Merry Christmas to All and to All a Short Night! Florida For the Holidays:

Merry Christmas!

You were beginning to think I had forgotten you, weren't you!

Come on!

There's no need to pretend!

Okay, so I've been a little busy... but it's all GOOD busy.  For one thing we started recording a new CD!  Psyched?  I knew you would be!  Also, we spent another day filming for the reality pilot!  Keep your fingers crossed! If everything goes according to plan we should start really filming in February! Can you believe it?!  And as if that wasn't enough of a Christmas present this year, we also got to spend time with our family here in Florida.  We decked the halls (a.k.a. Grandma and Grandpa's house),  made homemade Norwegian cookies that have been in our family for generations (my Grandmother's Norwegian.  If you can snag one for a grandparent you are lucky! ...or maybe it's just my Grandma...)  The cookies are made from a Top Secret ancient family recipe that uses butter, sugar, almond, eggs, and flour!  ...ooops!  There goes that family secret!

We sang Christmas carols accompanied by bagpipes (a cacophonous combo) to any innocent bystanders who didn't run away.  We even got my dad to wear a Christmas hat, and from a distance the pipes almost looked like a sack of toys... unfortunately no one was fooled.

My blog has become sort of infamous around our family and my Aunts and Uncles have taken to saying things like...

"Don't put that in the Blog now!"

and

"You're not going to write about me are you?"

With their best interest at heart I have therefore decided to leave their names out entirely.

So you will not hear me mention my Uncle Tom or my Uncle Leo and Aunt Jeannie (also musicians, you can find out more about them at: http://www.sleepindogz.com/ )

Consider them never mentioned ;)

We still wake up insanely early every Christmas morning.  We still jump on mom and dad's bed and drag them to where the presents wait.  We still spend every second before they come jumping in our seats until they roll into the living room and give us the go ahead.  Some things never change :)

Merry Christmas everyone!