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Sometimes great weeks come out of nowhere. It's like getting an email from Ingbat Singat in India saying that he needs to wire a million dollars to America and has selected you to do it for him. In exchange for your bank account information he will give you 20% of the million bucks. Initially you'd think it was a scam, but then for a minute you think, "What if this is real?" So you try it, and you know what? It is a scam, but now you know and will never do it again, so really, it turned out to be pretty great in the end. Weeks can be like that.

This week was that kind of week. We put up a bunch of Christmas lights, I had an awesome birthday, and we went snowboarding on Saturday! Unfortunately we didn't get any pictures of us snowboarding, we were having too much fun to worry about stopping to take a few silly pictures, but let me just say, the snow was awesome! It was light, fluffy, soft powder. Perfect conditions for a snowboard season opener!

Here are a few pics from the rest of the week:

Max loved helping with all the Christmas lights. Many of you know he has a strange obsession with lights (it was after all, his first word). He wanted to eat this set of rope lights. Our son is very bright!

Here is the house in all it's glory.

For my birthday Shayla made me this awesome cake that looks like a map of the world. I have the best wife ever!


Here are a few videos for your viewing pleasure.

This is Max eating the lights. I didn't try them myself, but they look pretty good.

Other than eating lights, Max discovered the wonders of ketchup!

Max loves Christmas! He has a hard time waiting to open his presents. I keep hoping he will open one of mine, but so far no luck. He has only opened his.