So....I just came across this post I wrote a few weeks ago....the last installment of our Christmas celebrations! (Not sure how I never got this posted....ooops!)
Okay....One more Christmas post! This party actually happened the weekend before Christmas...what a busy time of year!!!
Every Christmas, we have a little party for a group of our friends. These are actually mostly Jason's high school buddies...who (luckily for me) married well....and have very cool wives and kids! I wrote about last year's party here. So...we get pizzas and everyone brings a snack or dessert and we get together. We also all draw names for each of the kids and they have a gift exchange. Santa has made an appearance at our last couple of gatherings as well!
Now, this is always a sick time of year...but we have lucked out and had everyone be healthy for this party....UNTIL NOW. Sadly...a few minutes before things got started, Nikole called and said her kids had fevers :( and they were not coming. This really bummed us all out...and made for a much smaller group for the picture. We still had lots of fun....especially the kids. Also, as the kids expected, Santa DID make his appearance...
Between the 6 guys (Jason, Jeff, Gabe, Eric, Andy, Steve and Jason) there are 17 kids! That would have surprised all of us if you would have told any of us that 10 years ago.... Like I said...the Hoeger family was sick and Andy's baby stayed home to stay away from all of the sick)...but this was not an easy group picture to get. We actually never got a FULL group picture. :( But here are the attempts.
The kids played very well together (but were very wild!)
They LOVED it when Santa came down the stairs....well, MOST of them loved it.
Now for a little reminiscing....I had to go back and look for the pictures from our past parties....
I didn't find one from every year...but here is what I have!
This is from 2006! Just Lily, Keaton and a 2 week old Lola.
This was Christmas 2008. (I didn't find any pictures from 2007.)
Here we have Parker, Keaton, Lola, Lily, Colton, Vaughn, Avery and Alaina!
This was Christmas 2009. (Actually in age order!)
Keaton, Lily, Lola, Vaughn, Avery, Parker, Colton, Alaina, Nash, Hayden & Tyce
This was Christmas 2010....2 pictures here...because this was also the first year that SANTA came!
Keaton, Lily, Lola, Vaughn, Avery, Parker, Colton, Alaina, Nash, Tyce and Tate.
...and in 2010, all of the kids with Santa!
and last year....Christmas 2011....
(and if you want the names...check out the blog post about this last year!)
well...that is it for the Christmas stuff! (Phew) Amazing to see how the kids have
changed and grown (and multiplied) over the years!
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