Holidays 2008: A Long Overdue Recap

Wow, it has been a long time since we posted on here. I imagine we have thus lost the few readers of this little blog! Well, we will try to pick back up where we left off...

The holiday season was busy as expected and kind of flew by. It was a special holiday season for us as it was our first as a married couple. People often ask if "it feels different" after the wedding. And normally my quick answer is not too much. But really it has been a blast- in the second half of 2008 we really fell into an "old married couple" rhythm. We both still have silly grins when we use the "wife" or "husband" terms. The holidays are so family oriented for us that the whole "married couple" thing became even more visible to us - it was bizarre and fun.

This was such a fun holiday year at the farm. With a new little nephew who was only a couple weeks old and one of my sisters pregnant, there was quite an apparent shift. We are now all married and most of us (really everyone but Dan and I) are moving on to the parent stage of life. It was a blast as everyone seems to get along and just enjoy each others company. Playing girls against boys for pictionary was such a great time (yes of course the girls won). And of course like every year there was tons and tons of cooking and food.

Then after a day or two at back at our apartment we headed up north to Dan's parents B&B for a family holiday. It was a relaxing and fun time filled with yummy dinners and tasty breakfasts. And of course the the girls prevailed against the boys for crainium, which is a bizarre but entertaining game. I personally have been wanting to see the Milwaukee Art Institute with its acclaimed architecture so I was very excited that we headed up to Milwaukee for an afternoon. The MAI was quite a site to see and Dan took us to a very cool lunch spot that we all enjoyed. The only bummer was that the brewery tour would have be a terribly long wait - next time!

We tend to be fairly camera snap happy so we ended up with a large number of pictures from the holidays... we edited down to a smaller number of favorites and here is the slide show. Just click on it to make it full screen:

And we have actually been quite busy since the holidays with new hobbies and new moving plans... Dan has been delegated to post up about these topics so if it takes another 2 months...