The Keil's came down to our house to play a game of Rage. We miss playing games with them...move back to Utah!! :) Our boys were born on the same day and we always joke that they will be best friends. Neither of them had naps and Rylan fell asleep while watching Curious George. We had to wake him up to say goodbye and take a picture. So they may not have had tons of fun together, but the mommy's and daddy's had a great time!!
Since the folks are on a mission in Switzerland we got together at Kim and Andy's house for the Doyle Christmas Party. You know when the Doyle's get together there will be lots of laughing and fun. Perhaps the biggest laugh of the night was the joke by Mark and Heidi. They broght a gift that was supposedly from the folks to the whole family. Kim unwrapped the largest pair of underwear I've ever seen with some inappropriate chocolate stains. Yeah, definately not from the folks! It was hilarious and I'm sure I had tears streaming down my face I was laughing so hard. Mark and Heidi were pretty proud of their joke and I admit, that's gonna be hard to beat next year.
We ate a yummy dinner of roast beef sandwiches with other yummy side dishes and dessert. Then we exchanged gifts, starting with the kids. Rylan was very happy with his legos (thanks Lauren!) and Asher's finger puppets are cute! I got a great bag from Steph (who got to spend Christmas in Switzerland with the parents so she missed our party) and Kevin got some socks, shirts and a book from Kim...awesome! It was a great party and somehow Kevin and I were the last to leave.
My mom's birthday is on Christmas Eve and we have a tradition to go to breakfast that morning. I love it, and I hope she does too! We've gone to Mimi's for several years but for some reason we don't have the greatest service so we decided to go to Ihop this year. It was delicious and we had a great time. I think my mom was surprised and happy with all her gifts.
It's our little familiy tradition to open one gift of Christmas Eve and that gift is a book. I don't know why we decided against pajamas like most people! Rylan got a whole Curious George library of books and Asher got The Velveteen Rabbit (opened by Rylan).
Rylan got a train set from santa. We recorded him coming down the stairs knowing he'd be super excited. And he was, but again, Rylan's not big on showing emotion. But in his own little way we could tell he was excited. He's played with it for hours every day since. I bought my own presents (earrings and a pancake griddle) and didn't wrap any of them so I didn't unwrap anything on Christmas morning. But that's okay because I'm super excited about my lazyboy chair we picked up (well, my dad picked it up for me) on Christmas Eve. It's nice and comfy and nursing Asher now sometimes puts me to sleep in the middle of the night. Kevin knew of a couple of his gifts but was also surprised with a couple more. It's his year of running I guess because he got a couple running shirts and some new running shoes. He also got some new dress pants which he bought himself.
That afternoon we met up with my parents, Tami and Garren and their family, and we drove up to a cabin in Timberlakes. We nustled in, had a delicious ham and potatoes dinner, and relaxed all weekend. Of course I ate way too much all weekend but all the food was so yummy and c'mon, don't we all eat too much on vacation? Kevin and Garren spent most of the time downstairs playing Xbox which was fine with the rest of us since the kids spent most of the time downstairs as well. That means that I got to play games with my parents and Tami and talk and just relax. We went to bed late and slept in late. The rest of the fam came up on Saturday to have a gift exchange and to play games. All of us being together for just one day was not enough. I think I could lock my family up in a cabin together for months and months and it still wouldn't be enough! But ohhh, how I love cabin time.
To end off this December fun I'll post some more pics of Rylan and Asher. Rylan was in the bath one day and heard the garbage truck come. He was too excited to finish bathing so he jumped out to look out the window. I just had to take a picture. And he just loves his doggy towel which cracks me up!
Asher is 9 weeks. He's all about smiles and stinky feet these days. I haven't been able to take a picture of him smiling because it's hard to make him smile and take a picture at the same time. And how does he have stinky feet? I didn't know babies could have stinky feet. He does. But I still love him and I can't seem to hold him and love him enough. Some days I just look at him and cry because he's so amazing.
2 comments:
You have such cute little boys. I wish I could have joined you for all the game playing! I miss playing games more than I should admit. I did get in a game of Settlers on New Years Day. Of course I won, but I won't tell you who my oppontents were!
Ok, seriously laughing SO hard at those panties...can we even call them panties??? I had to ask Adam to come in and check them out too! Love the photos of the boys, Rylan may win props for the 2nd cutest bum (sydney wins, teehee) and I can't believe how big Asher is all of a sudden! Too cute!
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