We had a good but quick Christmas morning. We had to fit in our present opening around Shawn's work/sleep schedule. So we had about two hours after he got home from work until he couldn't take it anymore and had to get some sleep. But even though our morning was quick, we had a good time. While Shawn was sleeping Carly was hardly off in her room or the family room trying out all her new things. Isaac was pretty much at my feet all day (until naptime) or trying to destroy things. And in case you're wondering, Isaac lost interest pretty quickly during our gift opening. I think his 2nd or 3rd gift was a book, and after that he just walked over to our church bag and sat down to read all the books in it. He did come back into the action and try to destroy things after he got tired of the books--5 or 6 minutes later.
The tree before the storm
For Christmas dinner, we had a feast at our friends', the Paden's, house. It was a wonderful meal with great friends. Unfortunately, I forgot my camera. I was too concerned with getting all our food, gifts and children out the door.
For Christmas Eve we continued our tradition of having Japanese food for dinner. We dined on tonkatsu (fried pork cutlet), rice and miso soup. It was delicious. It really brings back memories for Shawn and I. We thoroughly enjoyed living in Japan for 3 years, so it's nice to reminisce during Christmastime and think of the special people that we met .
Shawn drove out to the glacier after work in the morning and took this beautiful picture
For Christmas dinner, we had a feast at our friends', the Paden's, house. It was a wonderful meal with great friends. Unfortunately, I forgot my camera. I was too concerned with getting all our food, gifts and children out the door.
3 comments:
You should have us over for dinner and cook Japanese food! I would love to try it and I will even buy the ingredients. You just let me know what day would work for you. Andy is off work Wed for 1 week. Maybe then! Hopefully it would work out because. I would really love to spend an evening with your family.
Awesome! I am so glad you guys are sharing Japan with the kids! Are you teaching them any Japanese? Code words? or hiragana? katakana?
Lj
We're getting a little more serious about teaching Carly Japanese (speaking and listening), but we haven't done anything with reading or writing. And of course, Isaac doesn't even say much in English. But he knows what chotto matte means. We're trying to teach him to say dakko. We'll see.
And Vaughn's, dinner sounds great. We'll work out the details.
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