Monday, January 12, 2009

Whoops! I skipped right past Christmas.



Things have been so hectic these days, I failed to post some of the fun things we did during the Christmas holidays. We had family visiting from Omaha and Phoenix in addition to the kids who live here in Utah. Christmas nativity, decorating gingerbread cookies, elf visits, friendly beasts, etc. Check out the family fun.


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Who has this much fun without alcohol?

My family (ten siblings, spouses, my mom and three of her grandkids) spent New Year's week in Mexico. We had a real blast. Not only did we play tennis and hang at the beach daily, feast at the buffet, play games and lounge around to discuss everything!!!.... we also took the ferry over to Cozumel and boarded a catamarran for a snorkel sailing adventure. There were 26 of us on the boat, and about 20 others. Of course, any adventure in Mexico includes all you can drink beer and alcohol. We are all "sin alcohol" so we sipped sodas only. We had sooooo much fun dancing and singing and goofing around on the catamarran that our fellow snorkelers couldn't believe a group could have that much fun without being drunk. (Those imbibing the beer couldn't handle the marcerana on a shifting sail boat, believe me.) One of the grandsons, sixteen year old Talmage, commented later about his 50 and 60 year old aunts and uncles...."You guys are all CRAZY!" Even Mom (age 86 1/2) found herself carried ashore by a handsome dive team guy. Check out the fun.