Another Christmas party...

.... the day after Christmas.

We headed over to Lacey, to Jeromy's aunt Diane's house. We had another Christmas dinner to go to. And more presents to open.

We headed over a little early cause we were picking up Aurora and Jeromy wanted to get a new DVD player, cause our other one just crapped out. Well, there was a serious multiple car accident on highway 16, and a stretch of road that normally takes 3 minutes to travel (we know cause we timed it on the way back!) took over an hour and a half to get thru... that is noooo exaggeration either folks. But I am proud of Jeromy and I cause we kept our cool and stayed calm and patient.

So we got Aurora and headed to Lacey. We made it to aunt Diane's house safely. Here's daddy and Aurora chillin'......

Jeromy's middle brother Bill, and 2 of his 4 kids... Haley and Jacob...Here's Haley again, she's 18 months old...

Here we are just visiting... that's Bill's wife Kat, Jade, Kent and myself...Here we are up close and personal: Jade, Kenton and me again...Some of the kiddos playing games...

Here's Kaitlyn- but everybody calls her Katie mostly, and Haley... they are sisters, one has tight curly hair and the other has bone straight hair....

Johnna and Aurora.... Jeromy's step-mom Joanne fills these stockings she made every year for the kids. They open their stocking presents before they get the big presents under the tree. And she really had those things stuffed full!Yes people- he's a party animal- I can't take him anywhere!Watching while the kids unload their stockings....Fun stuff for the kids...

Kent was picked to hand out all the presents under the Christmas tree BUT he picked just that time, unfortunately, to go to the bathroom, and that boy likes to take his time, so Jade was chosen to pass them out. Doesn't she look particularly cute in this picture? Ya, I thought so, too!!!Aurora got books, she loves to read ya know!These kids were having so much fun...Our 3 kids: Jade 17, Kenton 15 and Aurora 10.Jeromy and his dad were helping the little boys put their scooters together.Yaaayyyy, Jacob got his scooter!Next, they took family pictures. They took one of our family, but they'll have to email it to me cause my camera was acting funny so they couldn't take it for me. But I was able to make the camera work for the other pictures I took. Here's Patsy's family. Patsy is Jeromy's foster sister while they were growing up. Patsy with her oldest son Anthony 20, she also has 18 year old Zack but he couldn't make it, then Johnna, Oscar and Rosie. Her husband Redd had to work today....Here's Jeromy's brother Bill and his wife Kat and their 4 kids, it was impossible to get them all to look up, but at least I got all 4 of them in the picture. Cameron is 5 I think, the twins are almost 3- Katie and Jacob, and Haley is 18 months....Here's the brothers. Adam is 28- I think, Jeromy is 31- the oldest, and Bill is 30- I think.Here's grandpa Chuck with the twins...After everyone opened presents, we also all brought a gift for the white elephant gift exchange. Then it was dessert time. Joanne made real whip cream, and guess who got the beater....We noticed that Jade and Johnna both had the same pair of trendy shoes... see for yourself...Here's our new DVD player that Jeromy is setting up right now...

And last but not least, last sunday our church had the kids come up and sing some songs for Christmas. Aurora's mom and step-dad and little sister drove Aurora over so she could sing with her friends.... here's the kids, there's also some Trig kids and Smith kids up their singing...Aurora is in the back row with the white sweater on with red underneath.Ok last thing, when we got home tonight, Aurora had little presents for us, too! First her grandma sent her home with another huge tray of homemade cookies for us- including peanut butter fudge dipped in chocolate! And snow flakes she made herself with a piece of candy. She also had a couple presents to open here, too! Thanks Grandma and Grandpa Drydale for her Christmas money!

Ok, good night!