Happy Birthday Papa Rich

Papa Rich turned 63 on February 12th and we celebrated at Tokyo Hibachi with my dad, Yvette, Aunt Mandy, Kamie and Joel. Thanks Yvette for treating all of us to a yummy and fun dinner and HAPPY BIRTHDAY PAPA RICH!

Bowling

We went bowling during Christmas Break with the Wiersma's, Griffith's, Clark's and Ebenhoch's at 300 in Pasadena. This place was not your average bowling alley. It was very fancy and even a little bit swanky. We were told that it is a lot of fun to go at night with adults and leave the kids at home... we'll have to try that sometime. Anyone interested?

Happy New Year!

We had a last minute get together at our house on New Year's Eve with the Gossett's and Surrell's. The kids wore pajamas, mommies wore sweats and dads wore jeans. We played "Just Dance" (of course). The Gossett's brought a couple of other WII games as well. We just hung out and chatted and played a board game just before midnight (New York time). We celebrated at 9:00 pm which was perfect since we all have small children.

Merry Christmas!!!

In the very wee hours of the morning, two little boys woke up their parents and grandparents (Papa Rich and Yvette) and crept downstairs to see what Santa had left them. While the adults started coffee and took a couple of moments to wake up, the boys opened up their stockings. We have had a tradition in the Shaon house since I can remember of ME dividing the packages according to the name tags and we open gifts one at a time in order of youngest to eldest. I don't know why we do it this way, but this year was no exception. We did let the boys open ALL of their gifts first before we opened ours. We had a wonderful breakfast casserole and bacon and the best tamales that my dad and Yvette bring each year. Dinner preparations began shortly after 12:00 noon. My sister Amanda joined us that afternoon when she finished her shift at work. I hope your Christmas was as wonderful as ours!!!!

Christmas Eve (part 2)

I know it seems silly to continue writing about Christmas Eve 2009 when February 2010 is almost over, but I don't think I can continue if I skip events, so here we go. After Christmas Eve dinner and opening presents, we played THE BEST GAME EVER!!! Just Dance (WII) Oh my goodness, it was so much fun (thanks Lauren for bringing it). We went out and purchased our very own copy the day after Christmas.

Christmas Eve (part 1)

We have spent Christmas Eve at Ken and Cindy's home for the past 4 years. This year we celebrated with Ken and Cindy, Zak and Lauren, and Devin. We had dinner and exchanged presents with them before going home to sprinkle reindeer food on the lawn and put out those fabulous Christmas cookies that we made earlier that day. Aiden received an art easel with a whiteboard, chalkboard, 2 rolls of paper and markers and Blake received about 10 boxes of different Lego sets from Ken and Cindy. Zak and Lauren bought Blake Nerf Dart Tag and bought Aiden a gumball machine. Devin and Stephanie bought the boys a super fun Star Wars game. They had full stockings to open at their house as well. Being the only grandchildren definitely has some rewards!!!!! Oh, and if you're wondering about the orange ring around both of their mouths in all of the pictures, that would be the Orange Crush we let them have at dinner....oops!

Frosting anyone?

Making cookies for Santa was one project..... it was an entirely separate project to frost the cookies later that afternoon. If you read the post just before this one you will notice that although it is the same day, Aiden is not in the same clothes... hmmmmm..... I think I'll let the pictures speak for themselves!