Christmas Break Fun

Right now it's halftime of the Jacksonville-Pittsburgh NFL wildcard game. For the first time ever, I just saw one of my former students at Notre Dame sack the Steeler's quarterback and intercept a pass. I had him in Math 107 during the spring of 2003.

Anyway, we made it through the Christmas marathon, including a trip to Chicago that got extended due to bad weather. For New Year's Eve we hung out with friends that also have lots of little girls, and Annika and Abby got to see the ball drop. The next day we had lots of tired family members, and later in the day the whole family was sleeping except for me, including all three cats and our friends' dog that we were looking after. It was right during the end of the Michigan-Florida game, which was nice for me. In the past few days we've been trying to get the our sleeping schedules back on track for school.

During break we've also gone bowling and done some sledding. The park behind our house actually has some kid-sized decent hills, although when the snow is packed down and the sleds go far there are lots of obstacles to run into, like cement walls, bike racks, and trees. Annika actually went over the largest sledding ramp that some kids had built into the hill that I've ever seen. Fortunately, she wasn't going too fast - she mostly went up the ramp and then dropped off the end - a good two foot drop. She wasn't very happy with the result.

In other news, Jake's head is filling out his helmet real nicely, so that in three weeks they're actually going to rescan his head, and he might be done - after only 12 weeks, a pretty minimal amount of time for this sort of thing. We'll see how it actually turns out.

School starts for Lisa and the girls on Monday, and work essentially starts for me, too.

Thaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaats' all for now.