White Winter Creatures

Nathan and our snow bunny

A swan on Mystic River this winter

Farewell, 2011!

Sporting Mami's boots

Christmas tree bows

Adorning the tree

Nora and Nehemiah playing at the high chair

Nora before the gingerbread house at the Publick House in MA

The artist testing her new easel

Opening gifts

First try at the trike

Singing Happy Birthday to Jesus

Unwrapping gifts

All plagued by dreadful colds, we slogged through the three holidays. Last minute shopping, one major culinary success (two rosemary, lemon turkey birds) and one major culinary disaster (an undercooked and dehydrated Christmas pernil), countless church potlucks, a 10 pm Christmas Eve service with the kids and a Sunday morning Christmas Day service, multiple searches for a lost wedding band, an inoperative laptop, intensive potty training, sleep deprivation and so forth. 2011 stands out as a year of inordinate fatigue and abundant blessing – the year of the birth of our precious son.