Some Christmas Break and Andrew's Birthday Party

On Andrew's actual birthday, AKA the Day before Christmas Eve, we went dowtown to go ice skating at Central Market and found to our dismay that they were booked through 5 p.m. So we went in to Central Market and got donuts and hot cocoa. All the pics this day were taken by Jacob.

Next we went to the Capitol. Mainly to kill time since we were already downtown, but we are always sucked in by its charms and history.
Isn't it so cool that this cannon was used in the Civil War?! Jacob and I spent much of our time on the grounds in the frigid weather (it really was cold! Like in the 30's!) reading the inscriptions on all the monuments. He and I are good museum buddies.

Looking up at the rotunda. He worked for a long time to get a shot he liked.

He took about a million pictures of all the paintings in the place. Bet you can guess what this is a painting of.

And what's a day without a Lego stop motion video? This is the first picture. Andy is quite unexperienced in this art form, but is persistent.

This last shot cracked me up. Just in case you needed clarification at the end.

Here is Andrew's party. Nani made the awesome dark chocolate cake and Jacob made the topper.

Uncle Kris has a birthday in December as well, so we made it a combo party and had lots of fun. Huge mexican fiesta dinner made by yours truly and lots of great company.

Kris showing off his new duds. Watch out ladies. (:

There was dancing....

and just plain chaos.

The Anderson boys. Look at ALL.THAT.HAIR.

Awwww...sweetness. And at the time we were dogsitting the best dog on the planet. We wanted to keep her. We miss you, Sandy!!!