More Christmas Pics

Caitlin, Jocelyn, and Bridget

Jocelyn LOVES to hold Baby Nora
Nora is the most content baby ever...even after all of the cousins take her toys away from her!

Jon and his girls

Damian and Caitlin

Christmas Festivities

Parties with the Humfeld family always include a good amount of game time.

Cousinly love! The best part about this picture is the following: Genevieve is 3. Mikayla is 5. Need I say more? :)

My dad is like a kid going through a stage of having a hard time smiling naturally for the camera. So here, we had to make him laugh to catch a good smile. Sshh, don't tell him our secret!

Humfeld cousins (minus Macrina)

You would cry too if your mommy wouldn't let you have any more chocolate!

She takes this whole "get cozy while you read" thing very seriously.

Jocelyn loves her "Share Bear replacement." It comes in the form of a monkey.

She is having a heart to heart with her monkey

Notice the thumb? And the carrot still in grasp?

One of the only "healthy" meals in 5 days! (Wait, I take that back. The day after Christmas, they had mushrooms for a morning snack.)

Reading stories at Christmas in the dead of night.

One of Jocelyn's favorite things: Going high in the sky with daddy!

Grandma and Grandpa McCoy

Sporting her new hat and scarf courtesy of Great Grandma McCoy

Grandma and Grandpa got the girls some hooded bath towels. They were a hit at home...even when it wasn't bath time.

Grandpa had fun too!

Christmas Day Twinsies

We finally got a chance to play in the snow. Genevieve is wearing her new gear that she will use when daddy takes her skiing for the first time this year. She is very excited to ski with him! (Jocelyn just gets the old hand-me downs.)

Learning how to make snow angels...in an inch of snow. Hey it works!

Hot Chocolate?

When I informed the girls today that we were going to do something very special tonight, I didn't get the response I was thinking I would get.

Sam and I are going to start a family tradition during the Christmas Season of bundling the girls up one night, taking them to Starbucks to get a hot chocolate and then head to the live drive-through nativity seen as well as drive around Yakima to look at Christmas lights.

So after descibing in detail what our evening was going to consist of, Jenna replied, "Um mom, I don't want hot chocolate. I would rather have Root Beer."

Now does that seem very "Christmas-like?"

All Bundled up

Something Different

Today I picked Genevieve up from Preschool and the following conversation too place:

Me: How was school today?
G: Good! We did something different today.
Me: Oh really, what did you do that was different?
G: Well, we went up some stairs, and then we walked on a sidewalk, and it was black!
Me (thoroughly confused): You walked on a black sidewalk?
G: Yep!
Me: And what did you do while you walked on the black sidewalk?
G: Um, we sang "Jingle Bells and We Wish You A Merry Christmas."
Me (now it started to click): Was the black sidewalk called a "stage?"
G: Yep, we walked on a stage!
Me: Were you practicing for your Christmas Program?
G: Yeah!

One other Funny Genevieve-ism happened when I took a bite of her tuna fish sandwich the other day to which she cried:
"Now I can't eat my sandwich because it has YOUR germs on it!"

Can you feel the love?

Christmas Party

For my work's Christmas Party this year, Dr. Brown (my boss) planned a Murder/Mystery themed party at his house. We found out about it a few weeks ago, and have had time to get to know our character, that no one else knows about, and to put our costume together.

The party takes place on a cruise ship. We (both passengers and crew) are all at the Captain's Cocktail party when a murder takes place. There are many side issues going on that cause everyone to blame each other. At the end of the night we had to try and figure out who the killer was.

I was one of 3 final beauty pageants, trying to win the title of Ambassadress.
Sam was the Head Barman, known as Tom Collins, and was actually my husband on the ship although NO ONE knew this since my romantic involvement with him would eliminate me from the competition due to the pageant rules. There was one person however, that knew I was married, but was using that information as black male.

We had 16 players (8 staff and their spouses.)

We each had a sheet of paper that had our objectives on it. After everyone seemed to have taken care of their objectives, the lights went out mysteriously, there was a scream, and when the lights came back on, the "Showgirl" was found dead on the floor. (Good acting by the way Mandi!)

We had a lot of fun the whole night acting like people we weren't and would never plan on being!

Genevieve and I before we left:

Sam and I with Frank and Mandi. Mandi was the Showgirl and Frank was the Cruise's Purser

Joia is one of the other pageant girls

Katrina, the 3rd pageant contestant with her husband Andy, a passenger on the ship

Andy, Dr. Brown, and Sam

Doc Brown (AKA Maverick from Top Gun)

Rachle, another passenger, with Mandi

Sam mingling with Josh, the Cruise Director

At the end of the night, the truth came out that I, "Kristy Marie" was indeed the killer. I had to kill the showgirl since she knew of my marriage to Tom Collins, and I couldn't afford for anyone to find out, or I would be eliminated from the Beauty Pageant. I mean come on, can you blame me? :)

Sickness

Went to the doctor today. Influenza is negative which we are very thankful for. Sickness of some sort however is most definitely a positive. This picture is taken mid-morning. Haven't even had lunch yet. This is a big dilemma. Do I wake them up, feed them, and put them in their beds, or just let them be?