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MERRY CHRISTMAS 2008

It has been so long since I get on here to blog. I figure better late than never. We had such wonderful holidays this year. starting with Christmas this year we had a family get together at
Kimmy's house what a blast it was to have the cousins over for dinner , white elephant gift exchange and for karaoke night!! Dinner was very delicious, we had appetizer, salad, lasagna, bread, and salad. then for desert we had some yummy apple crisp with ice cream and yummy guava jello.
After dinner we started getting ready for the gift exchange. I made a nativity out of clay pots and
was really cute . Kenzie was undesisive throughout the weekend on what to do she tossed around a few things and finally she came up and said she was going to give an empty box. iItold her to put all her love in it . so she made a card saying " if you are reading this it means you got all of my love" ... so they started the game off by oldest to youngest . I had ran home for a min with Jessica and when we got there the game started. by looks of it it looked like it was getting good. although Kade had an upset look because he picked his dad gift which was Kenzie's love and he didn't seem to think that the empty box with a note was fair. HAHAHA well my gift and Kenzies seem to be pretty top gifts.... oh yeah the 6 mugs to with the purse where pretty hot Poor Kade... I don't think he liked this game... So Mario ended up with all of Kenzies LOVE and then my aunt Carmen, as quiet as can be she liked her gift she got and held on tight so no one took it!!! In the end we all got some great white elephants. and had a fun time.



Off to Karaoke.. Uncle Mario brought his Karaoke which was fun to ..some of the songs on there we did not know so well but we tried to make the best out of it. we finally decided that we should do boys against girls we I think beat them once and they beat us one. We then went solo again singing songs we knew. I had my Uncle Mario sing a song called Amor Eterno, the words to this song are so beautiful making my mom cry because this reminds her of my dear Grandmother. well i guess pay backs came for making my mom cry, when Mario had me sing with him. he pre picked the song and I just started bawling to the song I did it my way... this made me reflect on this past year some of the things I choose to do in my way and this song hit me hard.
We laughed We cried but most of all we had a WONDERFUL night !




CHRISTMAS EVE at the Bakers house (Jonny & Taleesha )
first we had a lovely dinner that we all brought a dish to share . then we headed down stairs for the opening of the gifts. while every one got ready the kids were getting all excited. we started with the name change games within the sibling. YEAH I got the new PIctionary!!! The children could not wait to open the gift but they were so patient. AND TIME CAME FOR GRAMA AND GRANDPA gifts.... and on three ...1,2.3 they open their WII"S ... and the kids could have not been more excited... there were lots of fun gifts given as well and the kids could have not been more happy and grateful for all they got...






that night I stayed up wrapping kenzies gifts and finally got to sleep when it felt like she was just waking me up.. we open her "Santa" gifts and exchanged with bekah. we had a wonderful christmas 2008.

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