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Another year

  Happy New Year! It is officially 2012, in fact it's just after midnight and I'm sitting in bed listening to the fireworks outside grateful that I'm not out there freezing!
  I can't believe another year has gone by, I'm excited for the next.
  Christmas was great, my mom has been in town so it made it a little easier to deal with Russ working Christmas eve and Christmas day. We took about 30 min to do the Santa thing while he was home and waited until the 29th to really celebrate. It was actually kind of nice, it allowed the holiday to linger for a few more days.
  Anyway, Taevin got a pogo stick and a snowboard (daddy's excited to show him the ropes), Ryler got a penguin race game and a little trampoline so he can bounce to his hearts content, and Zoey got a little four wheeler and a shopping cart. Russ got tools, and I got shoes (Santa knows me well!) and thanks to Grandpa and Uncle Dan, we all got a Wii, and since I'm a master at the original Mario brothers I was particularly excited (this is a side of me my children have never seen before).

  For the last few years, my not so little brother Dan, has been in the army and deployed over Christmas. He has several times expressed this strange desire to make a turducken for Christmas dinner, so now that he's home, we decided to tackle it. Now for those of you who've never heard of a turducken, it's a duck inside a turkey, and a chicken inside the duck, sounds simple right? Not so much. And why? Well, you have to debone all three birds in order to stuff them inside of one another, and that my friends, is DISGUSTING! My kitchen looked like a fowl massacre (haha, get it?) but alas, we conquered, and it was even kinda good.  It's unlikely that this will become a tradition, but at least we can say we did it.
  It's been a wonderful year and I look forward 2012 being great. And just for the record, no I don't think the world will end this year.

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  1. NatalieJanuary 2, 2012 at 9:03 AM

    You're brave to conquer a turducken. I don't think I'll try that one any time soon. :0) I'm glad you had a wonderful Christmas!! In primary yesterday, I was asking all the kids what they got for Christmas, and Ryler's face just lit up when he told me about his trampoline and penguin game. What a cutie!!

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