CHRISTMAS FESTIVITIES 2007

Christmas Festivities..in reverse order! When all was said and done, the rush of everything at Christmas time, Christmas performances, parties, shopping, traveleing, all of it, it ended up being a great holiday season! We spent Christmas Eve at Joe's sisters with Joe's parents, Grammy Sue, and lots of Joe's family. It was a great evening, very relaxed, and lots of great food, as usual at Caterina & Dave's! Christmas Day we spent at our house and my parent's, my brother Lance (aka Uncle Pooh) Michele, Kayla & Nyjell all came down. It was fun waking up together Christmas morning and seeing what Santa had left for all the kiddos!!!

Jake with his new "wave" skateboard from Santa....
Joshy and his "Dog that Skates " from Santa.... Santa brought Justin the "iCoaster"
And, HUGE thanks to Momo & Papa for Guitar Hero for Wii!!!
The boys & Grammy Sue on Christmas Eve at Cat & Dave's.....

Joe and his Mom, Shirley, enjoying a little Bagna Caulda... Can anyone guess what it is??? Pop & Shirley on Christmas Eve...
Caterina & Dave...truly the hosts with the mosts!!!
Our gang Christmas Eve....
Jake's 2nd grade Christmas performance...Jake is the "tall" one in the black shirt...that he wouldn't button or tuck in!!!
Jake singing....
All Lexi wanted was a picture with Jake...can he ever be normal????
Decorating the tree....
Okay, long story short, towards the end of decorating the tree and every ornament Joshy opened said either Mom, Dad, Justin/Mom, Dad, Justin, Jake/Justin, Jake....his feelings were a little hurt because he only has a couple of ormaments with his name. Apparently that's what happens when you are the third child?!?!?! LOL!! He was really heart broken about it, so next year I think I need to get about 30 ormaments with his name alone!!!!
And the stocking were hung by the piano with care....since we actually have a functioning fireplace we couldn't hang the stockings on the mantel since we are enjoying fires in the evening!!!

MERRY CHRISTMAS ALL!

MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL OUR FAMILY AND FRIENDS!!
We hope everyone had a great day! We have had a great couple of days and are now all in our jammies playing Guitar Hero on Wii! I hope everyone had a great day and celebrated the day doing exactly what you wanted to be doing and with who you wanted to be celebrating with! Stay tuned for pictures to come of our Christmas Eve with Joe's family at Caterina's and Christmas Day with my family at our house...including Rob, Steph, Wolfie & Lexi....

My gift to you my loyal blogger fans will be TONS of updating of our goings on this past month!! I have 3 weeks off of work and I will be catching up in the next couple of days!!

MY HAPPY LITTLE ELVES!

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THANKS AUNT RHONDA & UNLCE KIRK...

And, thank you Christian, Britty and Gunnar!! The kids had fun picking out fun stuff at the DISCOVERY STORE!!! Such a cool store!

CHRISTMAS 2006

CHRISTMAS EVE AT DAVE & CATERINA'S
We had a great Christmas Eve-ning at Dave & Cat's with their family traditinal Italian Christmas Eve Seafood Feast! And, of course, it was FABULOUS with lots of great food! We always have a great time hanging out with Joe's sister and her family! I did not seem to get many pictures the whole Christmas weekend, but I will share with you what I did manage to take! Also at Cat's was Grammy Sue, Joe's Uncle Larry & Aunt Judi, Steve & Craig, Cousin Rick & Melissa, Melissa's Mom and brother and several friends and neighbors! It was a great Eve-ning even though we had to scoot out early to get home and tuck the kids in so SANTA could come!!

The boys with their Cousins Matt & Mike.... The boys and Grammy Sue....
The boys and Joe's cousin Rick and his wife Melissa. They are so great with the kids and always give them to coolest toys!....

CHRISTMAS MORNING AT HOME....
We always like to wake up at home on Christmas morning! The kids promised they would let us sleep until 5:30 and not wake us up before that! Well, I woke up just before 5:00 and could hear them talking so we got up! I remember being a kid and not being able to sleep Christmas Eve in anticipation of what Santa brought! I love watching my kids open their goodies and how excited they get over the littlest things!

Justin with his K'Nex Vertical Vengance Roller Coaster from Santa...

Jake and his Doodle Monster....

Joshy was way too fast for me to get a picture of him checking out his new "kid" sized Golf Clubs from Santa! Nothing is better than a Day of golfing with Dad! (Especially for Mom!!)...CHRISTMAS DAY AT MICHELE & LANCE'S....

After having a quiet morning at home we loaded up and headed up North to my brother Lance's house. Nothing says Christmas like "kids, here are all your wonderful gifts now you can't play with them for 3 days 'til we get home" haha! We had another FABULOUS meal Christmas Day...Prime Rib, and Salad & Potato Bar with all the fixins'! Of course, we all ate way too much but it was great! It was great meeting Michele's family-her Mom & Step-Dad and her Sisters family. Of course Momo & Papa were there as well!

Michele & Lance with Michele's kids Antonio, Vanessa & Kayla...
The boys Christmas Day. They were exhausted and thrashed by the end of the day!... Michele, Lance, Vanessa and her NEW CAR she got the day before for her Sweet 16 Birthday! Lucky!!...

DAY AFTER CHRISTMAS AT POP & SHIRLEY'S...

The day after Christmas we headed even further up North to Joe's parents house for the night. Another FABULOUS meal! We missed seeing Andy by a couple of hours but got to hang out with his oldest son Caleb! We had a good day just hanging out while the kids ran wild! Three straight inside days or in the car caught up with them at Grandma & Papa's!

The boys, including Caleb showing Grandma how weird they can be...
Pop and his "Questa Cuesta" sign telling us the story behind the sign... We ended up taking the kids Bowling while Pop was getting dinner ready. It was storming so bad and they had a serious case of cabin fever so we had to get out!!...
Josh & Caleb-they had such a great time playing and go along so well! It's too bad they live SO FAR away!...
So, as you read, we had a great Christmas week with lots of traveleing but it was worth it getting to squeeze in a little time with lots of the family. We did come home pretty thrashed and now Joe, Jake & I are fighting some sort of *bug*. Hope everyone else had a great Christmas as well! For even more pics click on my flickr box on the right --->>>

CHRISTMAS GREETINGS FROM THE BOYS!

We hope that all of our Family and Friends near and far have a Wonderful Holiday Season filled with family, good friends and much holiday cheer! We will be thinking about each of you that we are not able to be with this holiday season! Merry Christmas and here's a little message from the boys... (P.S. THANK YOU for all the Christmas Cards you have sent and all the great Christmas Picture Cards! We love them all!!!!!!!!)