long time, no post

our last post was in september. how sad! i've made it one of my new year's resolutions to update our blog more frequently. mark and i had a great christmas! although we were originally planning to spend christmas in washington, we ended up spending the holidays at home. but after hearing about all the hullabaloo with snow and delayed flights, i'm glad we were home away from the chaos! 

we spent a couple of days with my parents in my hometown of

eagle river. we were lucky enough to spend christmas with the walkers (stephanie, michael and katelin), our good family friends. steve was stuck working on the slope, so the walker family will have a delayed christmas celebration with the whole family later this week. every year, the walker/dobson/hamlin clan does a gag gift exchange, which is always entertaining! steve drew me this year... i got a hannah montana make-up set. lucky me! ;) 

we got a nintendo ds from mark's family, so we'v

e had a lot of fun playing with that. we now have a cooking game, brain game (sudoku included), mario kart and yoga! the nintendo ds is like a new version of gameboy, which craig and i used to have when we were younger.  fun, fun!!  here's a pic of mark trying to figure it out, with our feline helpers, of course!

my brother, craig, got us a great cookbook called amuse-bouche.  he's in culinary school at cook street in denver right now... maybe he thinks i can actually cook things that are in this book (???)  amuse bouche means single, bite-sized hors d'oeuvre.  i told him that it's a bit over my head, but we will see. it's always fun to try new taste treats!