Christmas 2008

This year we made our first ginger bread house. It was fun with David and Jaylin helping me, but they would rather eat the candy then "waste it" decorating the house. It turned out pretty good and the kids have already started eating the candy off it.

Christmas Eve we had our family Christmas Party at Rumbi Grill. My niece is the manager and was able to get the whole place reserved just for our family. It was so much fun hanging out with family and eating good food. We sang Christmas songs and Santa came and the kids got to sit on his lap and get a present. That made it really fun for the kids.

Christmas morning the kids came down the stairs and were so excited to see all their presents under the tree. We opened our presents and then we had pancakes, bacon, and sausage for breakfast. We watched WALL E and Kung Fu Panda and munched all day long. It was a really nice relaxing day. On a side note, on Christmas Eve we were getting ready to go to the party and the kids were in our room playing under our bed which is where I hid their presents. I told them to get out from under the bed and David said "There are presents, can I open them?" I told him "Those presents aren't for you" to which he replied "This one says David" Can I just say that boy is too smart for his own good!

The first two pictures I posted are of Jaylin on Christmas Eve in 2006 and Avery on Christmas Eve in 2008 wearing the same outfit. Jaylin was 11 months at the time of the picture and Avery was 9 months at the time of the picture. It was big on Jaylin and fit perfectly on Avery, she is a big cuddly baby. We hope everyone had a Merry Christmas and will have a Happy New Year!!!



Jaylin and David Christmas 2006

Avery in the same outfit Jaylin wore in 2006

Our Gingerbread house David and Jaylin decorated

Jennifer leading us in Christmas songs hoping Santa will come soon.

Everyone having a great time hanging out at Rumbi Grill
on Christmas Eve

David sitting on Santa's lap

Jaylin sitting on Santa's lap

Avery was intrigued with Santa

Happy baby Avery on Santa's lap

David & Jaylin coming down the stairs Christmas morning

David checking out all the presents under the tree

Avery, Jaylin, & David before opening their presents
Christmas morning.

Kids opening their presents

David & Jaylin opening up their present of all kinds
of Crayola stuff.

Avery crawling all over the presents trying to decide
which one to play with.

David & Jaylin watching WALL E Christmas morning

Check out the icicles on our house

The icicles are everywhere!!!

On the 26th we celebrated my dear sister Kim's 46th birthday. She passed away almost four years ago from ALS. My mom, dad, sisters, brother, and I went to her grave today and sang Happy Birthday to her. We all went to the Happy Sumo for lunch and talked about some memories of her we had and we just had a good time enjoying each other's company. I miss Kim so much and wish she were still here with us. I find myself thinking about her almost every day. We love you and miss you so much Kim. Happy Birthday.