Post Holiday Post Football Blogging Resumes

The editors apologize for the lack of updates, but the holidays were just too much to write about. Don't misunderstand - they were great, Henry and Dad and Mom had a great holiday season, and Henry is enjoying his abundance of new toys. The problem is that there is simply too much to try to capture. The effort involved in trying to write a post that will meet expectations and sum up the entire experience was giving me heartburn, and in putting it off, I've been derelict in my blog-updating duties.

So, I'm going to skip it. Hopefully it suffices to say that the holidays were great; now we'll move on.

Most years, the post-holiday season in Pittsburgh means one thing - playoff football! You may have heard that our team, the Pittsburgh Steelers just won their sixth Lombardi Trophy, merely proving what we already knew to be true: the Pittsburgh Steelers are the most successful franchise in the NFL.

Henry watched most of the games with Mom and Dad, and the Beres grandparents G-Pap and Lulu/Mimi (still working on her name, but that's a whole different subject). During the post-season, Henry would learn to be a little wary of Steelers' touchdowns, as the whole room would break into cheers and yells.

Henry watching the Super Bowl pregame. (You can tell it's the pregame because he's not wearing his Steelers jersey. A very strict tradition in the Culbertson House is that jerseys are ONLY worn during the game. They go on at kickoff and come off when the game ends (or in special circumstances, after the celebration (see: Super Bowl, winning a Sixth)). This helps preserve the power of the jersey.)

...and that, Henry, is why he was the Defensive Player of the Year!

Halftime! Henry refused to wear his 3-D glasses.

After the win, with just a few of our vast selection of Terrible Towels.

After winning an NFL-record sixth National Championship - and can I tell you how good it feels just to type that? - it was time to hit the streets for a little bit of celebration, where our meticulously detailed Lombardi Trophy was a hit:

Us with few hundred of our new close friends