It's a Christmas Miracle...

after being delayed in Germany a day... running into the snow storm on the east coast and being stuck in Chicago for two days... then being detoured to Wichita Falls on Christmas day due to our beautiful snow storm in Oklahoma City... then a 2 1/2 hour drive from Wichita Falls to Oklahoma City... Kale finally made it home for Christmas. we were so happy to finally have him back home after being deployed for 6 weeks and delayed in airports for 4 days.

we enjoyed our Christmas dinner on the night of Christmas, then opened our gifts the next day. the boys didn't know the difference, but they had fun... especially kye. shey just enjoyed chewing on the wrapping paper while jumping in his jumper, and kye had fun not only opening his gifts, but shey's gifts as well.

it's a houser tradition to get family pictures in front of the tree, but as usual each picture seems to digress and our family gets smaller. next christmas we'll just send a picture of a family of two... kale and liz... as neither of our boys will want to sit still for a family picture.

"oh boy... what's kye up to now?

big brothers always get to have all the fun..."

and we're off...

"why does kye get to ditch the family picture,

but i'm still stuck with mommy and daddy?"

"this lizard doesn't taste half bad..."

"HELP.... i'm being attacked by my pet lizard!"

"this transformer blanket works well as a sarong...

and if i just happen to fall down while trying to run in it

i can just close my eyes and i'm ready for bed..."

"i love christmas wrapping paper..."

this is the gift from grandma and grandpa that caused kye to no long be interested in any other presents. this is also the gift that made mommy and daddy hate "the muffin man" song. he got to play it as much as he wanted the first day, but funny thing was the batteries disappeared from it the next morning... must have been the "annoyance police"...