As you can see by the lack of recent posts, I still have a lot to learn about a blog! But I’m here now. And just made it by one day because 2010 is right around the corner! I have some posts I’m working on about Durban but for now, here’s some updates about what I’ve been doing lately.

I’m on vacation at the moment and thought I’d give a quick recap in pictures. I was able to fly to New Hampshire to see family for Christmas. The best part was seeing my nephew and niece! I’ve only seen my niece once when she was about a month and a half old. She’s now 10 months old. It was so much fun seeing the both of them! Here are some of the best pictures:

This is James with his new costume of Captain America. Except he didn’t seem to really care about Captain America. It’s all about ninjas, knights and pirates. This is what he calls his ninja outfit.

James is home-schooled and learning how to write his letters and numbers. My brother makes sure James has a broad vocabulary…notice James learning how to write the word ’shun’. I thought it was hilarious. I mean, c’mon, what 4 year old knows how to spell shun and it’s definition?!

Cate loves the camera! She always smiled when it was out and when it flashed. She usually had her brow furrowed or upraised eyebrows in question but I caught her simply curious here. It was so fun to be around her and just learn who she is! She hasn’t perfected crawling or words yet but it’s fun to watch. She has such a funny guttural laugh too!

Cate loved the Santa hat we kept putting on her head. It matched the outfit I gave her perfectly!

Cate opening up presents Christmas morning! She couldn’t quite open them herself so James jumped at every opportunity to help. Much of the time she was so distracted with the paper itself : )

New Hampshire made sure not to disappoint me with winter. It was about 30 degrees when I got there but didn’t stay there. The last couple of days were in the single digits with 45 mph wind gusts providing a -10 degree wind chill! Of course it snowed too. Not too much but just enough not to let me down.

I’m glad to be back home though. More posts to come about all things 2009 and the greater things to come for 2010!