Steve's work party

For Steve's work Christmas party this year, they took us all ice-skating. (They always do their work Christmas party at the end of January so it doesn't conflict with other Christmas activities.) Emilia was SO excited because we had gotten her a Pinkalicious book about going ice skating recently. In the book it talks about how Pinkalicious thought she would be graceful on the ice and she would do twists and turns with ease, but instead she just fell down a lot. Apparently Emilia didn't get the gist of the book, because she was VERY frustrated when she fell down a lot. We even got her one of those walkers with tennis balls on the bottom to help her stay up, but it wasn't much help. I think she just needed to be a little older and a little more courageous. Getting a balloon Ariel made up for a lot, though.

As their "Christmas bonus" Inside Sales always gives away some great prizes, but some of them are underwhelming. Last year we came away with a Sony Blue-ray player; this year--some headphones. Ah, well. At least we got something, right?