Christmas Eve with the Kudrons

Christmas time was full of fun festivities.  We hosted the Kudrons this year at our house on Christmas Eve.  This was a milestone moment for Steve and me.... we cooked our first ever turkey!  Granted, we took the easy way out getting the turkey that is in a bag and all you basically need to do is put it in the oven but still... it was a proud moment.  Dinner turned out great... a little too many options (because we were afraid we'd ruin the turkey...LOL) but good nevertheless.

 

The grown ups enjoyed time to hang out...

 

The house was decorated just right... 

 

Grandpa helped in the kitchen... thank goodness!!!  I'm always so nervous to screw it up!

Present time... woo-hoo... the kids favorite part!

 

The cousins love to get time to hang out...

 

And finally ending our night with our traditional reading of Twas the Night before Christmas...



Christmas with the Graces

We celebrated Christmas with the Graces a few days early because Jeff and Julie and Gigi and Papa.  We had a low-key afternoon all focused on Baby Annie's first Christmas!  That will cutie-pie is getting so big so fast. Seriously, we were all hovering over her so much.  Poor thing was probably scared of us all because we all wanted our special time with her.  We  had a nice lunch and some time to just hang out and relax. 

 

 

Great time with family.  We look forward to a life time of special Christmas moments to come!

 



The End of an Era for Ryan... AYSO

Ryan has just finished completing an amazing season.  Her AYSO team came in first place and went on to play in the area tournament against other teams.  They lost in the finals.  Ryan played so hard.  And then, she also made the AYSO All-Star team and was playing simultaneously on that team as well.  The All-Star also went to the area tournament and lost in the finals... in PKs.  Actually, both the semi-final game and the final game went to penalty kicks.  Ryan made both of her beautiful shots.  We came out the winner of the semi final PK shoot out but fell short in the finals.

 

Ryan played 12 soccer games and had 10 practices in just two weeks... the poor kid is beat!

But... if you'd ask... she do it all over again. 

 

Now on to the club State Cup in San Diego!  Wish her luck!