Christmas in January

John and I haven't been in America for Christmas since we moved to East Asia in 2004. Since we were arriving in America fairly close to Christmas our families decided to celebrate with us when we got here. Kayleigh and Zeb had a blast! I have never seen so many presents in my life and neither had they. It was so fun to be in America and celebrate Christmas. I had forgotten what it was like.

Henry and Alana opening their presents from us.

A very jet-lagged Kayleigh with her new shopping cart.

Zeb with his new cars!

Friends for Dinner

We had our friends Brooke and Aaron over for dinner last night. They have a little boy named Nathan. Kayleigh and Nathan play really well together. Nathan has a birthday coming up soon. For his birthday they are going to ride a real train. Ever since Brooke gave me the invitation Kayleigh has said everyday that she is going to ride the train with Nathan. She is so excited! Since his party is several weeks away I told her one day that we were not going to ride it today. Her reply was "tomorrow". Luckily, she doesn't have any concept of when tomorrow will come. Below they are watching the movie "Cars". Kayleigh really likes that movie and she wanted to share it with Nathan. You can see they were glued to the t.v.