Haley Christmas and Joe's 30th

We spent the second half of this week celebrating Christmas with the Haley side of the family. It was so great to spend time with everyone, relax, eat, drink, open presents, and just have a good ole time. The kids love seeing their cousins - they all love each other to pieces. Taryn and Izzy weren't able to make it at the last minute b/c Izzy had rsv. So we missed them, but everyone else was together. We were SO glad to have Matt and Gabe around - they got loved on a lot! One of these times we'll be at 100 % :) On Friday night, Mel threw a surprise party for Joe's 30th b-day at the Red Room in Broadripple. It was a hit - he was totally surprised and we all had a great time (some more than others..ha ha).

Had to post the picture of Addy, Mike and Lily. I've entitled it "I'm so happy I can't stop crying". Cracks me up!

Merry Christmas Ho Ho Ho!

Hope everyone had a very Merry Christmas this year. We'll continue to celebrate this week, but for now, here's the run down....

I was so busy over the last few weeks that I think I made myself sick :( From Thurs night until Christmas early afternoon, I was sick as a dog with the flu). That was no fun and caused us to miss our Christmas Eve trip to the Haute. But, aside from that, we had a great Christmas! In a way it was nice for the girls to just be home, stay in their jammies, watch Christmas movies, and play without needing to go anywhere. Then yesterday, on Christmas Day, Santa came!!!!! It was great. I just sat on the couch and watched the girls open their presents. They declared it to be the "Best Christmas Ever!" They both got new chairs, Addy got an "American Girl" doll (of the target variety!) and Lily got all sorts of zoobles and a few other things that they went crazy for. Miri enjoyed her first Christmas very much. She got a few toys, all of which were fine to chew on...so she was happy :)

Last night we went over to Betty and Peter's for the Wong family Christmas. It was such a nice time. We were only missing Ari. Tomorrow we're off to Terre Haute for family time galore and to continue the Christmas celebrations.

Merry Christmas Everyone!

Holiday Season - Oh my oh my!!!

Well the holidays are in full swing around here. Barclay and I have been super busy with Christmas parties galore. I think we've had 4 or 5 work related ones just so far....2 more to come this week.

Thanksgiving weekend was great - we filled it with family time in the Haute and in Indy. Can't wait for more of the same during the week of Christmas.

Then there have been the Thanksgiving and Christmas programs and class parties (some of which are still to come). Lily is wearing a black and white dress and is in the front row in her picture (you can only see her from the side). Addy's Christmas program is this week, but her Thanksgiving program happened a couple of weeks ago. She is in the front wearing a green shirt and pink pants.

Today the girls and I went to the Conner Prairie gingerbread village, which we do every year. Then we made a Gingerbread house of our own. Addy said ours was the very best - I kind of agree (though that roller coaster one in the picture was pretty dang awesome :) Ours is the bottom picture, in case you couldn't tell.

And poor Miri - how have I neglected to take pictures of her lately? She's too cute to neglect photographing. I've stuck in a few random ones of her - she's been doing all of this stuff with us and being soooo good and patient :) She did get to visit with Santa and get her picture with him. This year NONE of the girls cried. Only the second time Lily and Addy didn't scream and run away from him, and (of course) the first time I was able to get a picture of all three of them with Santa. Someone else took the pic, so it's framed at home but I can't put it up here.

We've also had our fair share of sick kids in the last month or so, which is totally my fault b/c I was recently commenting about how long it had been since anyone had been sick.

Wow! That was a lot of pictures! We've had a lot of fun and our ready for the next few weeks!