Christmas 2006
We once
again spent Christmas at the house. It was full of friends, family and food. We
hosted Alana's mothers' group (GALS, Giving All Ladies Support) holiday party
at the house the first weekend of December and after that it seemed like we
were doing something every weekend.
Bill's
company holiday party was held at the Four Seasons Biltmore and Tyler spent his
first night with a babysitter other than Grandma and Grandpa. Fortunately, we
were able to line up a sitter that Tyler knew from GALS. He was very excited
when she showed up at the door, which was a relief, and we got a night to
ourselves. It was bliss.
One of
Tyler's little buddies had a birthday party right before Christmas and Tyler
got to bounce around at the local kids gym at the party. Then he got to enjoy
some green icing on the birthday cupcakes. Yum!
Christmas
day was full of presents and food. Tyler made out like a bandit. Santa brought
him an easel and a cool fold out couch with the characters from the Pixar movie
Cars. There was definitely a Cars theme going on. I'd say about 85% of the
gifts he received were related to Cars. Considering the word "car"
was one of his first words we shouldn't be surprised.
Christmas
dinner Bill took on the task of cooking his first prime rib. It turned out
awesome and we got to share it not only with Alana's family, but with family
friend, Joe, and his mother, Julianna. I don't think that will be last time it
is cooked at our house.
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Enjoying the Vetronix/ETAS party sans Tyler |
Tyler and Jackson digging into the cupcake and
icing at Sutter's 2nd birthday party. |
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Birthday boy Sutter enjoying the icing off of his
cupcake. |
Dakota, Morgan, and Tatum enjoying some of the
birthday party snacks. |
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Sharing a bow with Grandpa the day before
Christmas. |
Santa delivered! |
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Opening the first gift of the morning. |
Checking out the cool cars from Aunt Lillian and
Uncle Hing. Thank you! |
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The aftermath. |
An action shot of Tyler in the air trying to
launch his new stomp rocket. He missed, but what a cool shot! |
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This time he got it. |
Tyler multi-tasking - sitting at his new Cars
table, playing on his new laptop and watching TV (which is playing a video
about cars of course). |
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Tyler sharing a croissant with Grandpa at his new
table, using his new Cars dishes and his Cars books from Grandma and Grandpa
Rose. |
The proud chef carving up the prime rib. |
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Christmas dinner. Let's eat! |
Tyler checking out one of his favorite new toys, a
Cars viewfinder. |
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The day after Christmas Grandpa got crazy at the
park with Tyler. |
Tyler's hair grows so fast. He doesn't mind
getting it cut as long as he gets some candy afterwards. |
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Tyler showing off his masterpiece he created on
his new easel from Santa. |
OK, now Mama is just bugging Tyler trying out her
new camera she got for Christmas. |
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Dad, that's my tunnel! Get out of there! It
belongs on the floor! |
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