don't have a picture of us all eating dinner. Classic shot, totally overlooked...

Josiah pulling his sister through the sloppy snow. We actually saw a lot of the white stuff this year. More than usual for these parts, but still less than usual in my winter experience...

Josiah got a hockey card binder and 400 hockey cards for Christmas this year from Grandma Shannon & Grandpa Larry. These were and are a big hit. Dwayne was just as excited as Josiah to sort them and put them in order in the binder.

Reading "How the Grinch Stole Christmas."

I just love Abby's expression here. This was a mini-ATV, by the way. =)

Here's the kids dressed up for dinner on the 25th. We went to Dwayne's Auntie Janice & Uncle Graham's house for the family dinner this year. For my Facebook friends, some of these shots will be repetitive...

This looks like an idyllic Christmas scene of mommy looking at lights with daughter. You'd never guess that it ends in alarms, being followed by the cops, and 3 police squad cars pulling up at the Hansen home...

Just a cute shot of Abby after church one day in January.

Another cute shot of Abby in the tub last week.

Josiah & Abby playing superheros in their pj's. =) Notice Josiah's very accurate facial expression...

We took the kids skating at the Prospera Center last week. Believe it or not, this was Josiah's first time on real skates. He loved it, although, as usual, he struggles with doing things he's not already excellent at. We really built up the fact that he'd probably fall a lot, so he was expecting as much, and seemed okay with it. I think he's actually looking forward to getting better.

Abby seemed to love skating more than all of us. She was on little bob skates, and couldn't get enough of it. Perhaps she'll be our little hockey player...=)

Okay, there it is. The synopsis of 2 months. I'll try to be more regular. Check in again soon.