The Longest Christmas Season

I think that this year, Christmas lasted for about 3 months. Jason and I had our own Christmas on December 25th, of course. After that, we went to visit his family as you can read about here. We spent the last of December and New Years with them. 

After coming home in January, every few weeks I'd get either an e-mail, phone message, or text message from someone in my family saying that there was going to be a Christmas package coming at some point. I think the first package that arrived later in January was from Jul and Linden. Jason, who was still working night-shifts at that time wanted to hurry up and open the package before he went to work that night.

There were specific instructions in the package on what Jason was to open and what I was to open.

Christmas Vacation

This past Christmas, our vacation took us to Missouri and Arkansas. Sadly, we were not able to make it to Virginia this time. On our drive to Missouri, we passed a museum that I have asked about every single time I have driven past it (which is about 4 or 5 times now). This time, we decided to stop. That's what vacations are all about, right?

Outside of this giant building is lots of huge military vehicles, which is what always caught my eye driving past.

It's Been Awhile.....

.....since I posted anything on here. As in close to 4 months. My last posts were continuing the journey that Jul, Linden, and I did around Tasmania. I have another post in the series started, but not finished. But I decided that I was going to take a bit of time tonight to try and post more current things.

One of the biggest events so far this year was when my sister, Katie, came out to visit for a week.

 She got to experience a great Wyoming winter, minus the wind, while she was here. I think the warmest day we had during her visit was probably around 15 degrees.

A Snippet of Our Daily Life

There is a certain person in this house that has gone soft for Gunther. There was a hard-fast rule established when we got Gunther that he was not allowed on the furniture or on the bed. As you can see, that rule has gone by the wayside. This person's excuse? "But Gunther snuggles with me while I sleep during the day." Since someone else broke the rule first, I must confess that I now use Gunther to warm up my feet at night!

Queenstown, Tasmania

Coming down the west side of Cradle Mountain into Queenstown, there was an old Iron Blow.

This was an open cut copper ore mine, if I understand correctly.