We made it back from Hawaii on the morning of December 29th just in time to meet Holli, John, and Rhys, who had arrived at our house the day before, after they had a hideously long drive across the dam. We hadn't seen them since last June, so it was great to see them again. Hillari, Keith, Sareny, Isaac, and Finley got here a little later in the day. We were so glad to see everyone, but we were all quite tired as well. Jeff, Lexi and I had just finished a very long red-eye flight from Hawaii; Holli and John had come from Georgia about the time we left for Hawaii and had been in Phoenix with John's family for over a week, and Hillari and Keith and the kids had just come from their more than a week long stay in Spokane with Keith's family, so everyone was a little wiped out. We had our second Christmas that night and opened our presents to and from each other, and for some strange reason I didn't take one picture of it! I'll blame it on being a zombie, I guess. Jake, Liz, Josh, and Charlie, came the next day, and the kids had all drawn names again this year, so they all opened those presents together. Some of the fun things we did while everyone was here were ride the Ranger, of course; feed the fish again, which is always fun for the kids; go to the park to play; play the game Mafia; and have a "lame" (according to Lexi) New Year's Eve party. In Lexi's defense, I guess it was kind of lame. Jake and Liz didn't even stay up until midnight! Here are some of our cute pictues:
Sareny and Lexi made these awesome puppets and did a puppet show for us.
It was pretty cute and funny.
We all want Rhys and Finney to be good friends, but for some reason they haven't hit it off. Rhys does like to hit Finney and pull her hair though. Maybe that's a sign that he really likes her, you know how boys are..................
Here's Isaac going down the slide at the park.
Joshie in the swing.
Cute little Charlie.
These two little cuties do get along sometimes!
The big kids playing pepper.
Love this picture of Sareny and Isaac.
I look a little scary here, but Charlie sure is cute.
I gave Rhys a bath in the sink, and couldn't get him to smile for anything. He's such a cutie even without a smile.
Holli and John were the last ones to leave, and we had a little s'more making night in the back yard.
We also met some of the relatives on Jeff's side of the family at Sizzler for dinner. Jeff's Mom and Frank, Mike and Laurie, Tiffany and Baden with their little boy Taden, and Tracy and Lynnette with Kelsie, Kollin, and Karston were all there. Here's John, Holli, Lexi, Tiff, and Baden.
Rhys and Taden had fun running around and annoying all the old people who seem to love Sizzler...............
A cute little picture I snapped of Rhys on their last day here. He is such a busy little boy, it was unusual to get a picture of him sitting still! We love our family so much and enjoy having them visit us. We all had a very Merry Christmas!!!
3 comments:
Cute pictures! It looks like fun. I wish we could have been there too. You're New Year's Eve party couldn't have been much more lame than ours though. I was actually feeding Truman at midnight and should have been asleep actually. The park looks like fun and so do the smore's. I can't believe you had to go to Sizzler again!
i wish i was done blogging about the holidays. cute pictures. im glad everyone enjoyed mine and sareny's puppet show. it was pretty good if i may say so. very cute pictures.
You took lots more pictures than I did. I only had some from the lake. You got some really cute ones of everyone! Yay for us being done with new years and christmas posts finally!
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