Ok this is one of those posts that is probably of little interest to anyone but us and the grandparents. But I want to preserve evidence of the cuteness, so here it is. The boys are both very into The Wiggles and have mastered several of their songs. Please excuse my singing and the darkness and enjoy a little number we call “Rock-a-bye Your Bear”.
Oh, and Ethan will do this over and over again, and watch the video of himself doing it over and over :-)
This past weekend I went to the Children’s Ministries Christmas party at the Humphrey residence. Oh my goodness, not only was the food and company fantastic, but I laughed so hard during the gift exchange that my face was hurting. It was a white elephant exchange and the requirements were that the gift be:
You can imagine these requirements would bring about some pretty interesting items. I am particularly fond of the clock I took home that sings the 12 days of Christmas. Of course people were fighting over that lovely sweater that Joe ended up with (far right). And I’m sad that you can’t see the 3 wise men mobile that Leslie got to take home. All in all it was a fabulous night spent with fabulous people.
And yes, these are the people in charge of your children on Sunday morning, be very afraid ;-)
When Kevin and I got married and celebrated our first Christmas together we had so much fun buying all the decorations and what not but I quickly learned that Kevin had some pretty specific requirements when it came to picking out the tree. Requirements is probably too strong of a word, but he did have certain ideals in mind. They are:
Well, in our 8 years of marriage, these ideals have never ALL been met in the same year. Most of the time we could only afford Home Depot, or we had to get a little tree to put on a table because there was a baby, or a fake tree, or we had to go during the day (gasp!) etc. Last year I bought a really small fake tree, at Target, during the day, by myself!! UGHHHH!!
SO, this year it just worked out that Kevin could have everything he ever wanted in a tree and tree shopping experience. The funny thing is that even though we have high ceilings, we have the tiniest living room ever, so it’s taking up the whole thing, but thats ok, it’s beautiful.
And it’s ten feet tall, BTW. Kev is standing on the wall in that picture because he had to take about 6 inches off the top so it wasn’t hitting the ceiling.
Our Disneyland passes expire at the end of the month so we went one last time this week. We have had passes for 3 years now but we decided this year that it just wasn’t a good time for us to have them. This last year we only went 4 times because of Kevin’s work schedule and the difficulty of taking Ethan with his uneven temperment. So, for now we think we should wait at least a year, that way Ethan will be almost 3 and able to do a lot more things. We didn’t do very good with our camera on our last day but here are a few pictures:
