What's better than cousins? Matching cousins!
Snuggles with my little Luke.
This picture that my brother took cracked me up. I'm assuming it's from a singalong.
Joey got a new Pokemon video game for Christmas, and the Gallo kids were almost as excited as Joey was about his new game. We got Lauren a little stuffed Pokemon for Christmas. It came with a clip on it to attach it to a backpack. Lauren had "Chimchar" clipped to her clothes for the rest of their trip.
Reading with Hannah.
One night the adults were playing games downstairs at our house, so the kids went up to the master bedroom and watched, The Star, our favorite Christmas movie.
Ben, Lauren and Nathan slept over at our house one more night after Christmas. In the morning, Nathan wanted to sit up on the counter while I was making my usual quart of tea. He wanted some, so I got him a little plastic teacup from our kitchen.
I didn't think he'd actually drink much of the tea, but he sat on the counter for over an hour while I constantly poured him tea about an inch at a time. The two of us polished off the whole quart. It was one of my favorite memories from the Gallos' trip. It reminded me of when Luke was about that same age, and we had tea time together in Carmel.
The last full day of the Gallos' visit was Ellie's birthday. She's now officially in the double digits! We took Ellie out to lunch at Chick-fil-A, and then headed over to my parents' house.
James was born on April 28th, so these two were exactly 10 and 8 months old on December 28th.
The Meisters and Andy's parents all came over for Ellie's birthday dinner. Ellie gets most of her birthday presents in June for her half birthday, but she had a few to open which was fun.
My mom made an eggnog cake for Ellie and Hannah used her new cake decorating supplies to make a chocolate Oreo cake for her. Both cakes were delicious!
We were soaking up all of the Gallo snuggles that we could.
My parents gave all of the kids sparklers for Christmas. It was a fun way to end Ellie's birthday and the Gallo's visit.
The next day my dad and I drove the Gallos to the airport. Then I came back and hung out with my parents and Timmy and Jill for a while. Timmy and Jill were headed down to San Diego to hang out with some friends, and then they were leaving at an obscene time the next morning because they wanted to drive back to Denver in one day. Thankfully everyone made it home safe and sound!
There's Treasure Everywhere
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