Lazzara Life

Monday 12.21.09

Today we went over to Tina, Oscar & Lily’s house (Lola & Sam reside there too!) to have our gift exchange, hot chocolate & cookies while watching a Christmas movie day… The day started off SO good, everyone was getting along, having good attitudes and then it all fell apart… Luckily we ended on a good note, but there was a time in the middle that was miserable!! Three girls are certainly a challenge on some days!!

Happy times taking pictures with the doggies….

Okay, so before “gift time”, Mommy would like a nice picture of all 3 girls in front of the tree… so far so good.

Then Avery gets a little silly… Haley gets a little annoyed, but still half smiles.

then Avery gets very silly & Haley is super annoyed, then stomps off.

We sometimes have trouble with little sisters who like a lot of attention, because it takes the attention off of certain other girls. This does not always go over well. So we try to compose ourself during gift opening time & end up having to go sit on the other side of the room because of our attitude. I’m not pointing any fingers, but there is a very particular girl who this happens to every so often…

After gift time, we made hot chocolate with mini marshmallows. Tina thought it would be hilarious to fix Avery up with some marshmallows.

By the way, Lily was napping this whole time. Now that she’s up, Tina read all the girls a really funny elf story and Lily turned the pages. Lily missed all of the action, by the time she got up, the attitudes were back to normal & we enjoyed the rest of our time together… peacefully.

Oh my goodness, my friend Susan makes the CUTEST kids clothes (among other things) and I ordered this dress for Lily!!!

And, it’s reversible!!!!

Here’s her website http://thatstoocute.info/

Tina & I always take our “in front of the tree” photo together & this was the best one out of the 35 we had Haley take.

Well, tomorrow we will be doing our Christmas morning food shopping with my mom & shopping for some things we need for our trip, OH, BY THE WAY, we will be in Boone North Carolina for a few days during break and hopefully we will see some snow! Have a great week!

Well, it appears that I can only blog after a weekend. We had a busy week with the girls’ last week of school, with “holiday” CHRISTMAS parties,and all the other fun stuff that goes along with being out of school for 2 WEEKS! We also helped Granny & Wello finally decorate their tree, made Christmas cookies with Great Grandma Lazzara, Mimi, Aunt Gina and our cousins… We had our family Christmas party at Jennifer & Mike’s and then Rich & I had our Christmas Bowling party with the 9th and 10th graders from the Youth Group… Busy Busy, just like we always are!!

Here are a few pictures from when we helped Granny decorate her tree this Friday. All of the kids helped decorate and Harley and I supervised.

Saturday morning we went over to cousin Marie’s house to make Christmas cookies with her, her 2 children, Catherine & baby John, Aunt Gina, Great Grandma Lazzara, Mimi, Ally & Ava. They made their cookies, decorated them & played.
Here’s Aunt Gina helping Cat & Haley…

Here’s Mimi helping Avery & avery just eating the icing… there’s Great Grandma sitting at the table, she just had fun watching all the little girls bake & decorate. It’s a family tradition…

Here is Lorin with her cookies…

And Haley with hers…

Saturday night we went to our annual family Christmas party at cousin Jennifer & Mike’s home. We have THE BEST southern home cooking there! We had a wonderful time catching up with family & enjoying our time together. Here is me with my “boyfriend” Kaden.

Jennifer & Mike got a new kitten, who was the center of attention for the kids, her name is Olive & she is just precious!!!

Haley had a great time talking with her beloved Janie. Janie says she takes the best pictures when she’s with her “Haley girl”… I agree!

I didn’t take very many pictures, but I did however take one, my new favorite of Christian.

Christmas time is such a wonderful time of celebrating the birth of our savior and also a time where we can spend with our family, it’s the best! Be Merry!