I figured out how to get the pictures out of my burst mode camera. This is great because taking over 20 pics a second is a big help at catching kids, and the pictures come out looking fine. Here’s a pic from Bryon on Christmas day.

Now a picture of Elizabeth. She’s helping Joe to find out he’s another Maryland Lottery Looser!

One of the gifts Bryon got was a full set of Pirate rain wear. How cool is that?

Elizabeth received Ladybug rainwear. But that is no where as cool as having pirate reainwear. Her solution was to inform us that this was also pirate rainwear. So we now call it the pirate ladybug rainwear.

The day after Christmas, it snowed. We ended up with almost an inch of snow on our deck. It was great fun to play in. Shortly after the third picture, the fun promptly stopped when Bryon stuffed a snowball inside Elizabeth’s shirt.

After we took care of that, we braved the elements to walk to the club house to watch another Christmas present – Toy Story – in our neighborhood theater. It was fun walking in the snow for the first half block. The second half block required a lot more coaxing. We finally got there and watched the *very scary* movie. The moral of Toy Story is that children must play with their toys nicely. After the movie, we walked around the clubhouse counting Christmas trees and nutcrackers. When we got home, Bryon and Elizabeth promptly took out their new play tool set and attached Elizabeth’s new baby doll. I guess Toy Story encouraged a backlash against the moral.