Merry Christmas.......LATE!

The holiodays are crazy when you travel!  Everything was rushed to get done before we even left on our Christmas vacation!  Unfortunately, many cards were never mailed out, oops :(  Our Christmas card was actually pretty cute but none of those pictures are on this hard drive, so i will just post some family pictures on our travels....from up North to down South.....


Everyone loved their new electronic gadgets and of course never a day goes by that Ed is not on the phone due to one of his devil pups getting in trouble....um, i did not get any electronic gadgets....




We went from freezing Northern Cali to beautiful sunny Southern Cali
Christmas from one extreme to the other!



CLR-2 Christmas Party

Ed's Christmas Party for work was a total blast for Ty and Ryan. They played Kinnect almost the entire time! They spent most the night throwing punches and kicking their opponent. Dinner was actually delicious and the evening of mandatory fun ended up being enjoyable! Vicki was like, "wow, there are LOTS of prego wives here!" Ed and i laughed, like duh, they all just got back from deployment about 5 months ago! Vicki said Ed is the super star at his work because all the Marines have to come over and sit and talk to him. She refers to his Marines as his "Fan Club" because whenever she goes anywhere with him they appear out of nowhere to say hello or holler at him from wherever they are. She says all you hear anytime you go places with him on base is "Gunny K! Gunny K!" lol Ty even let me take a quick picture of him with Santa, but Ryan said "No way!" and gave me the "slice the throat" gesture!

What Is Wrong With This Picture?

Ty and Ryan have decided that the Christmas Tree is a purfect place for them to stash their gloves when they come inside. I ignored their gloves, storm troopers, army men, and even Darth Maul during the Christmas season

It Was Bound To Happen

Just a bit behind and these next few hundred posts will be out of order as i transfer from my family journal to my blog.....We carefully decorated the tree leaving no decorations or lights at the bottom part of the tree. Unfortunately, our dogs are tall. They must have liked the smell....they managed to take down a ginger bread man and eat him. I was able to salvage a few parts before i gave these silly dogs of ours a lecture on eating Christmas decorations. I'm sure it went in one floppy ear and out the other but they didn't eat any more decorations for the rest of the holiday season!!!

It Didn't Fall Over!

For the first time in like a decade and some change our tree didn't fall over! Every year it has fallen over atleast once! Between little ones, kittens racing up and down it, grown up Tank still wanting to climb the tree, and clumsy Bisquit who thought the tree was his personal back scratcher , the tree has come crashing down every year, until this year! Wow! Jasper's powerful tail almost tipped it a few times, but someone was always close enough to grab it! Maybe we have started something new here.....