We had a great week with the grandparents, aunts,
uncles and cousins!! We even enjoyed a few extra days with Paul and
Darian due to airport-closing snow in the Northeast, and we packed lots of fun into our time together. In addition to much eating, drinking, reading, game playing,
laptopping, and flight-rescheduling, here's a little sampling of our holiday:
Climbing
We spent one morning at a huge indoor facility. Nate and Bethany are real climbing
aficionados so it was fun to see them in their element and they enjoyed sharing a hobby with all of us. It was such a hit with everyone that we went back for more after Chuck, Crista, Kylie, and Tyler arrived.
N & B show us the ropes.
This is the children's area with an auto-belay system. Before playing around here, Meg, Nate, and Kate made it all the way to the top of the (really high!) main wall. Meg is completely hooked; she learned to use the color-coded routes and just couldn't get enough.
Goofing around
Atlanta's first true white
Christmas since 1880 (not counting a dusting in the 1970s). It started falling late Christmas afternoon and everything was covered by morning. Fun!
Kylie brought her new video camera and the kids had fun directing, filming, and acting in dramatic and silly productions.
Zip
Relaxing
Cousins
Tubing
This was Meg's first basketball season. She was excited to play and really enjoyed practices. Unfortunately, there were no other girls on her team or any of the teams they played. The pace of the 7 & 8-year-old league is much faster than the 4 to 6-year-olds, so she didn't have the ball very often, but she learned about the game and she did make a basket. Great job Meg!
It was fun to see Nate's basic skills increase from last year. He is much better at shooting, ball control and generally paying attention to the game while on the court. He did lots of scoring this season and his team had a winning record.
