Kent Family Christmas

The Saturday after Christmas we headed up to Michigan for some visits with our extended families. Our first stop was in Jackson at Joseph's Grandma's house for the Kent Family Christmas party. It had been a couple years since we had seen some of the aunts and uncles and cousins, so it was great to be there. Jase enjoyed playing with his cousins and some second-cousins. We had some great food, lots of desserts, some games being played (Joe learned how to play cribbage), and a walk around the block.

Some of the family

Games and food

Don't you just love how well kids play with toys they aren't used too...

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Christmas Day

We had a wonderful Christmas Day at home in the morning and with some great friends in the afternoon.

Here we are Christmas morning after opening stockings. Meghan looks a little sleepy here, but in all actuality she doesn't really liker her tutu :( (I on the other hand love it). That is a penguin sticking out of the middle - she got it from her teacher at school/daycare.

Here is Meghan and Jase with Meghan's kitchen. She played with it for 3 hours Christmas morning. Now that's a perfect present!

Here Jase is showing off his "shark" car (I got these when I was a kid from cereal boxes I think, but never opened them). Jase was in heaven!

Jase also got a huge set of lincoln logs (almost 300 pieces). The Dora couch and blanket are Meghan's so as to stop any fighting and not wanting to share Jase's Cars couch. Now, Meghan spends most of her time on the Cars couch and Jase on the Dora...

Jase showing off our hard work of building each building shown on the instructions... Then he knocked it all down 5 minutes later when the "horse" broke out of the fence.

The kids also got a couple sets of pj's (one on Christmas Eve of course), an outfit of clothes, some books, art things, and a little candy. Jase was also the proud recipient of 12 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles action figures - thank you Craigslist!

We spent the afternoon sharing a delish meal with these Joneses (there's nothing better than hangin with Joneses - my Gramma was a Jones...). The kids played well, the women talked and referred the big kids with the little kids, the men talked computers and guns. A terrific way to end the day.

December pictures

Here are some catch up pictures from December, pre-Christmas.

Jase and his "babies" - he loves the packing peanuts...

Meghan has been wheezy a lot this winter and therefore has had more use of the nebulizer.
She actually wanted to do it this time all by herself (it is either this or her screaming and writhing the whole time).

We had spaghetti one night and the sauce was done before the noodles (homemade and frozen for ease of meals). The kids didn't want to wait for the noodles - they eat mainly sauce (aka sausage in the sauce) anyways.

Meghan has started to really try and copy Jase sometimes.
Here she wanted to play the V-Smile. How cute is that!

Back to blogging

Ok, so I've been very not in the blogging mood for the last couple months and in a rut. Here I come out of of it!

I got my hair cut on Saturday. When I left Joe asked what I was getting done and I told him getting a trim.

Well, Kailey was running behind so I looked at some style books and I came home looking like this:




I absolutely love it! I haven't had hair this short in years (way before dating Joe). I forgot how easy short hair is and how quick it is to make it look nice.

Plus, it is a new year, so why not have a new do!

Going Private

So, after a lot of deliberation we have finally decided to make our blog private.

Email us (jhholdaway(at)gmail.com) if you want to be added and have access.

And I promise that I will be back to blogging lots in the new year...

Sick

I realize that it has been a couple weeks since a new post, but we were busy and now I'm sick.

Not just not feeling well, but really, don't get out of bed the whole day sick. This is my 3rd day home from work and I'm feeling only slightly better (which is code for I got out of bed and am in the living room in the recliner).

This shall pass (hopefully soon) and then I'll be back to blogging...