December 2010 in Review


Hello Santa….I’ve been expecting you…

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December, believe it or not started off with the award ceremony for Olivia’s Soccer season.   She had a incredible year and really tore up the field.

The trophy she received was rather scandalous.  Look at it quick…look away…look again.  Yah, you know what i’m talkin bout.

 

 

James was being supper supportive by ignoring her achievement and scoring big on Pokemon Platinum.

Next we had James and Olivia’s winter concerts

 

 

 

(Look Dad, I remembered to bring my Trumpet.  James, you play the trombone!)

 

Liv sang front and center wearing a little outfit we like to call “I don’t want to wear this, yer gonna wear it…sob…I don’t wanna…well, pick out yer own outfit….sob….you pick it out”

Christmas is the time for heavy firepower.  You can see liv…shirtless with a camo vest in the background.  She would be playing Jesse Ventura’s part in Predator.

 

Liv’s impersonation of a Reindeer at Chili’s

 

Dean just being Dean at Chili’s


 

That’s one puuurty cookie

No Christmas season would be complete without our annual cookie mess-fest.

 

Here’s James helping out Nate..Awww

 

Adam lasted a little longer this year, here he is showing off his creation, while below, you can almost smell the stomach ache that awaits

 

Patiently waiting for Presents

 

James bequeathing the gift of the blade in true warrior fashion.

Everything was fine until that deer with the sword showed up

SeÑor NÁ-NÁ

Yet another shot of James at his finest

Winter addiction

It ain’t Christmas time until Alfie shows up.  Here he is cozying up to the bananas…he’s weird like that.

You can see the Advent box to the right.  Every year this box gets filled with crazier and crazier stuff.  Next year they’re probably expecting a different color iPad for each day.

I know you!

 

 

The following is a montage of Christmas eve minus James’s Med.  I believe here he is saying “Yah, Beanie Babies!!”

Heres James is exclaiming “Yah…cookies for Santa”

Here James interjected with a  “Yah, apples and carrots for Rudolph!!”

Aww, the nights almost over…but James manages a “Hey, Jazz hands!!!’

Christmas….Yayyy


Children of the Corn

Kris and I decided to take a trip to PA to see some friends and get lost in a giant field of corn.  This corn maze is right in the middle of meat and potato lovin’ Pennsylvania Dutch country and is called “The Cherry Crest Adventure Farm”.

Cherry Crest Children of the CornI was waiting for Maliki to greet us at the ticket booth, but it was neither him, nor a person wielding a sickle so I was relieved.

It took us an hour and a half to “almost” find our way out of the maze and we felt like little mice in a laboratory with our reward being some Dutch Country Fudge waiting for us in the courtyard.

Dutch Fudge

(Exhibit A: Yummy Dutch Fudge)

(Exhibit B: Kris Eating Yummy Dutch Fudge)

(Exhibit C: Dean licking the bag where the Yummy Dutch Fudge had been)

lost in Maze

Apparently, this is a map of all the people who who have been swallowed up by the corn maze.  My guess is they have been made into Shoofly Pie.

What we didn’t anticipate was the feverish spell the corn maze had put on Mellisa and Jay. They were clearly the mice with a mission, hell bent on finding all the maze puzzle pieces and claiming the 2009 Maize Masters title (fictional title that they so rightly deserve)

“Can someone just point me in the general vicinity of fudge?”

“can we get some blue puzzle pieces so it looks like we tried?”

That morning Jay and I went for a six mile run so I got to see the Vibram 5 fingers “Barefoot running shoes” in action.

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