Happy Birthday Great Grandma!

Jeffrey and Meredith's great-grandma Johnson celebrated her 90th birthday on Saturday. Congratulations! There was a very nice reception that I (Mike) went to. Here's a photo of me with Grandma Axtell, Uncle Steve, and great-grandma:

From December 2010

The kids and Gwen unfortunately had to say home -- everyone's been sick and we don't want it to spread to much.

Meredith has been working on sitting up. She can sit up well if she has some reinforcement, as you can see:

From December 2010

Today, I am putting up the xmas lights on the house. There are rules for when this is to occur. The 1st weekend in December is when the lights should go up, regardless of the weather. Also, the xmas tree goes up the second weekend of December. These are the rules people -- any earlier is too early!

In years past Gwen, Jeffrey, and I would go together to cut down the tree from a local tree farm. But we've learned our lesson. Jeffrey never has liked going and always cries and cries. Last year this led to some urgency in selecting our tree and in the end I made a rather poor tree choice. Not going to happen this year -- I'm going solo and coming back with a good tree without toddler strife. .. stay tuned.

Recent photos (full size) in the picassa albums:

http://picasaweb.google.com/axtell.mj/November2010#
http://picasaweb.google.com/axtell.mj/December2010#