it WAS christmas in killarney!

yes, i am aware that it's already January 4th. Happy New Year! i spent New Year's Eve playing "Guitar Hero" (a video game) where you have to try and play the song on the screen. i was actually very very good. better than clarke, anyway!

christmas in killarney was cold and snowy and wonderful. we played and did puzzles. ate and drank chocolate milk. played games...Apples to Apples, Clue, Double Series. we watched "national lampoon's christmas vacation" and laughed till our stomach's hurt. we celebrated amy and donny's engagement and enjoyed the one day we had we clarke and alison before they headed to saskatoon. we took pictures and looked through Avon brochures.

it was a wonderful, wonderful 10 days...which actually stretched into 10 days + 1 bonus day for mom and me. my flight was cancelled out of winnipeg, which caused me to miss all of my other flights, so i was put up in a hotel for 2 nights and had all my meals paid for. mom came back into winnipeg on wednesday to spend the day and night, and to see me off on thursday morning. we had a fun shopping day (she bought a red chair), we walked out of a movie ("National Treasure 2" - BORING), we slept in a king sized bed!

now it's friday and i'm back in N. Ireland and it's pretty good, but it's hard not to compare how i feel at home to how i feel here. guess that's normal. it'll be good to get back into routine and normalcy.

it was good to be home.

our christmas...alison opened a bottle of lotion and it squirted up her nose...we refer to it as the "albino booger".

the boys in their new Carhartt jackets, dad in a snowmobiling mask, the girls in our new pashmina's, mom in her new dressing gown.

amy and i on a trip to Rolla...beautiful hoar frost on the trees and beautiful girls in the car!

mom's new red chair, our little red house, me and a big king sized bed in my hotel room in winnipeg!