When I say Happy Holidays I mean for all three of the big ones that have happened since I have last blogged...oops! I guess I was just having too much fun to get a chance to write! Not too worry, I am here now! ;)
Starting off with Thanksgiving, we had a great time with our Italian family (really everyone is American) minus Gini and Louis, they were home celebrating with their family. We all got together and had a great meal that everyone helped with...but Ro gets all the credit for the turkey and it was delicious! Tony and I felt, once again, that we had a lot to be thankful for as we were thinking about him still having a job playing basketball, our healthy loving family back home, and our new niece Camryn. Thank you Jesus for another year of blessings!
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| Our Thanksgiving day treat (since the boys were on a road trip on the actual day)! |
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| Sweet Karina...her 1st Thanksgiving. |
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| Ro is a PRO ;) |
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| Love this girl! |
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| We ate well...really well. |
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| It's me...oh wait no just the real thing. (If you don't know "Turkey" is my nickname from my niece Gwenny...we don't know why) |
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| The boys looking nice for Thanksgiving. Tony's team headed out for a looong road trip after that and I got ready for home. After being here three days alone I was ready to get home and I hit the ground running when I finally got there! I spent my time working, playing and trying to spend time with family and friends. It was a busy few weeks that is for sure...I am still catching up on lost sleep! The best part was that Tony surprised our families by coming home for about a week. Their team had a break in the schedule so we thought it would be nice for him to come home....and everyone was SO happy to see him. I think his Grandma jumped about two feet off the ground which was quite impressive. The 22nd was super special because around 2am at Seatac airport I met my new niece Camryn Carolina for the first time...and boy (or should I say girl) was she something!!! She is so incredibly cute and precious, I just couldn't get enough of her. What an incredible blessing to our family. Our whole family was together for one day and that is why we decided to wait to celebrate my Dad's 60th birthday until December, but it was worth it! It was a great time that was spent with our entire family (both sides) and special family friends!  
Brittinee's Surprise birthday party!
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Sister time!
Santa came to the store...missing the Hardersens in this one!
The time at home was so awesome and I just loved being with all of our family and friends!
We flew home on the 23rd but didn't arrive home until late Christmas Eve...we spent most of Christmas Eve in the Amsterdam airport and had a really romantic dinner at Burger King (ok not really). Not only was it gross it was about $20 for three things...good thing there was a Starbucks too ;)
On Christmas day we slept a lot, but were able to open a few presents in the morning and then have dinner at Drake and Gini's after the boys practice. Thank goodness for Gini planning and cooking the whole thing because we had no food at all (nothing is open here Christmas day). It was so nice to be able to spend Christmas with our friends...they make our life here so much better!
Lou's 2nd Christmas!
Merry Christmas!
Now for the last Holiday...New Year's Eve!!! We all went out to dinner, then to the center to light off our lantern with a wish...and then out late bringing in the new year!
Lou's new face at dinner..haha, so cute!
Happy New Year my love
Lighting our lantern...making a wish
All the lanterns...so pretty.
The girls!
Quick update on the team, they are still doing SO well and are currently in 2nd place in league. They unfortunately did not make it out of Eurocup so that is a big bummer. They clinched the Italian Cup which is next month and almost have clinched play-offs already! Way to go DINAMO!
Tony and I hope that 2013 brings everyone joy and many blessings!
