New Years!

READ THE POST BELOW THIS FOR CHRISTMAS DETAILS!!!

We flew home from our vacation on New Year's Eve, which meant waking up at 4:30 in the morning. We stayed up until midnight anyways. The four of us played some games like Ticket to Ride, and Hyper Dash. We ate lots of food like Brats, and cheese and crackers. We turned on the TV at 11:00 and saw the New York celebration for New Years. We then started a movie. Both my mom and I fell asleep during the movie and woke up 4 minutes after midnight, paused the movie and shouted "Happy New Year!" turned the movie back on, and fell asleep again. We had woken up early that morning, plus our bodies were on a different time zone.






New Years Day was when the party really began! Rob, Chalece and Brielle came to visit us. We ate Fondu, opened some presents, and played Ticket to Ride and Hyperdash. Brielle is such a cutie, and really enjoyed my dad's massage chair he got from my mom for Christmas. The way to get Brielle to smile for the camera is to tell her "Show me your teeth!" which is then what she does.

Hopefully 2009 will bring us all great joy!!

Christmas Vacation

This Christmas break was great! We were lucky to be able to visit Aubrey and her famiy, spend Christmas with them and celebrate Jesus's birth. It was also wonderful to be around little children at Christmastime again and feel the magic. We did happen to all get sick with the stomach flu for the first five days we were there, but had fun nevertheless.







The baby is beautiful, little Clara. She is such a doll!!
On Christmas morning, James (20) was the first one awake. James, Amelia, Emma and I all slept in the same room on Christmas Eve. It was about 6:00 and James says "Should we get up now?" which woke up Amelia and myself. Amelia answered "I think they wake up closer to 7:00" and we tried to go back to sleep. A few minutes later, I heard a tapping noise that sounded like foot steps. Both Amelia and I sat up, looked at eachother, and I said "What's that noise?" James answered us by replying "Oh sorry, I'm drumming. I got bored." So James was the restless one Christmas morning, Emma still asleep all the while. Emma then rolled around and Amelia said to her "Emma, what day is it?" Then Emma said "Twelve dash twenty-four dash oh eight" (Yes, she did say dash) Amelia then said "I think it's the twenty-fifth." Emma sat straight up all of a sudden and said "It's Christmas!" It was very cute.

Jake slept in his parents room because he wasn't feeling well. After we were all awake, Aubrey had to wake up Jacob. She lightly touched his arm and said his name, then Jake slowly opened one eye, looked around, then shouted "IT'S CHRISTMAS!!" and started running towards the door. Luckily, Aubrey caught his arm before he could run down the stairs.

The day after Christmas, we were lucky to have Krystal and her son, A.J. come and spend some time with us before we left the day before Christmas. It was so fun to see everyone again!

Family Comes to Visit

The past few days we have had company. Anna, Mike, Mikelle and Kaylee Ann, came to see us! They spent l day and l night. They visited Lee while in the hospital, and he was able to come back to our apartment on pass for the afternoon. It was nice to see them, such darling granddaughters!!!

Kaylee Ann loves her Grandpa Lee, she wasn't even worried by his face mask. She touched his hair (soon to fall out!) and warmed up as if she see's him every day. (It has been 8 months! Way to long!)

Mikelle, loves her Grandma! It was fun to tell her Little Debbie Stories. (stories about my childhood) Anna and Mike are wonderful parents, we feel very blessed that they were able to stop by on their way to our family reunion, which Lee and I are missing.