Christmas has come and gone.

My brother Doug and his wife Yumi came to town for Christmas, so we all got together for an impromptu party on Christmas eve at my parents house. It's not that often that we get to be together as a family. We had a great time.

Dad read Luke II from the old family bible.



Yumi and Doug brought their dogs, Alex and Conan. I'm sure to Asher Alex looks like a full sized Doberman.

Christmas Day
Julie says this is a good picture of me. So the next time we go out I'll just remember: Half dressed, messy hair, sleepy with eye buggers is a good look for me.


Friendly cooperation before the all out war of "Dart Blaster" supremacy.

Whether it makes you sad or relieved Christmas has come and gone. The anticipation, the magic, the bills and, headaches. Christmas has come and gone. Now we are left with the paper and boxes. I guess that's not all that is left. We have lots of pictures, and we are grateful that we have a large family to share them with. For the last time this year, Merry Christmas everyone.

Santa

Julie took John and Will to get their pictures taken with Santa. I guess he is the biggest toddler rock star their is, cause they would wait in line for hours just to take a picture with him.

I don't know if I like this picture or not. The boys are clearly head and shoulders taller this year compared to last year. You know what? I heard that because of Osteoporosis older people begin to lose bone density there by become shorter. Santa must me pushin' 2000 years old. All the cookies and milk in the world couldn't give him enough calcium to keep him from shrinking away. Wow, that makes me feel a lot better knowing that Santa is shrinking and that the boys are not getting bigger.

A Condie family Christmas

We had the Condie family Christmas party at our house this year. I must admit I felt a little like Clarke Grizwald hosting the party this year. Accept my family lacks crazy senility, mostly likes each other and has learned to at least be civil if all else fails.

The day started with watching ASU beat BYU in basketball 76-75. I went to ASU.


Katie, Ryan; Brian, Brett; Sue, Charlie; and Dad.

Sue and Charlies youngest, Asher, is the most adorable little boy. I still can't figure out why they gave him bricks for Christmas.
Brian and Brett's youngest is Breanna. She is so sweet and cute, yet she bangs with the rest of the kids.

The day ended the way it started. We watched UofA beat BYU in the Pioneer Bowl 31-21. Brian went to UofA.

Merry Christmas to all.

Like everyone else we have been enveloped by the Holidays. We put up our tree last week, every once in a while another piece of decoration finds it's appropriate corner to sit in. By the time we are finished it will be time to take it all down again.



One other thing. The first post election gun show was this weekend. Talk about some nut jobs. All I wanted to do was buy a few thousand rounds of ammunition and maybe an assault rifle or two and go home to my family. Sometimes I think they take this stuff way too seriously.


I can't show any more than this or "they" will revoke my membership to the Tin Foil Hat Club.
Have merry self regulated Christmas.