*Friday, Dec. 19th--"Winter Party" at Joshua's school. I am homeroom mom for his class, so there was some stress, but overall the party was a great success. They each wore chef hats and decorated gingerbread houses!--That's right...let Tina plan the party and we will have a long lasting activity that keeps them calm and in their seats! They did have fun, though!:)
That night we had "Big Family Christmas" at my parents' house. Normally this involves my parents and all of my siblings and their families. This year, my older sister and her husband were unable to attend due to a business engagement, but my nephews still came. Steven brought his girlfriend, Barbara, whom we already love.--This is a good thing because before the break was over, he had proposed!:) We all enjoyed getting to visit, eat, open presents, eat and let the kiddos play (and eat!).
*Sunday, Dec. 21--Kirk, the boys and I headed out early to meet all of the Fridrich clan at church in Shawnee. The little kids' choirs were doing a Christmas musical and my boys enjoyed getting to be there.
That night, Aunt Cindy, Aunt Kelle, Morgan and the Davis bunch came over to Nanny and Gramps' and we ate and opened presents. (Is anyone seeing an underlying theme to our family get togethers?) Nanny/Gramps' spoiled us way too much and were finally able to tell the boys the big family gift...a trip for all of us to the Bahamas on Spring Break! We bohunks ended the evening-o-fun with a rousing time singing karoke! (No joke! We had the machine, microphone and everything!)
*Monday, Dec. 22--Both Nanny and JT were sick. Thankfully we were able to get appointments with Nanny's dr. in Shawnee. John Thomas had strep!!! He was pretty miserable, and taking that first round of antibiotics was a nightmare, but he was a trooper and improved drastically after a couple of days. (Nanny is STILL sick!) That night, I drove back to Tulsa to go to the Rockettes at the BOK Center with Mom, Melissa and Tracey. It was amazing and such a good time with the girls.
We stayed at Nanny/Gramps' until Christmas Eve afternoon, and then left with everyone to go to Prague. It was the first time any of us would spend the evening at Kirk's grandma's house without her being there. Although a beautiful poinsetta sat in her chair, her presence was so with us.
Kirk, the boys, and I left out with just enough time to meet my parents and Melissa, Rus and the girls at church in Tulsa for the Christmas Eve service. Campbell has already become a "Baddley Girl" in that she talked so much and so loud that Rus had to take her out!
We spent that night eating, of course, and getting the kids ready for a visit from Santa. Every year they wear matching Christmas pj's. It's been fun to add a new cousin the past two years! (Kirk did say that this would DEFINITELY be the last year for Joshua to wear the "fitted" kind!)
*Thursday, Dec. 25-Saturday, Dec. 27th--We spent at Mom and Dad's. Christmas morning was a hit as always. The kids were all nuts over Santa's visit and all of their gifts. It was several hours before the adults even started opening! Mom and Dad went totally overboard and lavished us all. We had a great breakfast and played all day and into the night, continuing when Tommy, Amy and Griffin came over for dinner.
*Saturday we were able to take down almost all of Mom's decorations. She likes LOTS and it is usually a MASSIVE and very tedious undertaking, but for some reason, this year was different. It still was a lot of work and took ALL day, but I truly enjoyed getting to be together and visit and share memories as we worked.
It sounds so corny, when we live a mile and a half a way and see each other all the time, but it is always a little emotional for me to leave their house after the holiday.
*Sunday, Dec. 28--We got to have Brett with us for church and lunch because he was already at TU practicing with the team. What a treat. We are so proud.
*Monday, Dec. 29/Tuesday, Dec. 30--We hung out, played, put away our decorations; one day it was 70 degrees and the kids got to play outside with no jackets! We also went to Owasso to see Lucy and the girls for lunch and playtime. Kirk came and got JK and they went to join the rest of the Fridrich/Davis boys for the Thunder game in OKC. Joshua got to see Shaq and Steve Nash!
*Wednesday, Dec. 31/Thursday, Jan.1--Nanny, Gramps and the Davis gang came and spent the night and rang in the new year! Guess what we did? (EAT!) We also had a basketball tourney on JK/JT's new arcade basketball hoops in the gameroom. I believe Brett won.:)
*Friday, Jan.2--Nanny and I took the boys to the mall while Kirk, Gramps and Kyle surprised them by changing out their rooms. We brought the boys home to the surprise of bunk beds for JK and big boy furniture for JT!
*Sunday, Jan.4--We went to church and to eat at the Renaissance with Nana and Grandaddy. Afterwards, we rushed home, changed clothes and headed out to the BOK Center to see the Harlem Globetrotters!! Compliments of Aunt Cindy!--What a great gift. It was a terrific time. We had second row seats right behind the Globetrotter bench and spent the afternoon laughing and oohing and ahhhing. What a great way to end the winter break!
*It goes without saying that the TV was on 24/7 the entire break airing only football bowl/ playoff games and an occasional late night movie on ONDemand. Go TU Hurricane. Enough said.Okay, I know that was not exactly in "bullet form"...I tried, I really did. Okay, not so much!:) You can wake up now...It's finally over!
2 comments:
i love a good catch up post!
but now i am hungry. i think i will go eat! ;)
Yea!!!! Your blog is now active...as opposed to innactive...which it has been for weeks!
Guilt, be thou removed from my sister!
Love you.
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