Happy New Year!

We had a late Christmas/early New Years celebration with my Dad on December 27. The day was full of eating, cooking and playing cards. One of our family traditions is to create little pigs out of lemons as good luck charms for the upcoming year. It is a Austrian tradition that my Dad has shown us and one that we have done all throughout our childhood. We got pretty creative with some of our pigs this year as you can see from the group shot shown above.

2007 was a really busy year for us and we look forward to 2008 and all of the wonderful memories that it will bring. Happy New Year to all of you!

A White Christmas with the Hamilton Family

We had a great Christmas celebration with the Hamilton family on the 25th. It snowed all day and we spent a wonderful day together eating, playing and opening gifts. Olivia got a rocking horse that she abosutely loves, it makes her squeal with delight everytime that she sees it. Here are some pictures from our day together:

Christmas with the Zollner Family

We thoroughly enjoyed our first Christmas with Olivia. We were able to take some extra days off work and spend time with our families. Olivia loved having all of the relatives around, I don't think that she ever sat down by herself or went to bed on time. We had Christmas #1 with my Mom and sisters on the 23rd of December.

We also got another present that we weren't expecting, my sister Litti got engaged to her boyfried Mike! We are very excited to welcome Mike into the family (get ready Mike!) and Brody is thrilled to have another man in the family.

Here are some pictures of our Christmas together:

A gift from our Beaver Believer Aunt Stef

The newly engaged couple, Mike and Litti