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Christmas Morning 2009

We are just learning how to use our video camera. So... here is a tiny experiment with it!

Snowman Cookie

Grandma Nana gave snowman cookies to all the children on Christmas Eve. They were really cool. They had half melted snowmen on top of them.

Gingerbread Houses

Trimming the Tree

A couple hours later I discovered these bells in the couch.

A tree of our very own!

The last several years we have traveled to see family for Christmas. This year we live in the same state as our family so we are staying here. One word of advice it to remember how tall your ceiling is. Patrick thought it was nine feet tall. I assured him it was ten feet. Taking my word for it and ending up with a nine foot ceiling meant we had to chop 12 inches off the top!



Luckily there is a nursery two blocks from our house. Patrick was able to help get the tree during his lunch break.

Christmas Tree Sword
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Pumpkin Patch 2009

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Halloweens

We heard a rumor that the Eror's were setting up their "Halloweens" today. So, we went to check it out.

This is the spectacular Autumn view from my parents' front yard.


Grandpa Steve is a good sport... up on the roof tacking down an enormous blow up spider. It amazing what he will do to get the grandkids excited about Holidays.

Easter 2009

Today was Easter Sunday. We had a great day. In the morning we had brunch with some friends. But before that Alex got to eat a lot of candy!

Alex and the eggs
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DYING EASTER EGGS IS FUN!!!



Tada!

Dying Easter Eggs
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A happy silly face proves how much fun Alex is having.

Alex chats up the camera
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Yesterday, our friends the Harpers invited Alex to Reina's egg hunt. Reina tried to help Alex a few times... she was really good at collecting eggs. She would get his bag and bring it to him. But, he thought it was really fun to re-hide the eggs. I love this picture of us on the couch. You can see Alex and Reina were happy to see each other. From left to right Heather, Baby Ivy, Heather's mom, Me, Alex and Reina.



I loved how patient Reina was with him. She shared candy. She waited and waited for him to pick up eggs. She didn't hoard them. She was so sweet. We love Reina. She was so nice to share with us.

The Hunt
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When Alex says, "op-it!" It means, "Open it."

The Hunt Up Close and Personal
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New Years Eror Family Ski Day

We had an awesome time at Alta with the Eror Fam this winter even though the day turned out to be frigid. Here is Grandma Judy and Grandpa Steve skiing with Carsen.



Alex thought my goggles were cool. He kept asking to try them on.



Since is was pretty cold we kept Alex in the lodge for most of the day. But that is ok, because he had a baked potato and gummy bears!



I can't believe we have it on video, but here it is. Carsen is skiing from his daddy to his grandpa! Carsen you are awesome!!!!!

Carsen Skiing
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Georgeous Day at Snowbird!

We couldn't believe how beautiful the weather turned out to be... especially after it started out so crummy!



I forgot to put on my knee pads before I put on my snow pants. So this photo looks incriminating because I have my snow pants pulled down around my knees and I am bent over on the side of the road putting them on. In reality I had about six layers covering everything. So. the photo wasn't as bad as it looks.

Snowbird Tunnel
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Dad, Patrick and I decided to take the tunnel from the Peruvian lift to Mineral Basin. We had a little dance party in there.

The Boar's Head Carol

On a Sunday afternoon several weeks before Christmas Patrick and I heard the most inspiring piece of music we had yet to hear in our lifetime, The Boar's Head Carol. believe it or not it is a real christmas carol. Legand has it that a Student at Queen's college at Oxford over 500 years ago was attacked by a boar on Christmas. He choked the boar with a copy of Aristotle, cut of its head and wrote a song about his experience.



The culinary arts are something we take seriously in the Eror house. Every year at Christmas time we attempt new and glorious culinary feats. This year Catherine's white chocolate orange mousse in a cup layered with chocolate mousse was the winner. In years past we have had enjoyed dishes such as roast goose and seared foi gras. (Well most of us love foi gras... in my opinion it best left unseared and eaten strait out of a can!) We like to try the new and fabulous. (Some of us, think that the new stuff is scary and would rather watch from a reasonable distance.) And its ok that Catherine doesn't like seafood and Melissa doesn't like unusual textures and I hate all green salad. We all take part and make due and often we make marvelous discoveries. It was at meals like this that we developed a love of stinky cheeses and perrier. Well, the boars head carol gave us an idea. A real culinary shocker!



Imagine the families' suprise as mom stood and put a green felt hat on her head and with a strait face recited the story of the boars head carol along with a translation of the latin lines in the song. As she finished her lines Patrick and I jump out from the corner with a pigs head roasted and bedecked with bays and rosemary singing the boars head carol. We wore tights and tunics along with the beautiful hats that mom made.



The best part was that no one expected it. Carsen thought that it was awesome until Grandpa told him he had to try it... then he freaked out. This video is awesome. Watch for Carsen standing on his chair at the end of it! This is a video of Mike trying it. And ofcourse most of us took a bite or two... Why? because we are the Eror family... and when it comes to food we are a pretty adventurous group. However I think mom drew the line at narrator and didn't actually try any. Catherine did you try some? I can't remember.

Mike takes a bite
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If you don't have a weak stomach you can watch this weird video of mom and I trying to figure out how to open it's mouth for an apple. I don't know if it was rigor or what but we couldn't get it's mouth open. Patrick attempted prying it open with his bear hands... and keep in mind he had the flu at the time.

opening the pigs mouth
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Here is the first verse of the song... Sorry about my bad latin spelling.

The boars head in hand bear I bedecked with bays and rosemary!
I pray you my maasters be merry
Qui estis in convivio!

Caput Apri Defero
Reddens Laudes Domino

I just want to make a special thank you to my team
to mom our translator, costume designer, and co conspiritor (have no idea how you kept a strait face!)
Patrick for the guts to go through with it
and the Barnes for driving to the middle of nowhere to find a slaughter house and then letting us store the head in your garage for a while. And you didn't even get to try it.

Santa Cookies

Christmas Eve we slept at Grandma Judy and Grandpa Steve's. We got there just in time to decorate some cookies with Carsen and Raegan and to go to bed.



Alex caught on quickly to cookie decorating by following Carsen's example.



Carsen took his cookie decorating very seriously and he was excited to show his sister and cousin how to do it.



It is a good thing that there were pink sparkles for Raegan to put on her cookies... pink is her favorite. if you ask her she'll say pink is her favorite and red is Carsen's.



The two cousins were really sweet to Alex. There were really sad that he had to go to bed. Raegan kept telling me that Alex wasn't tired. (He agreed with her... but he fell asleep quickly.) He was so glad to have little cousins who wanted to play with him.

Barneseve 2009

Alex bonds with certain people very quickly. He really liked Jeff.



Linda got Elizabeth and Alex on her lap. The kids were both a bit subdued because they weren't feeling very well. It was fun to see Elizabth share Grandma with Alex.



It puts a bit of a damper on the holidays when you have the flu on Christmas Eve. Alex still had a good time he was just very mellow... and not as busy as he normally is.

Crimson Kids Christmas Party

The party decorations were beautiful. I wish I had taken more pictures. Alex loved the ballons. He kept dragging me over to show them to me. He loved the decorations. His Aunt Melissa would be proud of her nephew who appreciated the details.


Alex naturally gravitated towards his buddy Reina. (As he does at every party.) He doesn't necessarily want to play WITH her he wants to play NEXT to her.


That was Alex's honest reaction when Santa entered the room.


Reina was thrilled to meet Santa.


The boys ready to go home.

I can't tell here if Alex was gloating because we didn't make him to sit on Santa's lap. All I know is that once Santa left his mood improved.


Alex escaped with a balloon.