The fat man has come and gone, the trees and lights are back in the attic, and the house is overflowing with toys. Christmas, it would seem, has officially come and gone. All that's left is to give you a slice of the nearly 200 photos we posted and show off a slew of videos from our three-Christmas extravaganza.

The mammoth post I had to generate last time around put us a little behind on the posting schedule, but a day late isn't so bad considering our typical lag time. Last time around, I actually broke my usual rule and covered a week and a half because our Christmas lasted into Wednesday. That leaves us with just the brief post-Christmas week to cover today.

For the first time in a long time, we had an entire week where we took a total of zero photos. Part of this was due to exhaustion in our return to work. Part of it was due to the fact that we forgot the camera bag when we took a trip out to see Max's buddy Mikey (and Owen's buddy Alex). Either way, the only evidence we have that the week happened was the shark video I posted last time around. Guess we'll just pick up a week later, when we finally got around to bringing a camera to swim class.

Looks like I might be able to squeak this one in under the wire this week. Last week was a short one work-wise as the kids had a day off from school on Monday. We decided to take advantage of the oddly nice weather and take the boys out for a long-awaited trip to the zoo. Owen had really never been there at an age where he could enjoy it, so we were well overdue.