Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

I know, we're a little behind...this week has been quite busy as we are getting back into the swing of things. We were out every night last week, so thankfully today I could finally update our blog with our Christmas pictures.

(Side note: This post was started a week ago, and is finally getting posted today :)

Here are the rest of our pictures from Christmas.
After the cruise we headed to Vernon. It was funny going from one extreme weather condition to another in less then 24 hours. The night we got there, our church was putting on "Bethelehem Star" a real life nativity.

Waiting in the cold to see "Bethlehem"

Liam saw his Uncle Gerry as a shepard and pointed at him thinking he was Grandpa, with a beard :)

Melissa, Kyla, and Julia selling necklaces.

Inside the church. It was turned into a Winter Wonderland and looked so great. They had a children's choir, and Auntie Terri was there handing out hot chocolate and cookies.

Getting in a quick visit with my good friend Megan

The rest of the week was getting all set up for Christmas. Here is Jason and Jackson helping decorate the Christmas Tree.

Christmas Eve: All ready for the candlelight service

Shelley & Jackson

The boys making silly faces :)

Christmas Morning:

My mom made all of us pajama bottoms. Liam and Josh in their matching pajama pants

Darcie's were a little too big :)

Opening presents...

Uncle Jason reading the boys a book they got for Christmas.


Starting a new tradition: Feeding the ducks at Polson Park on Christmas day.

Four Generations:

Our Holiday

We are back from our wonderful family holiday, with lots of pictures and memories to share. The first week was spent on our cruise and the second was spent relaxing and celebrating Christmas in Vernon.

There are so many pictures from these 2 weeks, so this first post will be about our cruise.

Liam watching the planes in Toronto

Heading to the cruise with our enourmous amount of luggage

Leaving Miami

Dominican Republic, our first stop

Liam was scared of the ocean at first so he just played in the sand.

Our Next stop: St. Thomas...our favourite!

Liam eventually loved the ocean and we had to chase him around so he wouldn't just run right into the waves :)

Tortola: The British Virgin Islands

All dressed up for dinner


The Mexican restaurant, so yummy!

The main lounge. Can you see the HUGE screen TV?

The slide on the cruise: Looks like I'm having a little more fun then Liam :)


Our final day. Waiting to leave the ship :(

Here is a funny video of Liam that I've been meaning to post for a while. It was back in September while my mom was up for a visit. We were eating supper and Liam started throwing his vegetables at Emmett and thought it was so funny. Sorry, it's a little long.

It's kinda dark, but you might notice he has a black eye. It was when he was just getting used to walking, and fell right into the corner of the coffee table at daycare. Not too fun.

What, it's already December?!?!

How is it already December tomorrow? I'm very excited about the fact that it's almost Christmas, and we leave in 2 weeks for our Weglo family cruise, but where did November go? Oh yeah, and for those who didn't know...we are going on a Caribbean cruise!! Whoop Whoop!

So in 2 weeks we'll be soaking up the sun here:

And hopefully doing some of this :)

Oh, I can't wait!

I apologize again for the lack of blogging, things have been pretty busy around here. You think that would give me more stuff to blog about, but no.

So here are some pictures of Liam to keep the family happy cause that's all I got for now :)

He's getting so big...and already needs another hair cut :)

So happy and content. And then 2 seconds later...

haha...don't worry, it didn't last long. It probably didn't help that I was taking pictures either :)

While eating supper tonight, Liam showed us what he's learned

Must have been something he picked up from daycare ;)

What a goof :)

Halloween

Wow, I hadn't realized it had been over a month since our last post. Well here is a fun little post to hopefully make up for the lack of blogging.

Our Halloween day this year was a pretty full day. We had 2 different functions to attend and one party to host. We dressed Liam up as Elmo and he was super cute!

I loved having Liam still young so I could eat all his candy :)

Our first event for the day was at Liam's daycare. Tina had decorated her whole house for halloween and had a fun little party for all the kids. She had mini pumpkin coloring, cookie making, apple bobbing, costume wearing, haunted house fun! Liam was still pretty young to enjoy most of the games, but he still had lots of fun watching and laughing at all the older kids.

Liam making his halloween cookies with Tina

After that, we headed to our church for their candy carnival. There were lots of kids, and lots of little games to play. Liam had a little pumpkin candy bag (thanks auntie Shelley) to fill with candy. When he realized he had candy in it, he started to take it out and hand it out to everyone. It was pretty funny.

"Hey Guys, who wants Smarties??"

Then we headed home to get ready for our own party with our College and Career group. We had a Star Wars themed night, where everyone had to dress up as a star wars character and then we watched the 3 older movies. We soon realized that we might not be such "young" adults anymore. By 10:00 most of our group were either falling asleep or ready to leave. Our youth pastor Morgan and his wife Joelle were the only ones that made it through all 3 movies which ended up 2 AM. Josh and I were there too, but I think we both fell asleep for most of the 3rd movie :) Thank goodness for the time change :)



Joelle (Qui-Gon Jin), Alicia (C3P0), Me (Princess Leia), and Tracy was just dressed for Halloween.

Qui-Gon Jin (Joelle) and Darth Vader (Morgan) battling it out. The force was strong with these two :)