Friday, January 04, 2008

Merry Christmas, Happy New Year, etc. etc. etc.

just an update on our holidays. we had a wonderful christmas. gary and i were both off for a week and a half! it was so wonderful!!! i don't think we've spent that much time together ever!! and, i haven't seen lucas that much without a break since maternity leave! it was really nice and it's been kind of hard coming back to work. but, what can you do? BLOG!
we took lucas ice skating for the first time. lucas did pretty good. he's kind of top heavy (big head), so he doesn't balance well as more average size kids. hah! but, he had a blast. the ice skating rink was at the zoo, so when we were done we went around and saw all the lights. we had great timing too. when we left there it was extremely crowded and the freeway to get in was backed up for a couple miles!!
christmas was a lot of fun of course. it's so neat to compare lucas from previous years to the current. he has grown so much and speaks like a normal kid now. we spent the 1st half of the day with my family and then went to gary's dad's house. it's so convenient since he lives just down the road from my parents.
for new years eve we went my friend edwina's house. she must've had 10 kids there ranging from 3 months to 14 years old. it was great. the kids had 2 pinatas, all kinds of costumes to try on ... and, the adults were able to have a good time too. we didn't leave until 12:30 am!!! it was a great night.
the rest of the week was spent doing whatever we wanted really. running errands, finishing projects we never have time to do, watching movies, spending time with family. i couldn't have asked for a more peaceful fun week.




















I love the new mohawk do i've been giving lukie. he is afraid people will laugh at him though, which i thought was a weird apprehension at such a young age.












































Don't you hate those darn toy packages sometimes ... i caught everyone doing this at the same time and had to laugh. what a pain in the wazoo!























































































































































































3 comments:

Meghan said...

You guys look like you had such a fun christmas....and you look so happy! I am so happy for you all. Tell Lucas we love his mohawk and it looks great! Miss you lots.....I left you a comment!! :) haha

the mama said...

wow a mohawk...where did you get that idea? ;) he looks too cute val!! i love the pic of your mom with the crock pot too hahaha...sounds like you really had an awesome vacation...i must admit i'm quite green with envy right now! blaaaah...haha can't wait to see you guys tomorrow!

Mindy Newman said...

And so it goes, I'm probably the only person playing with tinker toys in the world these days, that's 60 years old. Hope Luke makes me something...tell him I'm coming over to see. HA! and I really will if he does something with them.