the road trip

so a few pics from our seriously too long road trip. we started out on the 23rd and made it to caronport for a night with pat and trudy but not before i did the front brakes on the astro. the next day we made it out to Steinbach the automobile city to catch the Christmas eve service in Mo (my other brother's church) then we high tailed it off back to winkler for night. there we found the traditional christmas eve homemade pizza waiting for us at mom and dads house. the next morning it was presents and stocking and bird and all that jazz. very cool!

here are all the cousins playing a card game that Jared is cheerleading them to play.

and here of course is the present exchange and broo haha

My mom (who has lost over a 100 lbs by now) with her finely decorated Christmas tree
Mom and dad decided to take the whole family skiing as the christmas present this year. they went skiing for the first time as well. It is so awesome that mom has gotten the right treatment for her sleep apnia... really something to be thankful for...

all of us except for char doing what we do best kicking back after a meal to just shoot the breeze
Next we headed out to the Friesen gathering (extended family dealy) back in steinbach - good times catching up with people i haven't seen for years and years.

Then it was off to Regina and then on to Ponoka for Char's side of the family Christmas

here is the whole family posing for a pic in mom and dad's loft
char's mom and dad in said loft
me and char - one of those rare times you get to see my hot wife in a picture on this blog - just cuase i know most of you are jealous...
char's sister and her husband - we spent the week after New years with them skiing in playing in the east kootenays - very fun. they even invited us out for their news eve bash in the shop. I won $60 in poker that night.
Char's sister rachel, jared, char's dad, me, and jesse - learning and playing killer bunnies


Jared's first shave. i thought I would be there for it but char caught it on camera. I guess grandpa's electric shaver was too tempting not to try
the mele at the enns residence when all the cousins go at the presents that char's mom works so hard to get. I dont know how she does it but she finds deals on stuff the rest of us can hardly get our hands on. she is really good at that.
more mele and mayhem

char explaining to levi something important about his gift

We plugged the astro with ove $700 worth of fuel for this trip and got some pretty cool experiences out of the deal. i really missed seeing all our friends around here over Christmas this year but alas this was good too