In which we say we're sorry and make up for our prolonged absence...

After a month and a half without blogging (Hey, you try living out of a suitcase for 4 weeks, and then returning home to find that your computer won't boot up!!!), we come crawling, apologetically, back.

Sadly, I don't have any pictures of Christmas with the Francises. It appears that there was an unfortunate incident with a certain pink camera of note.... For pictures of the Ellis Christmas insanity check out my mom's blog

On New Year's Eve we went over to the Simmons' for a pretty awesome party. We played Scene It, Mormon Mouthful, and ate lots of party food. We spent a good chunk of the evening debating about whether or not Ryan Secrist is the Dick Clark of our generation. We were very pleased to see a Lionel Richie cameo at the New Year's Party (well, ... some of us more than others... ok, mostly Mike -- see Ellis Christmas Pictures). My favorite part of the evening was when Kim surprised me with a birthday cake at midnight! Yay! It was funfetti and everything! Check out her blog for a picture and some funny stories.

Shortly after all the holiday partying, Mike and I headed off on a cruise. We are not the best at taking pictures, but the day we stopped in Key West, we basically played "tag" with the camera, and so, there are a few silly shots for the blog:

This is some weird sculpture outside of the Art Museum. I look just like him, don't I? Mike found a "Key Lime Pie Factory", so how could we NOT go in and have a try. FYI, Mike reported that that was maybe the closest mankind has ever come to creating a perfect key lime pie.

I forget the name of this yummy place to eat. We got Tex Mex egg rolls and some soda when it was just too hot to continue sight seeing. I don't know. He's weird, but I love him.: "The Grandeur of the Seas", everybody: Fun piece of trivia: The yellow shopping bag that I am holding in the above picture holds the one and only souvenir we brought back from our cruise: an 11 by 14 print of the original Star Trek crew on "the bridge" to put in one of the empty frames in our wall collage. It was taped to a door on the outside of a very hippy, earthy shop on Duvall street in Key West. We thought it would be funny to ask the hemp-wearing employee inside if it was for sell, and guess what?! It was.

I am sad to say that this picture (which could be part of those "can you identify these hideous celebs without their makeup on") is the one and only picture we took in Mexico. It just shows our odd tastes and priorities, though, doesn't it?