a panoramic view

A panoramic picture Matt took at my parents house Christmas morning. I think blogger compressed it quite a bit when uploading though so it looks a little blurry on here. =(
Oh well, but we will definitley be using this feature more, its fun!

Merry Christmas!

My favorie time of the year. Lots of time with family and friends, tons of yummy food, music, christmas movies, and plenty of wine and hot butter rum drinks. Here are a few pics I captured with the new camera.

We spent Christmas Eve with the Whitfields and went to church. Had a huge dinner and some festive drinks, and even watched some christmas movies. Even though we are all pretty much adults now... Santa still brought all of us new PJ's on Christmas Eve.... =)

Christmas day we made our way over to Snohomish to spend time with Matt's family. More good food and drinks, good company, and I have to say I think I made friends with Dennis & Chris's (Matt's Aunt & Uncle) dog Walter...maybe next year will be the Christmas we finally get a puppy ... hehe.

New Camera

Matt and I got a new camera for Christmas this year from my parents! We are super excited to start taking more fun pictures and improve our photo skills before Egypt this year.

After doing a bit of research, Matt decided the Canon PowerShot SX 20 IS would be a good one for us. It is not quite as complicated as an SLR (still a "point and shoot") - but still has a great lense, tons of zoom and some other cool features... and I really wanted one with the screen on the back which flips out and angles in all directions.

I tried my hand at some photos today for Christmas and will upload some soon. Also hoping this will get us to start updating the blog more often... =). Yay!

Mexico - part 2

A couple more great Mexico pic's I got from my Mom.

Happy Birthday John! Celebrating John's 21st birthday in Mexico. He was a good sport, and took those tequila shots like a pro! =)

My goofy husband.

Mexico

So much catching up to do... I'll start with the latest. Over Thanksgiving Matt and I went with my family (Mom, Dad, John, Sarah, and Sarah's boyfriend Kieran) to Puerto Vallarta in Mexico. It was so nice after a busy couple months at work to just relax and enjoy the warm weather and time with family.

We had LOTS of mexican food, margaritas, guacamole... even Fajitas for Thanksgiving day dinner. =) A great time, we can't wait to make a tradition of Mexico and using my parents time-share every couple years...