A Post-Christmas Afternoon at the Park

Hello, Friends!

Hope you had a wonderful Christmas! We at Echowood certainly did.

Christmas Eve was busy with baking, in the morning, and at night attending church (our whole family attended both Mass at the Catholic church and the Lutheran candlelight service, so you can imagine how pleased I was!).

On Christmas Day, we ate cinnamon rolls for breakfast—as has become our tradition—opened gifts, listened to Christmas music. Brian cooked a wonderful turkey dinner, the kids played, and I got to familiarize myself with my new digital camera! Lucky, lucky me! I’m hoping that I will be able to share more of the doings here with you in a timelier fashion from now on.

This afternoon we took the boys to the park. What fun they had! Here are just a few of the pictures we snapped. . .

(Oh! I have to mention that the new camera makes this cool click/snap sound when we take a shot. It reminds me of the sound effects in the Nancy Drew computer games, whenever Nancy “takes” something for her cache of goods!)

Levi was up so high—he was making his mama really nervous! (But I took the picture anyway!)

Charlie loves this spinner thing. Unfortunately, he takes after me and gets motion sickness. He threw up (in the car, sad to say) the minute we arrived home and pulled into the driveway. Poor little fellow.

They had a lot of fun on the tire swing—until Levi jumped down while it was moving. (He also got too close while the other boys were on it and got bopped in the nose.)

Urban and Levi played “Mission to Mars” on this silly ride-on toy. When we put the photos onto the computer, Brian observed that you can see, in the background, the bag of bread we’d brought to feed the turtles at the lake there. It must have been the wrong time of day—or the wrong time of year—however, for there were no turtles to be found. Only a lone seagull and some small fish had any interest in being fed today.

Tomorrow, we’re off to St. Pete Beach to spend New Year’s with my family. I will make my very best effort to write an epistle or two or three whilst I am there.