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Christmas 2010 |
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| Christmas 2010 family photos...Paul and Maria |
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| The 7 of us...Paul, Bethany, Brielle, Jared, Maria, Suzan and Anna |
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| The kids...Bethany, Brielle, Jared, Suzan and Anna |
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| The kids again ;) ...Suzan, Anna, Jared, Brielle and Bethany |
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| Just of the girlies...Suzan, Anna, Brielle and Bethany |
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| Just of Jared :) |
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| Our family pic for Christmas cards! |
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| Our Christmas card for this year (made by Maria :) ) - front |
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| Back |
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Trip to Phoenix Zoo Lights - 12/4/2010 |
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| Bethany waiting for the zoo to open |
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| Suzan |
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| Anna |
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| Brielle |
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| Jared |
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| Pics of some of the lights we saw...a giraffe |
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| A flamingo |
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| A grasshopper |
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| A Kangaroo with baby |
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| They have a light show with the trees. Very cool! |
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| A butterfly |
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| Snack time, of homemade kettle corn and chocolate milk - YUM! Brielle |
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| Anna |
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| Suzan |
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| Bethany and Jared |
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| More light displays...Big Blue |
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| A road runner |
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| Cacti lights |
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| A rabbit |
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| A scorpion...yeah, we have these here for sure :P |
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| A palm tree |
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| A penguin at the entrance/exit |
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| Jared pulled out his GeoTrax trains and set up a train under and around our Christmas tree :) |
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| The girlies like to play with the trains too! |
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Gingerbread house building with Grammy! - 12/23/2010 |
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| Jared did the building and then the girlies helped with the decorating :) |
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| I think this was the first year for Jared to do the building (and holding/squeezing of the frosting) all by himself. Yay Jared! |
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| The girlies were VERY patient, waiting and watching Big Brother |
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| Jared doing a great job! |
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| "mama, when can we open these?!?!?!" |
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| "and these?!?!?!" |
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| "these too, mama?!?!?!" |
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| Okay, NOW! Let the candy flood gates open!!!!!!!!! |
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| Grammy brought some "extra" candy, just in case some of the kids wanted to "taste test" the building materials ;) |
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| Just about done |
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| There it is! |
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The front. Poor Santa (on the left) started to
"melt" a bit - Ha! Nice icicles on the roofline Jared! |
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Christmas Eve |
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Our friends, the Murphys, came over Christmas Eve, just
to say "hi" and see us. Here, all the kids!! Bethany, Suzan, Ryan (4.5yo), Jared, Russell (1.5yo), Grace (6.5yo), Brielle and Anna |
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| Bethany opening presents |
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| What is it Neen? New Christmas jammies! Yay! |
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| Anna's turn (she did the bow on her head herself - Ha ;) ) |
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| Showing Mama what she got...new Christmas jammies too! |
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| Jared got new Christmas jammies too! |
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| And socks too ;) |
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| Brielle's turn |
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| Showing Daddy her new Christmas jammies |
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| Suz wants to wear a bow on her head too - Ha! ;) |
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| Suzan's turn |
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| "oooo! new Christmas jammies!" :) |
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| Jared being silly :P |
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| 1 more Christmas Eve gift to open |
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| A Sing-a-ma-jig in Suz's color! Cool! |
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| Bethany's turn again |
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| A Sing-a-ma-jig for Neen! |
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| Even one for Jared (he knew the girlies were getting them and wanted one too ;) ) |
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| Anna's turn |
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| And Brielle's |
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| "daddy look!!!!" |
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| "look mama!" |
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| Anna watching the mouth open and sing on her Sing-a-ma-jig |
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| Brielle watching hers |
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| Nee Nee watching hers too. They are pretty cool Bethany! |
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| The kids, ready to go to our church's Christmas Eve service. Cute kids! :) |
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Christmas Day/morning! |
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| Jared opening up his BIG present |
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| Ooooo! What is it Bud? A very cool Lego City set! |
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| A very excited boy :) |
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| Stocking time |
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| Yes, Santa hats and mini wooden yellow school buses for everyone :) |
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| New mittens for the girlies |
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| Books and sweets too! |
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| And new Christmas socks for the girlies (which they are still wearing into the New Year ;) ) |
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5 cute kids Christmas morning! Jared, Brielle, Bethany, Anna and Suzan |
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| Christmas dinner (yes, we ALL eat at the kids table ;) ). Poor Paul blinded by the AZ sunlight :P |
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| More gifts, from Grammy...watches for the kids |
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| Bethany |
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| Anna |
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| Brielle |
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| Suzan |
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| Kid videos from Grammy |
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| A game for the girlies |
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| Yahtzee Jr TS3 for Jared from Grammy |
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Jared also got an Ipod for Christmas (from Mom and
Dad). Jared rocking out on some kids Christian music and building away on his Lego set |
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| Just showing the girlies in the background with their new baby strollers and Sing-a-ma-jigs (or what they call their "babies" ;) ) |