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We have been away for a while from the blogging world but are happy to be back! This past month has been jammed packed with tons of family, fun and Holiday parties. We started the month with our companies' Christmas parties where James won a 10 pound block of Belgian chocolate! It is huge and we still have all of it. Anyone in desperate need to chocolate? My party was a little toned downed compared but fun too.

We spent a lot of time with family and received so many gifts. We were very blessed. On Christmas morning we woke up at 3:00 am to a new roster behind us. To those who have not yet visited our house, we have a roster behind us named Charlie that is a little senile and crows at 5:00pm instead of in the mornings. Well apparently the owners felt the need to get a new roster for Christmas but he started WAY WAY to early in the morning. We finally got up and I was about to let Cocoa out when I noticed that the new roster was IN the backyard. That is why he was so loud! I took some pics and then sent Cocoa out to scare him so he would never come back. It has worked so far!



The day continued with me attempting to make cinnamon rolls for the first time and the butter melting and starting a small smoke storm which caused the smoke detector to go off. Ah Christmas morning. The rest of the day was great but man we were tired! Cocoa had fun with the rapping paper and survived us putting ribbon and bowes on her. Poor thing.



Then we headed out to Merced to go to Brandon's little girl's first birthday party. It was fun and she is such a cutie. She did great with the cake! Then it was New Years where we played a lot of pool over at the Mathews and watched movies. I will win one game eventually right?!



Alas Christmas came and went and taking down the decorations this year was sad. The house looks slightly empty but we did get a new hutch which looks great! Oh and James had a lot of fun climbing on the roof taking down the Christmas lights. Almost gave me a heart attack but it made for some great pictures of what the town looks like from that vantage point.



We had a great Holiday season, and look forward to a great 2008!