Fish and Chips Story — The Story of Us

     We got home yesterday from our Christmas trip.  Alora got to meet some of her relitives for the first time.  And at my house the whole family came over on Saturday and it was great to have everyone over for the first time in years.  We then traveled to Maryland only getting lost once but my fabulous sense of direction and Heathers need to use the restroom got us back on track.  Then we had another Christmas with the Minears.  Alora got along very well with Deeogee (pronounced D-O-G), Jeff and Brenda’s dog, clever name huh.  They seemed to love eachother maybe because they saw eye to eye.  Finally we ended up in Pittsburgh although I passed out so I don’t remember much, sorry Dave.

     It is great to be back and I had a great birthday but I can’t share that online.  🙂

So tonight we leave for Alora’s First Christmas, and it will be a busy one.  We will be in PA Saturday where we will have Christmas with my family.  She gets to meet her aunt Jan for the first time and she is very excited.  We will then leave Tuesday to go to Maryland to see uncle Jeff and aunt Brenda and Grandma and Grandpa Minear.  Thursday we will head to Pittsburgh to see aunt Betsy, uncle Dave and Corbin.  Friday on Jason’s birthday we will hopefully find our selves back in Columbus for a weekend of relaxing before our annual waffle breakfast on the first.

 Merry Christmas to all

After three years of defeat, Heather and I faced greater odds than ever and won the annual Delong Gingerbread house contest.  We had to deal with a cranky baby and seven houses in competition but our log cabin style creation won by a single vote.  I will be posting pictures as soon as possible.