Christmas Holidays 2011 - This is my first post

Well, it is way past Christmas now. Tomorrow is the last day of January. But I am slowly learning how to use this little blog program and with small chunks of time in my day, I get started and then I don't finish. So here is my first attempt.

I thought it would be nice to start a blog since I'm finding I send out quite a few e-mails with pictures and videos.

For those of you not familiar, "blog" might be a new term. I think of it as an online journal. I hope to use it to post updates (not daily) but perhaps weekly or as things come up.

So we had a lovely Christmas in Calgary. We had gorgeous weather and still are as a matter of a fact. We certainly can't complain. Joey and Graham and Shawn and I hosted our families. We were back and forth between the two houses quite a bit. The pictures (if I can figure out how to post more than one on one post) show the classic traditions at Christmas. Much fun family time was had by all. And of course, there was food and to spare.

Between Christmas and New Years, Tiara, Teija and Jaimen stayed with us. So we mostly played a home because I was a little overwhelmed taking 4 kids out by myself. I can barely handle one of my own out (little temperamental child we have :)). But one afternoon Shawn and Graham took the kids to the pool.

And New Years, Gma and Gpa Pihrag stayed with us and Graham and Joey and so we had a quieter New Years but lots of good family time all the same.