Wednesday, January 2, 2008

Happy New Year!

Happy Holidays and best wishes for 2008 to all you faithful TMPBallard readers out there!

This was quite an eventful holiday season this year in addition to just the house projects. I spent an early Christmas in Toledo as well as celebrated Ray's 61st by picking out and decorating the Christmas tree with the whole gang. The eventful weekend also included a trek to Bryan, Ohio that involved detours, heated seats (except for Lynsey's, he he) and using OnStar for the first time. Oh, and Mom and Peter sharing a bottle of wine while Lyns, Dad and I decorated the tree.



It was wonderful to see everybody and I had a really great time!

Over the Christmas holiday, Craig and I joined the Williams clan south of the border in Cancun.


It was a great week of laying in the sun, Chunky (or in Katie's case Funky) Monkeys all around, scuba diving, karaoke and lots of guacamole. Very relaxing and an all-around super getaway. Other highlights included the announcement of Baby Williams coming in July (for Chris and Katie, mind you) and Maria joining us all the way from Sardinia, Italy. Salute!




More pics

I think the Karaoke part is best shown rather then explained. If there's a stage, a mic, and beer involved, you can bet the house that two of the Williams boys will take advantage of all three. While Craig had the bar rocking to Journey's "Don't Stop Believing," Nathan had at least one lady singing along (and swaying) to David Bowie's "Space Oddity." These videos are dark, but hopefully you can experience the thrill all the same :)





Now it's back to work as usual. More house updates coming soon. After all, that is what this blog is supposed to be about, right?

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