I resolve...

I gotta give up exercising so much...

Xmas day

Jake tried to stay up and wait for the big man in the white beard but like the rest of us he fell asleep trying.


Santa was good to everyone this year. The kids slept in 3 hours longer this year than last. We started opening gifts at 7:30.








Granny got the much coveted Klean sweep as well as...


The Romco foot duster system. You just can't have too many foot based cleaning tools.

Cookies and Eggnog

Time to make cookies for Santa and the reindeer so we put the elves to work pressing out sugar pucks.






Even the dog got his own custom made cookie...


Then we drank eggnog...mama's had rum in it.

Woooo, drunk wife!








Ben doesn't like having his picture taken...

Ginger bread and pine

Twas the day before Christmas and all through the house, not a creature was stirring...except for the sugar laden, wall bouncing, Santa anticipating kids.

So we made some ginger bread...





and the boys worked on their pine wood derby cars for boy scouts.



I'm going to sneak a twin turbo system on the cars while they sleep.

This is Awesome!

Best video game since Frogger!

Brownies, cookies and skeletons

It's cold in Texas these days.


Yes, we even got snow. Not much snow...but snow just the same.


As the snow falls our minds turn to thoughts of Santa, elves and child labor.

It's time once again for the kids to take a trip into the cookie mines to earn their keep by producing holiday goodness.





Good thing the kids work for free because this kind of quality control is what got the big three in trouble.


I'm not sure what's up with Skelletor. Best not to ask.


Mama took this one...brownie Xmas party.

Shooting the family

I don't get the chance to spend much time in front of the lens these days. So the great Dan Dalstra of Studio979 fame came out and shot the heck out of the whole family. The guys at Studio979 are a little expensive but if you want best it's going to cost you. ;)