Christmas morning....still exciting at 18, 16 and 13 years old!
Of course, opening presents is a chore when your good hand is in a cast. Notice that even while cast, the right hand is trying to "cheat."
Bandit and Penny even got a present from Santa....and they are trying to help unwrap the box. (They could smell the dog biscuits)
A favorite gift from Meghan to Cameron: A burton ski hat to match his jacket. If Cameron could talk Brianna into going snowboarding, he'd go right now!

Cameron's 18th Birthday dinner: Monster hamburgers at Grovers.....with Tom (because he is technically the oldest brother in this family--by 6 months!)
A sibling takedown.....That's what happens when she takes a bite of his food!
Christmas Eve with the cousins: A little whipped cream on the face turns into a food fight. (Left to right: Brianna, Grandpa Ralph, Emma, Mally and Meghan)
Trying to calm down the cousins in preparation for Santa's visit tonight. Meghan and Brianna with Austin and Sophie
BYU Mens Basketball came to Buffalo to play the UB Bulls. 161 of us went to cheer them on. Yes Cameron and Tom were with us, but they negotiated courtside seats while we were in the 300 section. BYU won, of course!

Early Christmas for Meghan. I think not!

Four days before Christmas, and Dr Ferrick gives Meghan a full arm cast on her functioning arm.

Spaulding Rehab Hospital warned us that this might happen: Meghan's right hand has become so dominant that the left hand isn't pulling it's weight. The automatic arm response between the brain and the left arm has never been re-established. So Mark aka "The Torturer" suggested that we remove the ability to use the right arm by casting it. Now Leftie is going to have to do everything that Meghan needs done. We pray that this will work, Meghan desperately wants two functioning hands again......but it's going to be very frustrating to only have the use of a 25% functioning hand for the next 4 weeks.

Early Christmas for Brianna

Brianna and Andrew exchange gifts early. He just can't figure out why she gave him a tiny canister of quarters!
Andrew, it looks as if jewelry was a winner!
Brianna can't stand to wait while Andrew meticulously unwraps his present. Who is more excited?
Brianna told Andrew that there were 251 parts to his present. Is he actually counting?

Family Pictures

They really are best friends. She is going to be lost without him when he leaves for college next year.
Cameron and Ralph's Porsche!
Cameron and Jeff's Camero.
Brianna and her attitude.

Meghan, and her grace

Brianna and her style.

National Honor Society

Congratulations to Brianna. She was one of 40 students admitted into the National Honor Society for 2010. Even with all this year's stress , she still managed to keep her grades up. We are proud of her!
Brianna asked my friend Bonnie, who owns a T-shirt printing business, to make a shirt to support Andrew at his wrestling tournaments. Bonnie let Brianna design the shirt, front and back.