til New Year's

I have to show what Faith gave Tony and I for Christmas. She loves to draw and made these gifts as well as the gift boxes! On the left is mine: a doggie & kitty tree ornament; in the middle was for both Tony & I: a Christmas tree picture in a frame with a stand on the back; and Tony's on the right: a Pittsburgh Steeler Christmas stocking tree ornament. We loved them!

This is what she made at school: a matted picture with her handprint on it. On the left is the gift wrapping which she got at school, but colored, cut and assembled at home (I guess they didn't have enough time for it) by herself so it would be a surprise. It sure was fancy!!




I also had to post the cute card she gave us.
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She wrote the message herself. It reads (with just a tiny bit of spelling correction), "Roses are red, violets are blue, you did lots of things good. Merry Christmas Mom and Dad!" Don't you love it :D

The day after Christmas, my mom & dad came over to see what the kids had gotten from Santa, us & Tony's family. Grandma loved the choo-choo table.



My dad took this pic of Faith hiding out in the "dinosaur habitat" they'd given Christian.




He also took this cute one of Buddy. I love when he does this little grin that you can see his adorable dimples!

Earlier that morning, Faith found that Santa had brought another gift! A note that said he'd found it in the bottom of his bag and had missed brining it to us the night before. It was a Wii!! (I think maybe Santa just knew it would be too hard to leave it to visit family, so getting it the next day would be better.)

We all played a bunch, but Faith and Tony litteraly played all day!



Christian, having jealously confiscated a pink, fuzzy gift of Faith's, conks out after playing with all of his new stuff and repeated attempts to master the Wii remote.

On Monday the 29th, we headed over to Lucky Buffet for some Chinese. The kids ate some actual food, but really had a blast with jello and straws.
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Anyone else remember doing this at school lunch in elementary?

We had a New Year's Eve party at our house when Tony's dad got sick and they postponed theirs. My mom & dad came for a few hours, Tammy was there, and Tina & Zach came over a bit later on. I made clam chowder and we had our chocolate fountain going.
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We had a fun time, but Christian didn't make it to midnight!




Faith and Zach spent most of the evening on the Wii, while the adults played Catchphrase. Welcome to 2009!!





New Year's day we just hung out and relaxed. I thought it was about time for another bubble beard pic!
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Woo hoo--I'm less than two months behind now!