Christmas 2008

Ya it's February, deal with it. If you haven't noticed I've been extremely busy what with all my laundering and coloring book crayoning and shaving legs and stuff. Some may call me a woman of leasure, but that would be bordering on on just plain rude and untrue. I'd say I'm a woman of one hour leasuring. Everyday I get about one hour (usually a little more), to be kidless and therefore scream and crumb free, so I've been taking it easy. Catching up on my ladies, Lorelei and Rory, has seemed much more important than blogging about Christmas. I forget, does Lorelei end up with Christopher or Luke, or does she end up an old spinster? I'll have to keep watching. (p.s. Gilmore Girls is on ABC Family HD every weekday at 3pm. Some ask why I nap my kids so late in the day. That would be the reason :) But just to make myself clear, I'm usually folding laundry or emptying the dishwasher while I'm leasuring. Leasuring is a word, right?

So Christmas was a dandy one. Kids really do make it fun don't they.

This is T making reindeer food at his school Christmas party. He dropped the glass container shortly upon arriving at home and was positive Santa would never find us in AZ if the reindeer didn't have glittery ground oatmeal to draw their attention to Grandma's lawn. They found him anyway.

Super stoked about singing us his Christmas carols.

We went to AZ for a week and T got to play with Connor and Mitchell. He loves Connor and could squash his older cousin with one bum cheek. All T's friends are little runts. Cute runts.

The annual acting out of the nativity. My aunt always has the kids write their own version of the Nativity Story and we act it out accordingly for each rendition. It is so funny. Tyler got to play every part from Joseph to a wiseman.

On Chrismtas Eve we always open PJs. Who know Gav would think it was so awesome?

Chrismas came and Kung Fu Panda entered our lives. Little did we know it would become our lives.

Gav could really have cared less about presents. He was really just into the candy in his stocking. Hey, a kid doesn't get to be in the 13th percentile for height by lovin himself some veggies.

T was kinda bummed the big present wasn't his. But Dave was glad he finally got a miter saw. Thank you parents.
It rained a bit while there, so my dad made some paper boats and the boys have fun playing in the gutter water. We always did that growing up. It was fun to see T and G do it too.
Dave turned the whopping 30 while in AZ. We saw Valkyre (which I LOVED), when to dinner with all the adults and had a good day.

Thought I'd just plop a pic of my parents in here. They are so generous with us and we really love them.
And the cherry on top of the vacation, (or perhaps I should say the pink lemonade and ham sandwich on top of the vacation) was Gav's upheaval on the way home. Dave no longer thinks driving 85mph around tons of turns and mountains is a wise idea. Weird how it takes puke to make a man change his ways.
Gav thought it was funny. Haha.

So once again we close the door on excess and boxes of chocolate and long for it to come again as quickly as it left.

Except we hope that maybe next year we stick to a budget and that Santa won't buy mommy a pair of see-through pj's. See-through pjs are a gift for daddy, not mommy.