A Few More Shots From Christmas

Here are some pictures, mostly of the kids opening their presents.

This is from Santa

....also from Santa

Uncle Jon had her Barbie taped up pretty good. 

One of Lara's gifts from Henry

We had a houseful this year. It was our first time having Christmas, and the first gathering at the new house. Henry's mom and brother came, my parents and brother, and Fumi and Chizuka also came. We enjoyed a prime rib dinner and had fun just spending time together. The kids got a few fun games, and we played all of them I think. They loved Twister and Pop the Pig, and the adults had fun with Jenga and Farkle. The weather was great so the boys went four wheeling, and Henry and my brother used the Deuce to pull a tree down, while Larry helped the girls put their roller coaster track together. We had a great couple of days! So much fun, that THIS happened.....

 Larry was out like a light so we decorated him a little bit.

Here are a few from Christmas Eve too. I almost forgot that they opened one big bag from Grr-ya-ya and Papa the first night they were here.

Legos with Papa

Pick-up Sticks with Grr-ya-ya!

We finished the night by making cut-out cookies. We left one for Santa, and what do you know, he ate it while he was here dropping off presents for the kids! It was a great couple of days!

~My Ladies~

Merry Christmas!

Henry got me a new camera for Christmas. I've been playing with it a little bit. It is so ugly outside though. We need some more snow to make it more fun.

We had a little fun with Larry after he fell asleep in the chair. 

He had no idea until he woke up about 20 minutes later. 

Here is one of our super-cool gifts this year. My uncle made this for our caterpillars that we plan to keep next year so we can have monarchs again!

I need to find my cord for my old camera, which has all of the fun pictures of the kids opening their gifts on it. I will be back after I find it. Hope everyone had a very Merry Christmas!

I can't believe it's almost Christmas!

We finally moved into the new place a few weeks ago. It is taking a while to get everything organized. There are so many rooms to put everything in! Once we're completely done I'll go through pictures and post some. In the meantime, here are some pictures of the girls in their outfits from Henry's mom, which they plan on wearing for Christmas. Some of the branches of our tree turned a little brown while it was packed away, but I put most of them on the back side, and I think it actually looks okay. Dang white trees.

Lara made these at school.

Lara is sitting here at the kitchen table working on her list for Santa. I see her first item is an IPad. I hope she isn't disappointed if she doesn't get one, because it's not very likely. I asked her if she knows how much they cost, and she reminded me that Santa doesn't have to pay for anything. I may be in trouble this year. I hope everyone has a very Merry Christmas!