Happy New Year! The boys had two weeks off while I only had one and Amy actually had to go into the office a few days between Christmas and New Years. We stayed home to have our first family Christmas in New Mexico in a few years and our "first Christmas morning at our current address. Owen is happy to have received several remote control cars which he now chases around the house daily. Ryan's busy building geodesic models and bionicles. We enjoyed a pre-Christmas visit from Amy's folks and after Christmas spent a few days in Durango with Phoebe. Ryan and I went skiing at Durango Mountain Resort (aka Purgatory). I enjoyed my first full-day of skiing in several years while Ryan attended ski school. The highlight for Ryan was taking his first chair lift ride. Both of us hope to get out on the slopes again soon. We spent New Year's Eve with our friends in the neighborhood and had a great time eating fried shrimp and guessing the artists and titles of songs from the 80s. Before we knew it, the break was over. The best word to describe our first day back to work on the 3rd was "foggy" but we're getting back into the swing of things. We hope all of our friends and family had a great holiday break.