January started with a bang.  Actually, lots of bangs, as we had three friends of Will and Brie sleep over, all of whom insisted on staying up until midnight:

Followed the next day by a visit by Gram, Elaine and Jim Dickie, and Bill, Sang Ok, Andy and Dani Dickie.

We made slow progress on the wooden floors:

I’m another year older, but received  something unexpected for my birthday:

And Will held his first Yu Gi Oh tournament … I wonder who won?  Well, Will, of course!

It gave us a chance to see the difference between our old large screen TV and the 57” HDTV we just bought… Wow!