Saturday, February 06, 2010

Quick Christmas Recap

After opening Santa gifts at our house, we joined the rest of the family over at Mom & Dad’s house for more festivities.

Kaelin had a great time playing with the Nativity set.  I’m not sure which part Snow White was playing, but she was apparently very important in the scene.

Koren rediscovered the baby walker at my parents’ house and derived a lot of satisfaction from making drive-by raids of Dr. Pepper out of the wine cellar.

Kaelin received an electric car from my parents, which she and Koren both had a blast zooming around the neighborhood in.  She gets to steer and Koren gets to man the radio.  Does anybody else see this scene replaying itself when Kaelin turns 16?

As usual, Christmas was exciting and exhausting.  It’s funny how you can spend a month and a half looking forward to a single day, and when it’s over you’re perfectly content to let it go and get back to routine.  At least, that’s the way it works around here.  See you next year, Santa!

Monday, January 18, 2010

Things You Might Not Know About Texas Unless You Live Here

1.  Church lets out early for football.

2.  If you don’t own a car, you can’t go anywhere.

3.  You have to take pictures EVERY. TIME. it snows.  No exceptions.

Christmas Eve


Kaelin got her much-wished-for "White Christmas"

Friday, December 25, 2009

Christmas Blessings

Update: Koren was home from the ER in record time last night (the upside to visiting the ER on Christmas Eve - no wait time), and thankfully the injury looked a lot worse than it actually was.  The tooth is whole and still in place and we’re just supposed to watch him for sensitivity and take him to a dentist sometime next week.

In about an hour or so, our kids will start waking up and the Christmas rituals will begin.  Santa, stockings, presents, breakfast, visiting family, more presents, more food, etc.

I know this is the part where I’m supposed to wax sentimental over the real meaning of Christmas and the Christmas Spirit, and while I have plenty I could say on that topic, a) you’ve heard it a thousand times already, and b) it’s 5:30 in the morning, so I’m more inclined to use the next hour trying to get a little more sleep before the chaos and festivities commence.

But I will say this:

I hope that you and yours have a beautiful, wonderful holiday and that you truly feel as blessed as we do.  We are surrounded by an incredible group of friends and family, and are always grateful for your love, friendship and faithfulness.

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

Thursday, December 24, 2009

Merry Merry, Quite Contrary

My plan was to dress the kids up in their Santa outfits and film them singing “Jingle Bells” (Koren does backup, it’s great) and post it here to wish you all a Merry Christmas.

But Koren’s in the emergency room after busting his mouth on our staircase.

So Plan B....

Merry Christmas to you all, and we hope you have a relaxing and fun-filled weekend.  If you get the chance, please send up a prayer for our little guy. He’s had a rough day.