Happy New Year

Wow.. 4 posts in all of 2006. I knew it was bad, but I didn’t think it was that bad. At least Maren has decided that she wants to know how to post stuff herself, so maybe there will be more frequent updating of the site this year.

So, what’s happened since last August. Well, in September we had Axel’s first birthday party, which was a lot of fun. Many of our friends and family came out to the new house to celebrate. Axel had fun being the center of attention and actually did finally eat some of his apple cupcake we made for him.

The holidays were good this year. Thanksgiving was at our house, which may be becoming an annual event. I actually don’t mind cooking Thanksgiving dinner and this year the turkey came out about as well as it could. We initially only had my parents coming down, but quickly added my sister and her husband Paul, and then Maren’s mom and her new husband Andy came too. No one could stay around too long, but it was still good to have everyone visit.

We did Christmas in two parts. My parents came over to our place around the 17th of December and that was fun. Axel got some fun new toys and I got to cook for everyone, which I enjoy. The only bad thing was that the stomach virus that has been going around all over the place got to me and Maren later that week.

We all headed up to the Philadelphia area to stay with Maren’s sister for the weekend of Christmas. We made the decision to leave in the evening in the hopes that Axel would sleep most of the way. Luckily, this worked as planned, and also took less time because we avoided a lot of traffic. We had a nice, relaxing holiday and got to see all of our family up there. I think Axel also had a really good time.

When we got home from Philadelphia, I had the rest of the week off and I spent a couple of days with Axel, which I hadn’t had to do for a while and when I did, it was usually because he wasn’t feeling well, so it was good to have non-sick time with him. That week, Jan 2nd was declared a Federal holiday, so Maren got an extra day off, thus we packed up and headed to Charlotte, NC to stay with my sister for New Years. It was good to get away and not spend the last days of 2006 doing our same old routine.

So now it’s 2007. All caught up? Currently Maren and I are back to work and we’re currently in the process of replacing our aging Saturn. Axel is a year and a half old and his new fun thing to do is to throw stuff. It’s fun because he likes to throw a ball and is learning to catch one too, but it’s not quite that much fun when he decides to throw his dinner or the TV remote at the dog.

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