McKayla turns 11!

Happy Birthday to McKayla this week! We went swimming, out to dinner, had cake and ice cream, and she had a friend party - Spoiled rotten! She received a digital camera (so she will leave mine alone) and took 300 pictures in the first 3 days. Also, thanks for the cards and gifts from Grandparents - you guys are great!

She picked her colors for the cake and we mixed them only using the primary colors. (She is learning about Art, Literature, Music, and Theater for her Knowledge Bowl this year and we take every chance we get to use what she is learning!)

Christmas Pictures

We had a great Christmas at the cabin in Island Park. It was full of movies, card games, popcorn, snow, cousins, food, a fresh Christmas tree, stringing popcorn, snow, Nintendo DS consoles, warm fires, sleeping in, staying up late, snow, gifts, the Nativity story, family, more food, snowshoeing, hot chocolate, Risk, Twister, and Phase 10 Twist, snow, hazelnuts, and more food. Did we mention the snow? We got over 3 feet of snow in the week that we were there! Here are a bunch of pictures showing some of the action:

Check out the cabin blog that Joe built for the Parker family on the sidebar. There are more pics and other information.

Our holidays were about as perfect as they could be. The only thing we could ask for now is: another week or two of vacation - none of us want to go back to real life tomorrow!