Happy Holidays!

We wanted to have a big holiday party with all our friends this year, and Steve came up with the name "Merry Drinksmas!"  Here are a ton of pics of some of our buddies who came to celebrate with us.  We had about 30 people over, and everyone had a great time.  I think everyone was ready to blow off a little holiday steam with some great food, yummy drinks and most of all, fantastic friends!

Kristen, Charline and Andy
Jenn and Nick
Justin and Troy
Lindsay, Mary, JD and Tim arrive!
CK and Me!
Matt and Christina Scholbrock -- Christina teaches 5th grade at GP.  This was their first experience at the Marsh house!
JD, Mary and Lindsay
King-a-ling-a-ding-dong
IS Sterne and me!
Jenn and CK
Julie and Troy Evans -- they're Ty and Tanner's parents...first time we got to hang out with them without the kiddos running amok!
Steve and I NEVER get pictures of just the two of us whenever we're all hanging out...so I made sure we got one taken, finally!
The Kings!
Lisa, Christina and Kristen
Steve and Terrance.  Terrance works with Steve at S-II.  We called him the Black version of Steve because he's just a big teddy bear and has a very similar personality as Steve!
This is the infamous Christmas sweater.  Kathie sewed on all the stuffed animals and jingle bells.  Steve wore it to his company Christmas party, and it made another appearance at Drinksmas!  As Mary said, "That's aggressive!"  Possibly my favorite quote from the night.
Too sexy for his shades.
Cute!
Crazy!
JD and Me!  Doesn't he kinda look like Woody Harrelson?
Mary and me!

Below are the pictures I stole from Charline's blog.  It's ok, she stole mine too!  We share!
This is the funniest picture taken all night!
Laura and CK
Justin and Tim, two super handy firefighters!
Wow...what a trio!
Zach, we're glad you rallied!!

Well, another great year of friends!

My Cute Boys!

Just some recent pics of my two sweet babies!  They are so awesome!

Last weekend was pretty cool.

At Charline's house, Lindsay and I spent some time baking and making ornaments for the staff holiday party!  It was great, and we learned that Sculpey is totally addicting.  I had already discovered this when making necklaces, but ornaments are also awesome!  A grown up version of playing with Play Doh!

After the baking and making, we headed over to our principal's house for a little holiday gathering.  Beau's specialty was Peppermint Martinis.  A little strong for me, but Charline sure did like them! I stuck with the champagne punch, delicious!  



HAHA!  An attempt at a self portrait of three!

The holidays are so much fun!  It's my most favorite time of the year!

Family Festival at Bright Horizons

Last Friday night was the much-awaited Family Festival Night at Bright Horizons.  Every December the school has a big shindig where each of the classes performs songs, Santa visits, and crafts and snacks are set up for the kids, big and small!  It's always such a fun, cute night.  The teachers are so creative, and the kids have a blast!

This year, I had a brush with insanity wherein I volunteered to sew 37 fleece hats and scarves for Riley's class, which they needed for the performance.  It was actually pretty fun, and they turned out ADORABLY!  Riley LOVES his, and several parents have said that over the weekend their kids wore their hats and scarves to play in the snow!  Yay me!

Here is Mr. Carter, waiting for big brother's performance.  Gotta love it when babies are born right before Christmas...they get all the fun "First Christmas" gear!  I don't think he could have looked any cuter, though!
Check out the butt!
Owen came with Grandma and Bubba to watch Riley's show.
Hats and scarves!  So cute!
Riley, hamming it up as usual!  I'm so glad he's not shy like I was!
He took his performing very seriously.
This is the song "Pack up the Sleigh."  Riley had to bring "Something Red that has four wheels!"  He brought a little red wagon that a flower arrangement had come in when he was born.  He was the one who actually remembered that it was in his room.  
Here's one of our twin buddies!  I couldn't get all three of them in one pic, they had them all spread out across the stage.
This was S-A-N-T-A, sung to the tune of "BINGO"  Blogger was being temperamental, I'll try to get the video posted soon!

Fun stuff

Mom's 60th Birthday party

Last weekend we threw a birthday party for my mom's 60th birthday. Her birthday isn't actually until the 28th, but with the hustle and bustle of Christmas, we wanted to do the celebration early!

Mom knew about the party, but she didn't know that we had invited the family from San Francisco. We were so excited to have Aunt Faye come out to represent the family! Boy was mom surprised! So surprised that when she went to answer the door when Aunt Faye rang, she shrieked and slammed the door in Auntie's face!

She was so excited, though, and it was a fantastic weekend! In addition to the party, we were able to take Aunt Faye to the Garden of the Gods and up to Quarters One!

Enjoy the slide show!

Make a Smilebox slideshow

Good News!

We had some good news today.  Little Gavin was released from the hospital and is at home with the rest of his family tonight.  He's still recovering, but doing great.  He's expected to have a completely normal life, thanks to the amazing docs at Children's Hospital!  Thanks for all the thoughts and prayers for our little guy!