Tuesday, January 6, 2009
Happy New Year!!!
New Year's has come and gone and I am excited for the many new adventures that 2009 holds. We celebrated New Year's Eve with Grover's, Dad Grover planned lots of fun activities, we started with all the kids games so that we could put them to bed before it got to late. Christian and Mercedes loved playing Gator Golf, Bowling, and a fun interactive storytelling activity. They got to pick out a prize too, it was a lot of fun. We did a simple dinner, where everyone brought and appetizer and we had a fruit and veggie platter, it was nice and light and easy. For dessert Mom Grover made chocolate fondue with fruit and cream puffs, it was delicious. We played the name game, Rock Band, and other Wii games till the ball dropped and then we all got a New Year's Kiss. On New Year's Day we celebrated Joe's 28th Birthday, half of us went and played wally ball and the other half of us got to make play dough and build a fort with the kids, it was a lot of fun. We had a lovely steak dinner at the Birthday Boy's request and fruit pizza for dessert. I surprised Joe with a new 50" Samsung Plasma Television that he has been looking at for a while, thank to everyone that chipped in on it, it was a great surprised and Joe can not wait to get it mounted. Happy Birthday Joe I Love you!
Merry Christmas!!!
Well, it has taken me a week or so to get caught up on these pictures but here they finally are. Christmas Day was a blast, we had Christmas morning with the Grover's and the kids loved it. We let the kids open all their presents, then we ate breakfast, and the kids just played while the adults all opened theirs. It worked out really well and as worried as Joe was about all the kids/presents/fairness, it went just fine. The kids all got different things but it was what they had asked for so their where no hard feelings. Joe surprised me with a new area rug for our new house that I have had my eye on, and the kids and I surprised Joe with their little hand prints-framed, he loved it. Christmas was perfect this year, all about the kids. Christmas is so much more fun as a parent, I love playing Santa Clause. Well, after we wrapped things up at the Grover's, we headed down to my parents and had a little brunch (I made a Pecan Pull Apart, it was so yummy) My Mom had a little nativity scene for the kids to put together while she read about Christ's Birth, it was very sweet and simple the kids really enjoyed it. We opened presents for hours, as we usually do having such a big family, had a lovely dinner and headed home to get the kids to bed. It was a very full day and it was a lot of fun. Thanks to our family and friends, for the generosity and love you have shown to Joe and I and our children. We Love You! Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
Monday, January 5, 2009
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