Blech!!!

Starting Thursday morning and still going...sick kids.
I feel so bad for them because they've each taken their turn hurling.

Joe has been lethargic all day today, and yesterday. He started out with runny diapers, then throw up all over everything on Friday night, now runny pooh all over himself all the time.

Isabel threw up the most (twice at Sara's (sorry Sara) then 4 more times through out the night...dang girl!) Now she has terrible congestion.
As for Max, he kept saying, "I feel fine." Then last night it hit, all over himself in bed, and then twice again today.
This post has really been quite disgusting, sorry! I just want to remember the trials in life, because they truly make me stronger. Get better soon sweet angels!

New Years... Party?

Well, we must be getting old when we can't even make it till midnight. We invited some of our friends over for some fun and games before the drop of the ball. Girls won the game, and that really was the highlight of the night!

Donny and Sara were getting their drink on. "Cheers!"

Tawnya, Tua, and Lil siah just barely keepin' the eyes open

And here's my sweet husband who fell fast asleep shortly after this picture was taken

Sorry to our friends who had to fight to stay awake at our "rockin' New Years party." Maybe next year we'll get some rock stars to keep us awake. Hahaha.

Here's to a prosperous and healthy 2010!

Yay, Christmas is here!

Christmas morning was wonderful! Kids slept in until about 8:00, and when we came upstairs there were a few gifts left on the fire place from Santa. Thank you Mr. Clause, we love our toys. I tried to capture the look on each child's face. Didn't do a very good job, but you'll get the point.

What a magical morning. I love my little angels.

Of course after we were done playing with toys, and eating breakfast, the Browns came over. We got to open more presents, spoiled children! The gift of the day was the announcement that Papa and Grandma are taking all of us to Disney World in March. WOW! Thank you so much!

Joseph was in love with the new hoodie that Papa and Grams got him. He also loved his nerf gun.

Maximus the little ham posing with his new Transformers T-shirt

Lauric, in her tinker bell costume.

Here's Sharley, and Jonah with all the kids

Princess Bell

Awe, how cute

We also did a gift exchange/white elephant. One for the men, and one for the women. The men had a $10.00 spending limit, and the women had to bring a gift that they already owned that was special to them. Reece received a Surfer magazine (which he gave to Stan) and a family movies pack, and some beef Jerky. I, got something really special that was probably really hard for the giver to let go of. It was the little princess movie staring Shirley Temple. This gift was given by my mom who was trying to be tricky. I guess in the movie, at the end, Shirley Temple get's a quilt for Christmas. So low and behold, I also got a quilt.

Wow, thanks again Mom.

After eating See's candy, and yummy homemade dips all day... we decided to make more food. Turkey dinner what a treat! Thank you Dad and mom for a wonderful day of presents and food and fun!

Dad loves to just rip those legs off that Turkey!
Mmmm, and I love Turkey dinner for Christmas.

So after Dinner we played our traditional Nertz game( Kudos to Jonah who played with my dad, and they won!), and then got to bed for an early trip to Vegas the next day.
(Vegas to take Sharley and Jonah to the airport)

Some other fun things we did while in New Harmony:

The kids loved to snuggle with Papa, and Grandma for movies.

Here's matching pajamas for all the baby girls

Don't ask

Max had fun frosting and decorating some cookies with Mavis

Oh my, these boys are crazy! Or maybe just proving their manly-ness.

In, and Out... Not just a burger.

Another fun thing we did while at grandma and papa's house was taking the quads to a secluded hill to go sledding. I didn't bring my camera to the hill so here are the before pictures:

Maley

Lauric, Maley, Max, and Conner

Big tough Joe, with the pink boots.

Isabel, and Lauric. Snow bunnies!King Maximus!

Well wasn't that fun! Can not wait until March for our trip to Disney. Also looking forward to the next snow fall in N.H. so we can make a trip up to our new spot. My oh my, what a very Merry Christmas.

Christmas Eve at home

We would not be at home for Christmas day, and did not want to take all presents with us to the folks house, so we let the kids open presents Christmas Eve morning.

Little Joe loved to see what was inside the wrapping.

Max of course loved every gift he opened for about 3 seconds. Then it was on to the next to see what else was waiting for him. Crazy boy.

And here's our little Izzy. She had the best facial expressions while opening. She was so excited about everything she got!

Reece and I got each other a few random gifts. One of our favorites was the Magic bullet. Awesome!

After a fun morning of Opening presents early (and then packing for our trip to N.H.), we headed over to the Toiaivao's house for a brunch with friends.

All the girls

Ena and Iz

Kawai, and Joe

Max, Joe, and Ice

Luke, and Isabel

Kaleo, and Tua

Malea, and John

Reece, and Donny

Thank you Toiaivaos for filling our tummys with yummies, and for always being there.

Back to the house to load the car. After a 3 hours we finally reached New Harmony. We all got to sit down and visit...

(meeting Jonah, Sharley's new boy toy.)

After dinner my mom requested the nativity with all 5 grandchildren, Mavis was awesome at creating the costumes while I was awesome at being the A**.
Heres the kids:

Sweet Angel baby Maley

Mary, Joseph, and The Babe

Here's the whole crew (Lauric was a shepherd)

After pictures Joe just wanted to snuggle his Papa

This was our exciting Christmas Eve. Seems like we do the same thing each year (I guess that's why it's called tradition) but every year it gets better and better.