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Monday, December 31, 2012

christmas day

 what santa brought the boys

(santa also brought the stomach bug to jack...he woke up at 5:30 with diarrhea...in his underwear. poor buddy! so that is why my boys aren't wearing matching pj's)

jack


charlie





charlie eating a kit kat

we gave jack handy, a new bedtime cd, and a leap pad

we gave charlie a little people bus, airplane, and tractor (they were jack's old toys...don't judge us)

opening grandpa's present

thanks grandpa!

Gak




 we skyped with darryl, tia, and molly and opened the presents to eachother. it was a lot of fun to skype with them and made texas seem a little closer to us!


i guess charlie was ready to go outside wearing daddy's shoes




johnny wanted to make a standing rib roast for christmas day...i'm glad he did because it was tasty!

grandma make a cake for jesus' birthday...it was the famous jello cake

this is what johnny and i gave to eachother for christmas...it is a watercolor painting of charlie from the same lady that painted jack's.

christmas eve

 we went to our church for the children's christmas eve service. jack chose to dress up as a donkey


 grandma got to join us

 then we went to grandma's house for the traditional chinese dinner. 
the boys got to open a few presents

 we came home to do some traditions like put out cookies for santa.

 and read the night before christmas book. (jack got the book and the reindeer who he named "antlers" from dot)

 we feel very loved :)



christmas in columbus

 the day before we drove to columbus jack had pajama day at school so i decided to take a few pictures of the boys in front of our tree.


 jack got some magnetic blocks from mimi and papa...he was very proud of his first creation 


 mimi and papa have a little tree just for the grandkids. jack was really excited about decorating it but then i had to restring the lights and that made him forget about how excited he was about decorating...oh well...maybe next year!

 charlie tried to help

 jack standing in the middle of all of his presents

 he got a lot of great things!!

 he loves this hat...it has lights under the bill of the hat

 charlie got great things too!

 but i think i got the best!!

 jack and frank made a train together...jack made the train and frank made the track and added the smoke 

 of course the boys are eating gummies at mimi and papa's house...i think my dad buys 3 boxes when we go there. they were watching star wars together :)

 i made a picture for my mom and dad to hang up at christmas time every year

frank and charlie :)

we had a lot of fun in columbus, but we were all pretty sick. my boys got walking pneumonia a week or so before we left so charlie was doing breathing treatments and teething which makes a cranky baby and tired parents!!! my parents caught walking pneumonia from the boys when they came here for my surgery so they were still sick. mamie got the stomach bug a few days before they came and ty caught it the day we all came. so he was on the couch the whole day and night and woke up feeling better. we were all fine sunday and monday, but frank woke up tuesday at his house with the stomach bug! jack woke up christmas morning at 5:30 with diarrhea...poor buddy! my dad got it a few days after that! a very sick christmas!

Thursday, December 20, 2012

sunday school christmas party

 we had our sunday school christmas party on saturday night. we were supposed to dress up as a christmas character. it was a lot of fun seeing all the different costumes!

johnny and i went as cousin eddie and catherine from christmas vacation.
cousin eddie was a popular costume :) 

johnny actually ended up winning the costume contest! i think it was the chest hair..ha!

carseat

we turned charlie's carseat around on december 14th. his legs were super crunched and johnny was tired of not being able to hand him stuff easily. he is one happy camper :)

bowling fundraiser

 last saturday we went bowling to raise money for our friends who are adopting a baby. there was a great turn out! 


 jack and eli had a great time bowling together!