Our Christmas

Christmas Eve we had our Christmas with just the 6 of us. It pretty much lasted the whole day :)

We got up at the early hour of 9 am. ;) Our tradition is to have creamed eggs on toast for breakfast or dinner, depending on when we are doing presents. We ate our brunch around 10:30 and opened presents after. 

We open presents 1 at a time, youngest to oldest. Dad wanted Mom to open this present first. Notice where he is sitting and that he has the pillows stacked up to protect himself. :) It was a candle that Mom had in the cupboard that she already used. :)

One of David's presents from Evan. He had cut his finger on a can while making something, hence the big box of band-aids :)

Evan painted this in his art class.

Mom got us these aprons from the Haiti sale. 

Gum anyone? ;)

This is the stitching on the middle pocket of mine. It is all hand-stitched by the Haitian ladies!

Can you guess who we got these from?

After presents, we just hung out for a while and played games. Dad had to go feed the neighbors animals, so him, Mom, David, & Carla went for a walk. I went to my aunts house to feed the fish since they are on vacation.

For dinner, everyone had to make an appetizer. We had shrimp, pigs in a blanket, mexican taco dip, hot pepper jelly on cream cheese with crackers, chicken wings, and stuffed mushrooms. Quite healthy! ;)

It was a nice relaxing day!

Hope everyone had a blessed Christmas and has a Happy New Year!

Gerber Christmas

Sunday December 8th we had our Gerber Christmas because U. Doug & A. Jane's family is in Florida over Christmas. With the whole family we do a yankee swap and then just hang out for the evening.

Sam :)

Josie & me

December 4th was U. Doug & A. Jane's 25th Anniversary. Their kids got them this cake with a picture from their wedding on it.

Officially Done!

I am now officially done with school until January 10th!! Because of the snow that we had on Tuesday, the college closed at 4 PM so my exam time was postponed until today at 4:30 PM. After my work holiday party I drove down to school, dropped my CD (with 4 pictures on it) at my teachers office and drove home again!

Although I have no homework I am sure to keep busy with all the stuff that Mom says I have to do :)

Two Sunday's ago we had the Gerber Christmas at my aunt's house so pictures from that to come soon!

Almost done

for the semester!!

Today I emailed my last paper of the semester (thankfully!!) to my teacher since she won't be on campus tomorrow during the exam time. Also tomorrow, I have to turn in my final project for my 3D class. I get to drive all the way there (40 min) to turn in a CD with 4 pictures on it and then turn around and come all the way home! Oh well, that's ok, because once I get home that means I'm done until January 10th!! :)

Here's a sample of my final project

 In this class we learned how to use the software called Maya. We created our coffee packaging project from last semester. It's neat stuff but not something I really want to do full time. It's intense and requires a lot of memorizing how to do things.

To view my first live site, go to beutel.ccsudesign.com. Our final project in web 2 was to create a portfolio site for ourselves and then put it on the server. Not sure exactly what happened when it got put on the server, but somehow the image links got broken so not all images will display a bigger image when you click on it (in the portfolio section). If you are interested you can "contact me" and let me know what you think. The contact form actually works! If you fill in everything and hit submit, I'll get an email. No dumb comments please :)