Here's another little video of our Christmas break....
Christmas 2010 take 2
Tuesday, December 28, 2010
Monday, December 27, 2010
Christmas visit
Christmas was a fun at the Messina house! My brother, Craig and his wife, Mayra and their 5 month old son, Alex, came from Houston. It was so wonderful to have family here for Christmas and also to meet my youngest nephew! We had a white Christmas and it was good just to sit around and talk and get to catch up again.
Lily is having fun with her new Leapster (she is no longer allowed to bug her biggest brother to play games on his iPod Touch!) She also received a lot of arts and crafts projects and materials. She is quite the little artist and can be found drawing pictures everyday at one of our tables. She drew pictures for everyone for Christmas and put them under the tree. Aunt Mayra had a picture of her holding baby Alex. Uncle Craig got a drawing of a motorcycle (complete with flames on the tank). Tim got a very impressive drawing of him playing basketball. (He couldn't believe she drew it on her own....I had to remind him that she HAS spent a great deal of time in the stands at basketball games over the past few years!) Joe's looked kind of abstract....a whole bunch of colored rectangles. Joe was looking a little disappointed after seeing Tim's drawing and asked Lily what it was....she told him it was "lots of sticks of gum!" She wanted to draw something that he likes! We all got a good laugh over that. :o)
Rich made everyone sing "Happy Birthday" to me on Christmas morning. No, it wasn't my birthday, but my birthday is in February and it's the big 4-0. There's a 99% chance he will be deployed, so I got a fabulous Christmas/40th birthday gift of a digital SLR camera and telephoto lens. I am excited to try it at the boys' basketball tournaments this week. It took some pretty good pictures around the house! Alex was patient with me as I clicked away. :o)
Rich is so proud of all the countries we have been to in all our travels. I got him a stand and a miniature flag from each country he has been to so far. It was quite a few!
Tim enjoyed getting anything having to do with basketball. Always exercising, he also got some equipment that kept him busy that afternoon! Tim also got a few hoodies to keep him warm through the Nebraska winter.
Joe also got a few hoodies to wear along with some items for his car. His front driver's seat now sports a Tweetie bird seat cover. :o) Thanks to Uncle Craig, he now has an emergency safety kit for the trunk and I got him some much needed new windshield wipers. :o)
We had a wonderful Christmas and now that Craig and his family are safely back home, we are cleaning up and getting ready for my parents to arrive on Wednesday. We'll celebrate Christmas with them and then get ready for Lily's birthday party. She's going to have two parties...one with family around her birthday and then one at the end of January with her friends. (We like to throw Chinese New Year birthday parties for Lily) Her friends are back from their holiday trips by then.
Enjoy the pictures!
It's Santa! I always imagined he'd be a bit bigger...and hairier!
Alex
Cousins - Joe, Tim, Lily and cousin, Alex
Cyndi and Lily
Mayra and Alex
Cyndi, her baby brother, Craig, and his baby, Alex
Craig, Mayra and Alex
Lily is having fun with her new Leapster (she is no longer allowed to bug her biggest brother to play games on his iPod Touch!) She also received a lot of arts and crafts projects and materials. She is quite the little artist and can be found drawing pictures everyday at one of our tables. She drew pictures for everyone for Christmas and put them under the tree. Aunt Mayra had a picture of her holding baby Alex. Uncle Craig got a drawing of a motorcycle (complete with flames on the tank). Tim got a very impressive drawing of him playing basketball. (He couldn't believe she drew it on her own....I had to remind him that she HAS spent a great deal of time in the stands at basketball games over the past few years!) Joe's looked kind of abstract....a whole bunch of colored rectangles. Joe was looking a little disappointed after seeing Tim's drawing and asked Lily what it was....she told him it was "lots of sticks of gum!" She wanted to draw something that he likes! We all got a good laugh over that. :o)
Rich made everyone sing "Happy Birthday" to me on Christmas morning. No, it wasn't my birthday, but my birthday is in February and it's the big 4-0. There's a 99% chance he will be deployed, so I got a fabulous Christmas/40th birthday gift of a digital SLR camera and telephoto lens. I am excited to try it at the boys' basketball tournaments this week. It took some pretty good pictures around the house! Alex was patient with me as I clicked away. :o)
Rich is so proud of all the countries we have been to in all our travels. I got him a stand and a miniature flag from each country he has been to so far. It was quite a few!
Tim enjoyed getting anything having to do with basketball. Always exercising, he also got some equipment that kept him busy that afternoon! Tim also got a few hoodies to keep him warm through the Nebraska winter.
Joe also got a few hoodies to wear along with some items for his car. His front driver's seat now sports a Tweetie bird seat cover. :o) Thanks to Uncle Craig, he now has an emergency safety kit for the trunk and I got him some much needed new windshield wipers. :o)
We had a wonderful Christmas and now that Craig and his family are safely back home, we are cleaning up and getting ready for my parents to arrive on Wednesday. We'll celebrate Christmas with them and then get ready for Lily's birthday party. She's going to have two parties...one with family around her birthday and then one at the end of January with her friends. (We like to throw Chinese New Year birthday parties for Lily) Her friends are back from their holiday trips by then.
Enjoy the pictures!
It's Santa! I always imagined he'd be a bit bigger...and hairier!
Alex
Cousins - Joe, Tim, Lily and cousin, Alex
Cyndi and Lily
Mayra and Alex
Cyndi, her baby brother, Craig, and his baby, Alex
Craig, Mayra and Alex
Christmas photos
Alex
Alex and Mayra, his mommy. His whole face lights up when she talks to him.
Craig, Mayra and Alex in Council Bluffs, IA at the go-kart racing place.
Alex and Craig, his proud daddy
Kisses for Auntie Cyndi!
Mayra and Alex are a bit bundled up! Nebraska is a bit colder than Houston!
What a ladies' man!
Tim and Alex get acquainted
Chomp! Alex got ahold of Joe!
Mr. Smiley!
Lily in her Christmas sweater from her Godmother, Judi, and her Christmas party antlers....
Joe gets some time with Alex.
My baby brother, Craig, and his son, Alex (5 mos)
Merry Christmas 2010!
We had a wonderful Christmas! First Rich's brother, Joe, came for a few days during the middle of December. He's being deployed to Kuwait/Iraq in early 2011, so it was nice to get to see him before he leaves. Rich actually left with him and they went to Las Vegas for a few days.
My brother, Craig, and his wife Mayra and son, Alex came in from Houston on Dec 22nd and stayed until the 26th. It was so fascinating to see my baby brother as a father. Mayra is a great mom and Alex just charmed everyone...okay, perhaps not at 2 in the morning, but he sure is cute! My parents are due in on the 29th and will stay a few days. It is so wonderful to see everyone and not have to fly 12+ hours in order to see them!
Tim, Lily and Joe with their newest cousin, Alex! He turned 5 months old on Christmas Day and had everyone smiling!
The Messina clan during their first Christmas in Nebraska!
Tim (14), Lily (10 days shy of being 6) and Joe (16)
My brother, Craig, and his wife Mayra and son, Alex came in from Houston on Dec 22nd and stayed until the 26th. It was so fascinating to see my baby brother as a father. Mayra is a great mom and Alex just charmed everyone...okay, perhaps not at 2 in the morning, but he sure is cute! My parents are due in on the 29th and will stay a few days. It is so wonderful to see everyone and not have to fly 12+ hours in order to see them!
Tim, Lily and Joe with their newest cousin, Alex! He turned 5 months old on Christmas Day and had everyone smiling!
The Messina clan during their first Christmas in Nebraska!
Tim (14), Lily (10 days shy of being 6) and Joe (16)
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