Christmas morning

Stockings!
chocolate letter from Holland.
a duck!
Curter's chocolate letter

for the kids' final gifts, they had to follow ribbon mazed around the dining room.

Christmas Eve

Mom had Karen read the Christmas Story from a Bible Storybook.


Paul's shirt says "US Border Patrol".
With his Christmas jammies. I dont' think they fit you!

My Mom with her parents, Cecil and Delight.

our present to us

We finally spent our kicker check and the money from our grandparents (THANK YOU!) and bought ourselves a 42" LCD HDTV. We are liking it a lot! Here Curtis is showing off his boxing skills on the Wii (a Christmas/Birthday/Anniversary present from Paul's parents).

Christmas Party with friends

Friends from church hosted a Young Adult Christmas party. Curtis was fascinated by their tree and their train that traveled around it. This is a torture game. You begin rolling a die, and if you get a 6, you have to put on a hat and gloves, then begin opening this stiffly reinforced present. Everyone keeps rolling and if you get a six, you steal the hat and gloves and start unwrapping. Very aggressive game!

more thanksgiving

Curtis watching Great Grandma Lucile opening her "Happy Birthday Dad" gift.

There are 6 people in our family that have November birthdays.
"Happy Birthday to youuuuuu"

Wrangling kids for a picture.
Uncle Jon and Curtis

Thanksgiving

Emily doing her George Bush impersonation. Paul on the left, Grandpa Chauncy on the right.
Paul's brother Jon is Emily's Daddy.

We did not sleep well all week, so Paul often napped with Curtis.
Curtis in the kitchen again! Helping Auntie Chris, Emily's Mommy, make cranberry salad.
Thanksgiving day, Paul with Karen. She is 9 now!

Christmas pictures

We had our family Christmas pictures taken today.

Curtis and Mama can!

Auntie and Uncle again!

We found out this week that Paul's Brother and Wife are having another baby girl next Spring. That means we'll have 5 nieces! Congrats Jon & Chris!

The most beautiful...

.... school picture ever... and it just happens to be my daughter!

My Little Chef

Curtis decided he wanted eggs. So I put 2 in a pot to hard boil. No, he wanted to hammer (crack) them. So he did and we put them in the pan to fry. No, "tir" (stir), so he stirred them. Then I realized I had the wrong burner on. But we got it together and he is scarfin them down.

and yes, there's a brownie on his plate.

New Clothes

some sweet friend sent Karen some new Gymboree clothes