What I want to remember about Christmas 2010...

I want to remember.........

The time spent with my sisters.

Sam and I snuggling and watching twice upon a christmas. Sam asking to sit by ella every meal we ate out. No wonder she took to him so much.

Grocery shopping with Asher while teaching him about couponing.

This pic of my mom and ella. It says so much about their relationship. Ella is indeed smitten with her mimi.

The oohs and aahs said by all the cousins at the aquarium.

The sweet kisses that ella would blow to all 3 of her cousins-elijah, sam, and asher.

Standing in line to go through the penguin crawl with ella, natalie, asher, and sam. Enough said it was crazy.

Getting to spend 2 weeks with matthew being off work. It was so nice.

Asher and I wrestling and playing basketball when he let me. :)

The guys playing legos. (All the guys)

Playing settlers of catan--not the ipad version like Sam is playing but the board game. Playing with sam on night two was funny. Natalie, Michael, and I never thought that a five year old would have actually hung with us on this game.

Going to Waffle house with Ben and Natalie at 1:00 am.

Watching my mom and her siblings look at the books that phil made them. The pictures in the album and the memories captured were priceless to them.

Ella looking at April's belly and saying baby. Then the next day she pointed and said Paisley.

The many conversations that were shared.

Debbie making mom, doug, and phil an apron out of the sheets they had when they were younger. (ok..so doug and phil's aparon will probably be worn by lisa and bai but still really cool)

The time that we all got to spend catching up.

Ella and sam wrestling in the hallway.

Talking to elijah about life in SF. He is wise beyond his years. I enjoyed talking to him about life in general.

I want to remember the cousins outside all playing basketball together.

The pictures taken that will be remembered from generation to generation (there are 4 generations here)

Spending time with my cousins and watching the little cousins play with one another.

Thankful for the memories and the ones that were captured.

What the pics don't tell

1. We are a really loud family

2. We ate a lot of food during this week together.

3. We stayed up really late every night together.

4. We played a lot of settlers of catan.

5. We really enjoy spending time together.