Sleeping Under the Christmas Tree

Here is the song that Bry and I wrote on Christmas Eve together. We are pretty proud of it since it is the first song we have written together. It's about time we did that, eh?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwseoKvRj7E

-Nat

Train Video

Here is the link to the video I took on Christmas morning of Pearl encountering her first train set. It's 6 minutes long, so save it for when you are really bored. I just couldn't edit much of it though because I thought her little words were so cute.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWR7R5sYKfI

-Nat

Tandem Dancing

A little goofiness.

-Nat

Grateful

This year I wanted to start a new tradition. I wanted something that would help me remember the real meaning of Christmas and not focus so much on the stress. I wanted something that we could keep doing every year with Pearl. I wanted something that wasn't too cheesy and that I would actually do. I heard about traditions where people put things into boxes or mangers little by little all December and then do something with them on Christmas so I decided to make a gratitude box. We write on the little slips of paper each day (mostly) what we are grateful for that day, then put it into the box. On Christmas morning, this is the first thing I want our family to open up. Then we can talk about what we are grateful for before all the rest of the presents take over the day.
-Nat

Nog

We had a little holiday eggnog tasting party yesterday. The main purpose was just to have some fun, but we were also curious what the best brand of eggnog is out there. I had everyone who wanted to fill out a comment sheet as they tried the eggnog, then they could vote for their favorites and least favorites at the bottom of the sheet. There were 5 different kinds: Royal Crest, Southern Comfort, Robinson, Meadow Gold, and Kroger.

I numbered the cups so it could be blind taste testing. No one knew what number was which brand until they turned in their vote.

Bryan compiled the results on a nice spreadsheet just like a good numbers nerd should do, but I can't copy it into this post, so I will have to do it by hand. Take note, there were only 9 votes, so the numbers are "not statistically significant" according to Bryan.

Here are the results:

1st Royal Crest

2nd Southern Comfort

3rd Meadow Gold

4th Robinson

5th Kroger

-Nat