Christmas

Christmas this year was quite the success! Most of this post will consist of pictures, since I'm a bit too lazy to write a lot. First of all, I looked at the picture of us in the hallway taken last year, and compared it to this year's.

See the resemblance? Our tree was also really nice too! Dad and Katelyn spent quite a while working on it.

Katelyn's big present this Christmas was an electric drum set! She literally can't stop playing it!

This year Mom got a giant stuffed lion from Katelyn for the baby. Obviously she loved it!

Overall, it was a successful holiday. We did have one sad part to it when we found that Katelyn's hamster, Winter, had passed away overnight. We partook in a short but emotional funeral for her, and then proceeded to get back to our festivities. It killed the mood just a bit, but we still had a great day.

Hope you have a happy New Year's!

- The Blogger

Winter Break

Yeah, it's winter break for me now!

In addition to that great news, I can say that nearly all of my Christmas shopping is already done on day one! I'm usually so bad about this kind of thing every year, but I've decided to stay slightly more on top of things! Except for my music choice. I'm still listening to Mannheim Steamroller's Halloween music. I really enjoy it a bit more than the Christmas tunes I should be listening to.

Anyway it's been a fairly dull point in life here which is why I haven't blogged too much recently. Uni recently had it's finals which I studied 5+ hours for. I think I did alright in computer literacy, excellent in math, and horrible in Latin. Just what I think. Our computer literacy project due last Tuesday was an html website that we all were assigned to create. Mine pretty much came in second place, the "winner" sort of cheated his way to the top by using Flash. Mine was still one of the best. Here's the URL:

http://www.uni.illinois.edu/~abarbour

Hope it gets a few clicks! Also hope to make another post when things get more interesting (e.g. Christmas).

- The Blogger

Thanksgiving

Just like I blogged about last year, we headed up to Iowa for Thanksgiving. In case you were wondering (like I'm sure you were) my scar from playing ping pong I got from our last visit is still there. We arrived with a large fruit basket in tow, and the instant we got there, we moved right along to eating it.

The BarbouRoskes showed up not too much longer after that and we had a proper thanksgiving feast!

It was a very successful Thanksgiving, but now it's the weekend and I have to get back to doing my homework and chores.

Real quick, the Poll of the Month:

What is your least favorite season?

Winter-2

Fall-2

Spring-1

Summer-1

Hope to make a new post soon!

- The Blogger