Dallas

Here are our Christmas activities documented through pictures:

Our Christmas Eve program.  My grandpa brought his friend, Mr. Fuzzy.  Somehow my grandpa could make Mr. Fuzzy move on his own.  It looked freaky and I wasn’t the only one who thought so.  During the act, Brooke tried to get as far away from Mr. Fuzzy as possible and then said “Ew!” over and over again.

Christmas day.  We didn’t take many pictures, but Dallas has a great video of Brooke he’ll need to post.  She was a wild child all day.  Maybe it was the excitement of gifts.  Maybe it was the fact that she only ate Swedish Fish and Cocoa Puffs all day.  In any case, she provided lots of entertainment.  Her favorite gift was a box of diapers leading us to all wonder, “Why buy the toy when all kids want to play with is the box?”

My Dad was excited to cook prime rib.  He seasoned it with rock salt.  Lots and lots of rock salt.

Dallas enjoyed the prime rib.

Here I am losing at the game Set against my brother, Ben.  By the end of the week I almost beat him!  Ben, I declare a rematch!

A very quick recap of last year’s Christmas festivities in the Thomas house.

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Every year my mom’s side of the family gets together for a Halloween dinner.  Some of us get more into dressing up than others, as you will see, but we all have a great time nonetheless.

Without further ado–Halloween 2008!

Can you guess who we are?

No, Dallas is not a wall.  Here’s another pose in case you still don’t get it:

Get it now? He’s the yellow-brick road!  And yes, Brooke is a ballerina, but not just any ballerina.  She’s the ballerina munchkin.  Grandma Allen gave her the tutu and we had to put it to good use!

Here’s another look at the munchkin:

These next pictures are of my extended family so many of you will not know who they are.  Sorry.  Just enjoy the costumes.

This is the best picture we had of Sam and Kathy.  (Sam is the blue wizard.)

Andy and Amanda and family:

My grandpa (a devil) with Rachel:

My grandma (a witch):

Clint and Nani:

Bryce.  It may appear that he’s not in costume, but turns out, the day before he went to a store to get a game for his Wii.  At the store, the employees were all wearing black t-shirts and giving them away for free.  Bryce took one and used it to dress up as one of the employees of that store.

Those are all the pictures we took.  I just realized that we didn’t even take any of my parents.  Oops.

We had a fun Halloween!