Slacking

Okay it's been way too long since I've posted anything.  I've been slacking.
I have great goals for this year... including blogging more.  We have had a rough start to the year.  Everyone has been sick.  Ugh.  But life goes on and so we are taking lots of medicine and trying to get better.
A small recap of the past few months:

Thanksgiving was GREAT!  Chris got back from training just in time for us to drive out to Iowa.  We loved hanging out with some of Chris's siblings.  The boys couldn't get enough of their aunts and uncles.  We got to see the University where Jonathan (1 of Chris's brothers) is now a professor.  His office is really cool.  It has special walls that can absorb sound or make it echo.  My boys loved that.
We also visited a small German village for breakfast one morning.  YUM!

Chris took two weeks off for Christmas.  It was wonderful having him home.  Unfortunately we all got the stomach bug that was going around.  Thankfully none of us had it on Christmas Eve or Christmas Day.  Christmas Eve we went over to my aunt's house.  We had tons of food and did a silly, fun gift exchange.
Christmas Day was spent at my parents' house and was wonderful.  The boys loved everything Santa brought them.
We are so lucky to be living in Colorado Springs.  One of the reasons is that we get to see Jonathan and Kate every year at Christmas instead of every other year, because Kate's family lives here too.  We enjoyed having them over on Boxing Day (Day after Christmas).

We took it easy on New Year's Eve.  We did have a feast of crab legs, twice baked potatoes and asparagus at home.

So there is what we've been up to.