12.27.11 Tuesday

Kristen and Zub reminiscing



Ed, Maeve, laney, Fiona, hazel, chuck, dominik, and Kaitlin left-right



Kristen, tim, and papa



Fee in center with his new hat and nerf gun getup



Asher wows the crowd and dirties the walls with his spiderman skills.

More hangout time at home before the chuck and Ed Riley families came to celebrate with us. The little ones made a gingerbread house with Maeve and Fiona.
Jay bausback came and hung out too-- and Todd Zubler dropped by for a quick visit.

12.26.11 Monday

Mustaches from Kris and Dylan



A dog walk to the beach with maisy, roxy, charley, Otis, and Girl






It was another mild day in long beach. We did some hit tubbing too!



Ian and Ryan joined us for dinner:) and some 'loaded questions' later.

Christmas day 12.25.11

These santa dogs were very gassy.


Wow! Santy was good to all.
Hazel finally got blueberry girl! Fee got a batcave and Asher got tons of lego star wars sets. We had a wonderful day lounging around and playing with toys. Kristen and Dylan arrived just after dinner and we did adult presents with them.



Christmas night while Laney and papa picked up kris and Dylan.


Notable hazel phrases I don't want to forget......
"I'll get out of bath (or turn off the iPad) in two-two minutes".
- two-two minutes seems to actually mean NEVER

"I'm on the cheese cutting team!". -after she farts

"I did that last year!" - any time in the past hour to 3 years.

12.24.11 Christmas eve

We had a slow start out of ann arbor - stopped on Chelsea for a positive strep swab for Asher- :( but made it to long beach safely and in time for a walk on the beach with uncle Rico. No snow on the ground and 48 degrees! Maggie made delicious roasted veg and then the kids opened presents.




















Santa came by while we were at the beach and left the kids a present!



New pj crew. Yes, like Jcrew