Dana Burland

Happy holidays from our resident cook and cleaner! Last year’s holiday card focused on Ben going wild for a then successful Michigan State football team. This year I wanted to reverse the roles. It’s not hard to come up with a wild setting that it would be natural to find me in—but given our ying and yang roles in the kitchen, I thought that would be a good bet. I’m a passionate, furious, adventurous and filthy cook. Ben is a non-complaining whirlwind of a semi-professional cleaner who follows behind me and makes the kitchen usable again. It’s a routine in our house, and I thought it would be fun to capitalize on the look I’ve seen on his face multiple times as he enters the war zone. I figured while the creative theme of the photo this year would be more advanced, the prep work didn’t have to be. I planned on buying a pre-cooked rotisserie chicken from the grocery store, setting up some lights and having our card done quick. But of course the day I wanted to do the photosho...

(A tad delayed, but better than never!) Shopping in Breckenridge Last weekend Ben and I were in the mountains west of Denver for a few days with my family. We squeezed the last of available vacation days for the year to spend a few days snowboarding, snowshoeing, shopping and max relaxin’. Photo taken by my brother-in-law Martin of Regan snowshoeing on our last morning in town. A week out from our trip we were worried there would be no snow. The first night we were all in town it snowed 15 inches. Photo taken by Regan out the car window after shopping in Breckenridge I pretty much took no pictures, but my siblings took a bunch. It was so great to be together with everyone, and even greater to have a beautiful back drop and a cozy mountain house (belonging to my dad’s cousin) to stay at. Photo by Martin at Copper Mountain where the boys skied and snowboarded Flying out to Denver. Staying at a mountain house. Enjoying lots of fresh snow. Relaxing with my family and...