Christmas Continued

After Uncle Rudy went home we headed over to Elsa and Elva's. There was lots of tasty food, plenty of family, and of course more presents.

(Watching the little angel.)

(A happy, sleeping baby.)

(What a really pretty dress.)

(The gangster ballerina.)

(A shy Emma.)

(Louie and Louie.)

Top: Manny, David, Louie

Bottom: Pee-wee, Louie

(What a happy family.)

(Awww, what a tired baby.)

Once everyone took a small nap, it was on to the next location: Uncle Rudy's house. There was more food and lots of new things to play with.

(Bella and Emma play dress up with Bella's new toys.)

(Isaac is enjoying a piece of pie.)

(All gathered in the kitchen, enjoying the food and the company.)

(Making themselves perfect.)

Matthew didn't make it to Grandma Elena's house for Christmas, so he spent the night on New Year's. He recieved the presents Santa left for him then.

(COOL! More tech decks.)

(Posing for the camera.)

Wow! What a crazy, fun, exhausting Christmas. Everyone had a great time and I can't wait to do it again next year!

Merry Christmas!

This year, we went to Christopher's great grandma's for Christmas Eve, as usual. There was good food and Christopher got to spend time with family he usually doesn't see. He got a few cool gifts and everyone had a really good time.

(The woof-woof Christopher couldn't pet, but said hi to.)

(Christopher's cousin, Aiden, who was born 1 month before him.)

After we returned from Christopher's Granny's, we made cookies and left them out for Santa. Then it was off to bed.

Then Christmas morning, Christopher woke up and got his Santa shirt on. We then waited for everyone else to wake up so we could open presents.

(Where is everyone?)

Once we got everyone to wake up....it was present time! Although Christopher wasn't really interested in opening the presents he was really excited about what he found under the paper. Once again, almost all of the presents under the tree belonged to Christopher.

(Wow! What a cool couch.)

(Look who it is.....Look! LOOK!!)

(Those are some cool pants.)

(A shirt with LOTS of cars.)

(Looks like Grandma got some new knives.)

(What is that, Mama?)

(A fish puzzle just for Christopher.)

(A cook book for Mama.)

(Oh yea! A new video.)

(You guys open that one....I'm tired.)

(What did Daddy get?)

(Patsy gets to open a gift, too.)

(Hey, who got the cool kitchen?)

(Look, Mama got some matching PJ's, and she could REALLY use them.)

(Check out the cool Clifford.)

(What an awesome stocking, Santa.)

(What a MESS!)

Soon after Christopher opened all of his gifts, Uncle Rudy showed up with his family. Bella was very excited to discover that Santa had left a stocking here for her. Chantal and Isaac were thrilled with the gifts they got. Everyone had a great time!

(Bella opens one of her gifts.)

(Bella got a Tinker Bell snow globe.)

(Check out that cool "B")

(A beautiful princess set.)

(Isaac carefully opens his gift.)

(Oh wow! That's sooooo cool.)

(Stephanie opens her gift.)

(What cool thing did Chantal get?)

(Yea! Jackpot!)

(The best gift you could give a teen.)

(A present the whole family can enjoy.)

(Yum....the gift of food.)

The River of Lights

So sorry I haven't been posting regularly. Life got a little busy with the holidays. So here is what we have been up too.

The aquarium and botanical gardens holds something called the River of Lights every year. They put thousands of light on display all over the gardens.

We decided to take Christopher to see them this year. By the time we got there Christopher had fallen asleep, since we had to be there at night. Once we got out of the car, I started to wake him up. Once he noticed all the lights he got really excited.

We wondered all around the park looking at the many different displays they had. Christopher really like the cars, (of course), and the ones were the lights would flash.

Afterwards, we went ate at Villiage Inn because they have a good pork chop that Christopher can have.

(The beautiful lit archway.)

(One of the cars Christopher really liked.)

(Christopher checking out the car he liked.)

(What a cool turtle.)

(Looking at a pretty flower.)

(An overview of the lights.)

(Checking out more lights.)

(What a cool bird.)

(The carolers we listened to.)

(Christopher listening to the songs.)

(Another cool car.)

(Looking at the car.)