Happy 2011! We are back from our Christmas travels and are enjoying a couple of days at home before we get back into the swing of things. The Christmas decorations are still up and I still have some things to put back away from our trip but thought that I would do a quick blog before delving back into it.

Last night we enjoyed our fire pit and some sparkling grape juice with the kids before bed. They thought that they were pretty cool drinking bubbly out of a breakable glass. The simple pleasures of life.

This morning we headed back to the exotic animal ranch that we love and spent the morning with the animals. As always we had fun and I think that the camels were more of a hit this time than last. We had the sun roof open on the truck and the camels felt that it was an open invitation to come on in. the kids were laughing hysterically and trying to avoid them before we finally got there heads back out and closed it up.

The sad news at our house is that Eli's beloved pumpkin (that he paid $35 of his own money for in case you did not see that blog...) had finally began to rot and we had to throw it out. We did however have to take one more picture of him with it by the tree to prove that it lasted as long as it did.

I will get back to a Christmas update but thought it would be easier to do today and then backtrack.