Its been a year!

I started my blog a year ago at Christmas. Its been a fun thing, I must admit. I haven't posted pics of Christmas yet so here are some of them and a few others:This is Christmas Eve. Bradach was somewhat the entertainment. He ran around and the older kids followed. Finally they sat down and all took turns asking Bradach to say certain words and do funny things.

When the man of the hour showed up all the kids gathered around and took turns sitting on Santa's lap. This is as close as Bradach got to doing that. But he never cried! I think the fact that Santa's voice was familiar helped. Santa ended up handing out gifts and Bradach got a truck and a candy cane(first and last one of the season).
Christmas morning we got up around 9:30 and Phil made Crepes, we topped them with yogurt, strawberries and raspberries, powdered sugar and whipped cream. They were delicious, I think this will be a new tradition except Steven wont be so happy about that.
Christmas day was great, even more fun now that Bradach gets excited. Santa brought him a "BIG TRUCK" as he calls it. He pushes it everywhere. He also got a few other things, it was a nice Christmas and we are very very lucky to have what we have. Grandpa Rock got the gliding horse from Santa, a gift to him that he was instructed to share with all his grandchildren. We missed RJ and Amy along with Aunt Julie and EJ, TiTi and JJ. Family has always been a big part of Christmas for us and its hard when people are missing.
My dad had his knee replaced a few weeks ago (its about time). And Bradach has been a great help. Here he is raising his leg, doing the exercises with Grandpa. He takes the heat and ice packs to Mamo to put away. He helps pull Grandpa out of his chair when no one else hops up to do it, lol, and puts the slippers on his feet for him and gets the crutches for him. He is a very helpful little boy....don't let this fool you, he started a new game. First he helps Grandpa up, then gives him his crutch and hops in the chair and rocks and rocks.
Our home towns is covered in snow, so I figured the town next door with all the mountains surrounding it would have even more snow. Logical I know, but not right. We packed up the sled and headed to the hills. When we got there there wasn't much snow, but enough for a first timer. Grandpa got him this awesome sled and we had to try it out on something other than flat ground. Bradach loved the sledding, witch happened to be at the rugby field so we tramped over to the sign and took a pic for Uncle Steve.
This sure was a long blog, but its been a while, I will try to do better in the future. Hope all of your upcoming years are great.