Christmas

Alexis and I drove down to Santa Barbara to spend Christmas with my family. It was nice to see all of the family and friends, and to share the engagement excitement with everyone.

Crazy flare experimental photos.

Lake Los Caneros at dusk.

The Gruetzmachers 2009. It's crazy to think that next year we will have two new members in our family photo, Alexis and Ashley.

My dad like to assign "photo projects" to himself. This time it was shooting everyone in the Santa hat. This collage came out cool with all of his shots. I was bummed that I didn't get to see of of my other relatives in Southern California, but Alexis and I wanted to make it to dinner with her family in San Jose.
We made the drive back up north on Christmas afternoon.

Alexis' mom, Lin.

Suzy (Adam's girlfriend) is getting her shred on.

Adam (Alexis' brother) got a Wii and was trying to figure out this crazy game that it came with.

Alexis and her dad, Andy.

I like video games, but I don't think that I'm very good at them. Figuring out the Wii controller makes me feel like I'm getting old because it's SO much different from the N64 controller that I spent most of my video game career on. I'm waiting for the day when we can control video games by using our minds...

I hope that you also had an amazing Christmas as well :)