Christmas Break Randomness

Randomness.  That’s been the theme of our Christmas break.  We’ve read, slept, ran errands, played, worked some, cleaned some…we have just done random things each day. Here are a few pictures capturing some of our random activities:

Corbin put on a “show” for us with the main event being reading us jokes from his new book.

Napping by the fire, yes please!

Chess is big around here right now. This was Corbin’s first win against Dad.

Time at the mall finished off with dinner. My two boys are always happy when food’s involved.

One of Chris’s random activities was changing our lights to LEDs. Seriously, it makes him so happy!

Well, off to another day of random activities with a New Year’s gathering to end the night.  See you in 2017!

Christmas 2016

We start Christmas celebrations early in December and don’t stop until Christmas Day. It’s a fun month of family gatherings, food, and fun.

First stop was Grandma and Grandpa Miller’s house. There was a unique challenge with some gift opening: Saran wrap, gloves, and dice were involved!

And at the Miller Christmas it’s all boy kiddos, so what does that look like…fighting robots and light sabers sounds about right!

The next weekend we were off to the Williams’ Family Christmas with lots of shenanigans with the cousins (and adults).

We wrapped the season up with Christmas Eve at my parents.  Going to the candlelight church service that evening is always a favorite part of Christmas for me.

Santa came the next morning and brought a joke book. How did Santa know that Corbin is really into those? Smart guy, that Santa!

Then on Christmas Day we were at Papa Lee and Grandma’s house. Again there is never a shortage of action going on there with those cousins. Corbin is very blessed to have cousins he plays well with and loves seeing on both sides.

The above picture shows a rare occurrence…emotion while opening a gift.  Although Corbin loves his gifts he just doesn’t express it too much. Well, not only did he express his love for this gift (Pokemon Cards and Box Holders) Chris actually caught it on film.  This is like seeing a solar eclipse (that’s rare, right…I’m totally on vacation right now)

Well, that’s Christmas 2016 in a nutshell.  We remembered to take some pictures…win! We got everyone gifts who we needed to…win! I have eaten enough food to get me through the winter…win! And I’m blogging…win, win, win!

Goodbye for this year, Christmas. I’m already looking forward to next year…it’s my absolute most favorite time of year!

“The Lost Semester”

 

Due to the changes in our life – and by “our” I mean me going to work full time – this blog has been neglected and pushed to the bottom of my ever-long to do list.

However, I am now on my first day of Christmas break and trying to rectify the neglected time I have spent with this blog. Feel free to check back periodically during the next 2 weeks because I will be putting up pictures of different family Christmases. However, after my break has ended I make no promises…it might be all quiet on the blog for another semester, who knows!

For now, to get you caught up on all-things Corbin I have given you a link to a Sway presentation that I created. This will give you a quick pictorial look at Fall Semester 2016. And by a quick look, I mean quick because I noticed that there are many events that happened (i.e. Thanksgiving) that I have no pictures for.

So what this really boils down to is that you will see the pictures I did take during this time period. Whether these are really important events of this semester or not is of little importance, it’s pictures I had.

With that amazing lead up I’m sure you can’t wait to view the not-really-but-could-be-interesting-or-important-pictures of Fall 2016. 

https://sway.com/N4tUDlfFD5gJxIEJ

(Mom and GG once you’ve clicked on the link push the arrow buttons at the bottom of the pages to move forward in the presentation.  It will not move on it’s own.)