The Most Wonderful Time of the Year

One of my favorite ESPN commercials is the one they ran for a few years during Bowl Season. They declared Bowl Season as the most wonderful time of the year-and it is!! It just so happens that it coincides with Christmas and New Years. I started a new family tradition last year-the annual Pulsipher family Bowl Pick-em Challenge. Everyone sends in their picks for each bowl before the first one starts, and winner so far only gets bragging rights (we need to up the ante). I only got one game right yesterday (BYU over UTEP), but everyone in my family got that right so I'm not doing that great. Justin, my brother -in-law, is in the lead batting 1000 so far. I am proud of my sister for finding and marrying such a great sports prognosticator, but I hate him for beating me (I think he won last year too). I have mixed feelings to say the least.
Christmas season is really here, I finished my shopping, made a gingerbread house, saw the lights at temple square, went to our ward's Christmas party, watched the First Presidency's Christmas message, and went to a Christmas fireside.
Here's to the best Christmas ever!!

The Monkey's Uncle

Who remembers the 60s Disney Classic with the chimp and Tommy Kirk? The Monkey's Uncle was an instant classic. While everyone who knows me well knows that I don't like animals unless they are grilled and on my dinner plate, I do like being an uncle and sometimes it seems like my nephew and nieces are little monkeys, climbing all over the place and look at those cheesey grins! I got to see them all for Thanksgiving at my parent's house, and it was a blast, they are so fun. We played hide and seek and button button, read books, watched movies, and ate a lot of good food!

Above is Grant (4) and Olivia (2) in one picture and Brynlee (almost 2) in the other. Cute little monkeys huh?