Prison Break

Greetings from Vail, Colorado!  

The Phelps family relocated from the insane assylum to Vail on Christmas day.  We woke up at 8:30, opened our gifts, enjoyed our standard Christmas Day breakfast of Dad's scrambled eggs and Bloody Marys, Will's berries and cream, and Mom's Pillsbury Grands cinnamon rolls.  'Twas a truly classy affair.

After eight hours of travel, we arrived at our very good family friends (the Lorenzens) townhouse.  The Lorenzen family includes the mom and dad: Gina and Jim, and their two children, Kara and Tom.  My dad and Jim were fraternity brothers at the Sigma Chi chapter at Colorado College.  It's amazing that these two men came out of college as heterosexuals, seeing as four of their fraternity bothers came out of the closet post-college.  After my parents got married and moved to Colorado, Jim and Bill reconnected, and Andrea and Gina were fast friends.  They shared a genuine love for Chardonnay, dinner parties, shopping, and babies.

Side note:  I've got to share my favorite story about Gina.  When they first started having babies, they were pretty much clueless.  Gina had Tom after Will and I had been born, and one day my mom invited them over for a playdate.  My mom watched Gina through the window as she attempted to transport Tom from the car to the house.  

Gina successfully removed Tom from the carseat, and spent about five minutes struggling to get him into his Baby Bjorn, so that they could safely enter the house.  It never occurred to her that she could simply carry Tom into the house by hand!  The process of being a new mother is just so amazing and hysterical to me, I can't wait till my girlfriends and I go through that together.

Anyways, we have been having the time of our lives.  My stomach is sore from all of the belly laughs we've enjoyed.  Stay tuned: I've got some good ones coming - particularly heavy in "Quotes by Andrea".