A Great Holiday Season!

The holiday season has been great thanks to all our family and friends. We spent Christmas here in Seattle with Sarah's family. Her aunt Jane, uncle David, and cousins Aaron and Eva came home from the Marshall Islands for Christmas. It was great to see them again but reminded us of how much we miss having them out on Whidbey.

The day after Christmas we flew out to Salt Lake City to meet up with my family for a week of snowboarding and hanging out. The condo we stayed at was awesome. We spent the days out snowboarding and skiing and then came back to the condo where we spent most of our time either playing pool, foosball, and airhockey, or eating. We spent a few days getting Sarah into the swing of things. Just like the rest of us, she took her lumps. Learning how to snowboard can be a painful experience as anyone who has tried knows. But, by the third day she was tearing it up and taking full runs without falling down (much).

When we go to Utah we met up with all the Ferraris (aunt, uncle, cousins) and even got to see Rob and Joe's Grandpa Twisty. It's always so great to see everyone, but sucks so bad to leave just because we are all pretty spread out these days, and don't get to see each other as much as we would all like. It make me miss the days growing up in Ely when just about everyone was right down the street.

Well a big thanks to JB and Jeri, who were sick the whole trip. I brought back a cold that kept me down for a few days. I elected to break in the new year by being layed up on the couch watching bowl games....not too terrible I guess.

Finally feeling better on the last day of vacation before Sarah goes back to work and I go back to school, we decided to reward Denali for being so awesome and took him on a day trip over to Leavenworth, WA so he could play in the snow. We had a great last day of vacation. It was a perfect way to end the break. Spending the day with Sarah and the dogs in such a beautiful place, a guy can't ask for much more than that.

Thanks again to all our family and friends for such a great holiday season! We love you all. God bless you.