Dad Egg's Christmas Ornaments 2011

Every year my Dad makes ornaments for the Christmas tree that signify what has gone on in our families lives. This year was another great year of ornaments.

First up. My brother and his wife bought a house in Fort Wayne. If you have seen their house you would agree that this looks just like it!


My dad and I do building projects every year, and this year we did two. We built lockers in our laundry room, and we built a shed. But instead of doing 2 ornaments he did two ornaments in one.




As our family becomes more technologically advanced we seem to have more and more "i" products. IPhones, IPads, IPods... So we needed something to signify this.


This year my brother had a trip to the Emergency Room and some time in the hospital, because of not taking in a enough of the right liquids when playing tennis. He found out that you have to drink and equal amount of water when you drink Gatorade (he was only drinking Gatorade). So hear the scales to remind him to keep balanced.


My dad is heavily involved in Red cross. He has even done deployments to help out where crises have occurred. This spring he went to Joplin, Missouri to help the Tornado victims. What he did every day was help take meals to people in an ERV (Emergency Response Vehicle). If you wondered what and ERV looked like, well, here you go.


My brother and his wife were unable to go on a honeymoon when they got married, so they finally took their honeymoon this spring and went on a cruise.


The last big event of the year took place in October when we took the kids to Disney World with my parents. We all loved it, but there is nothing more iconic about Disney World than Cinderella's Castle. Check out all the detail!


Hope you have enjoyed seeing these ornaments as much as my Dad enjoyed making them.

Great job Dad!!!

Last Years Ornaments:
2010
2009- a video
2008
2007

Kids Meet Santa With Smiles

The kids needed a chance to meet with Santa. We were hoping that it would go better than last year (Sydney bawled and wouldn’t even walk up to him). We saw a sign on a local café that said Santa would be there over lunch.

We decided it was worth a try, we had been wanting to try their food anyways. When we got there Sydney again was not thrilled about seeing Santa (crying in the parking lot). But we convinced her to go in to eat and that she didn’t HAVE to see Santa. Well, thankfully, that was the low point of the lunch.

About 5 minutes after we got there who should walk in but MRS. CLAUS! Sydney almost jumped out of our booth so she could see her. Mrs. Claus came around to see everyone at their tables. We had to pretty much hold Sydney down until she got to our booth. Aparently Syd is a much bigger fan of the Mrs.!




After we finished eating we went over to see Santa. I could explain how that went or just let you watch the video.




As you can tell both kids were just thrilled. It went so well. Riker was always happy to Santa, he didn’t care much for Mrs. Claus (there was some eye-rolling LOL)




We were so grateful for an awesome, very personal and long visit with BOTH Santa and Mrs. Claus! Merry Christmas Everyone!

Merry Christmas 2011

It the Christmas season again!! Every year for the past 4 years we have done some kind of Christmas video that we have posted on our Blog or Facebook. Here are our videos from the previous years:
2008

2009

2010


This years Christmas video took on a life of its own. I could explain the video or I could let the video take care of that.


We had planned for 12 days, but with a 3 and 5 year old we were happy with 7. At least it covers a whole week, right!? :-)

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!