Winter is coming, strike that, it's here!

You looking at my Christmas cookie?

Happy Winter everyone! The Winter Solstice is tomorrow. The best reason to celebrate this? The days will now begin to get longer! Good stuff. Celebrations and followings of the Winter Solstice. [Wikipedia and New York Times]

Fantasy season is over for both of my teams. The Fort Wayne team has a huge lead in the 9th Place Bowl. That's basically a 4 team tournament for the teams not good enough to make the real playoffs. I'm winning that. In Warsaw, I'm the Fantasy Bowl Champion! It's my first year playing up there and I had a great team dropped in my lap. Having Vick as my QB certainly helped. Quite a big payday for winning that Fantasy Bowl, less so if I get the 9th Place Bowl title. But a payday is a payday, no matter how much you get! In Warsaw, you get to engrave the trophy. I just have to decide on what to put on there...By the way, in case you're wondering, 2011 draft is in 255 days.

With Grandma at the Sleigh Bell party

Christmas shopping is pretty much done at the Sheridan house. I don't think it will be this easy to hide things from Rowan next year. So far, she'll forget about things she sees and move on to other stuff. She met Santa this past weekend at the FW Philharmonic Sleigh Bell Party on Saturday. She really just hung on to daddy so we could get a photo and a really cool Vera Bradley stocking. Well done by the Philharmonic staff!

Matthew's House had their 2nd annual Christmas pageant last Friday night and it was a huge success. Rowan had all her grandparents, Uncle Zach, cousin Harrison, and Aunt Lynnette in attendance. She loved it.

After getting home that night, I realized I've been very bad about updating photos on our Picasa Albums. So....I put up over 200 photos this weekend!
September - Sheridan golf outing, bonfire, camping in Bloomington
October - Ella and Grace visit, Brown County, snowball bush bonfire, Halloween
November - Papa's birthday, Thanksgiving
December - Ella Peden visit, breakfast with St. Nicholas

Some quick linkage I've been hanging on to:

Hanging with Nana at the Pageant

The Cubs new manager finds peace while fishing. [Chicago Sun-Times]

NFL wide receiver Chris Henry lost his life in an auto accident last year. His mother turned her tragedy around to help others. This is an amazing story. [LA Times]

Man's best friend might also be the best medicine. Thanks for the link Depune. [KHOU]

Reading with Aunt Lynnette at the pageant

Oh, and here is last week's News Quiz. [Chicago Tribune]

Hope you all have a wonderful and safe Christmas!

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