Holidays 2012 looked like this

For the record, this is probably the first time Ive seen my brother in camo. The holidays really came together for M and I when my family announced mid-way through December that they would be joining us from Manitoba on the island for New Years. I was so so happy, the holidays just are not the same with out them!! We had 5 days filled with full on family time. Together we toured the impressive Butchart Gardens holiday displays, to a good old forest tromp, sizing up trees larger than most of us had ever seen, enjoying the thick moss and luscious ferns and even spying on some local Roosevelt Elk, a walk to the Kinsol Tressel, we walked the streets of downtown Victoria and sampled coffee on every corner, and rang in the New Year with a wild game of Dutch Blitz!