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Sorry, it has been a while since I last updated this site.  Things were pretty busy through December, and I sort of got out of the habit of writing posts.  Anyways, our Christmas was good.  Lenie and I went out to Portland for the Christmas break.  I am including some pictures from our trip.  We got their the week before Christmas, and the Portland area was suffering the one of the largest snow storms in history.  The whole metro area was shut down and we couldn’t leave the house until Christmas eve.  We ended up not even celebrating Christmas until the Saturday after since my sister Heidi couldn’t make the drive from North Dakota because of their snow problems.

The first picture below is a Saturday morning before my sister arrived.  See how those presents are so nicely arranged around the tree?  That was my doing.  Lenie and I decided not to spend much on each other this year since we ended up buying ourselves a Nintendo Wii and Guitar Hero World Tour.  I did however get her a few scrapbooking things, and she got me a razor and a wallet.  My mom ended up buying Lenie a Cricut cutter, which is a pretty cool machine that cuts out scrapbooking designs.  Lenie was so surprised that she ended up crying!  The picture below is her holding her Cricut after wiping the tears.

My big gift was a Garmin GPS thing that I got from my parents.  I had been needing something like that for a long time since I have no sense of direction.  Honestly I still get lost in downtown Hillsboro (the city I grew up in for 19+ years).  We use the Garmin all the time, especially going to Salt Lake or other addresses we do not know.  It made it really easy to find KFC for Lenie, and it sure beats using online maps.

We had a really nice holiday and had to go back to Utah way too soon.

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