Where to start...

I knew it would be awhile until I blogged again, but this has just gotten ridiculous. Now I don't even know where to start. I will entirely skip the month of December except for our Christmas trip where we visited a ton of family and traveled around the state of Arizona (as well as through Texas and New Mexico of course). I made tamales with my grandma, played in the snow, and ate all of my mother-in-law's delicious food. I even got to see my neice again a couple of times. Pictures of that are suspiciously missing, but she was just as cute. This time she played and talked to me for a good ten minutes. Add to that Jared's tally another trip to New Mexico and Colorado to gather samples for his thesis and ski with his friend, Craig.  Here are some of the few pictures we do have.

The other Hamilton boys (Shane and Stoney) checking out Stoney's new phone.

Abakles loved chilling in the presents - her and Meowfish were constantly under the tree.

Meowfish's playing with his Christmas presents. 

Mike checking out his watch. 

Jared's mom bought him a record player and he has really enjoyed it already. He's been collecting albums for a long time without anywhere to play them. We took all these pictures with our new camera so a lot of them that I did take didn't turn out well because I was still getting used to it. But I'm getting better at it and its pretty nice.

Janelle (Mike's daughter) before taking a tumble down the mountain.

The reason I never buy expensive sunglasses.

Jared and I's snowball fight escalated until at one point my face was being smashed into the snow and I came up looking like this. 

Mike and Janelle AFTER the tumble down the mountain. 

Well, this will have to do for now. Last week, we decorated our room (painting walls, bought bedspreads and the like). Jared decided we couldn't do that without finishing our bathroom too. So, that's what we are doing this weekend. And apparently he needs me back for the second coat. I'll post pictures of both of those soon. (By soon, I don't mean a month and a half from now - at least I hope I am not that lazy - sure would fit with the current trend).