Christmas 2009

We went over to Jim + Shawna's to celebrate Xmas eve with a game night and a special dinner. John got his family's spaghetti recipe, complete with pork chops, sausage and meatballs, and I made it the best I could. It took 6 hours to cook (simmering) and the meat was all very tender. I will probably make it again soon, but with more meatballs (that was pretty much everyone's favorite). The pork was pretty tender too.




We got Alex a bath toy, and little Jacob a cute little owl toy. And Shawna graciously relinquished the baby girl clothes she has kept, for me to use for Olivia soon. Very cute outfits! And the funny thing is, they got Lucas a gift that he really appreciated--this little book that lights up, with music and reading, was given to him by John's mom when we were in CA, but John spilled coffee on it and we had to throw it away---so when he saw the brand new one he was so pleased that it came back to life! Thank you!




This is the book!

This is the great picture john took of me playing with Lucas lol..

And Lucas bothering Alex when he's supposed to sleep...he likes Alex:



I was having painful contractions here and there all night, thinking maybe I would have a Christmas baby, but no luck yet. Next appt is on monday, so hopefully there will have been some progress.

And then for Christmas, we really just stayed home and played a little rock band with Norman, and then Susan decided to take us all out to dinner. There were very few places open so we ended up going to this Chinese restaurant by our house--so "Christmas Story" movie of us huh? The food was pretty good and Lucas kept flirting with the chinese waitresses and playing with the chopsticks.


Everyone's so into the movie!





Thanks Susan!
This was his favorite waitress


It was an alright Christmas; we keep telling ourselves every year, "next year we will really celebrate Christmas and buy stuff for each other.." but we always have something we need to save money for and decide not to. It kind of makes me sad, but I know everything will be different when John is out of the Navy and Lucas and Olivia are a little older. I hope everyone had a nice Christmas and that you will have a happy and prosperous 2010!