2008's Closing Events

So there have been a few things taking over my extra curricular time lately, certainly moving back to Warrensburg and all of the unpacking and sorting and pitching of seemingly endless quantities of stuff, has been a major activity. But the added benefit of Christmas and a couple of fantastic trips away from the Burg, has delayed my progress on some of the other things I like to do, like blogging for instance. I have decided that I like to blog, because it helps me to remember what is going on in my life, this is due to the fact that I am a completely random journal writer, which in fact leads me to be a random blogger-so that doesn't help me out too much.
To help me realize my delinquency in this area of my life, Zach has had a project in school this last week, to do a timeline of his life. It has been very challenging, much to my chagrin . First of all to actually locate appropriate pictures of periods throughout his life span- one problem encountered is there is a period of time completely missing due to our cameras being stolen back in the summer of 07, which had quite a bit of data stored therein- (it just feels like a personal mental block), secondly is to remember when things actually took place. I have a pathetic memory when it comes to that. I am a little alarmed really to find that my brain got packed away somewhere with everything else, and I can't find it either! I think I have come across all of the boxes of photo albums and copious amounts of prints-including many doubles, still in their original envelopes. I will save that adventure for another day! However, one of these days in the future you may come across an envelope of photos in your mailbox from yours truly; not today however!

So for now, I finally did find all of the cords and pieces to the camera so I could download photos from our last bit in NYC up to this very time. Just sorting through those seems to take up much more time than I would like it to! Having said that, you can either continue and check out some of those picture "perfect" moments, or just take a pass on the Nielsen memorabilia!

This first set is of our last days in NYC- they were packed!

Next is Christmas and our awesome trip to Chicago!

We had such an amazing holiday-our first year staying home! We started a new tradition- celebrating Lillejulaften on the 23rd- all things Norway- great food, great friends. A quiet Christmas morning where the kids were delighted for everyone and for everything, a lovely trip to visit cousins in Ozark and Nixa Missouri, and finally a fantastic trip to Chicago for some big city moments with our good friends John and Carrie and their beautiful family! We even joined in on our Stake Temple day in St. Louis on the way home- it was perfect! Thanks to all for making it so wonderful!