Move over Bob Wiley! Christmas '08 was awesome at the Harward's. Instead of stuff we opted for time and activities. Trish will add pictures I'm sure but here are the highlights for me:
Where: Rockport TX then home for more
When: Dec 22nd - Jan 3rd
Highlights:
- Homemade gift exchange on Christmas Eve
- Blake riding his new ripstick while shooting passing objects with his new airsoft gun
- Maddy catching her first TWO fish
- Ella and Cole hopping up and down in excitement Christmas morning
- Sword dueling with Cole and his new ninja sword
- Ella dragging her doll around with her puppy backpack on
- Winning the week-long Sorry tournament
- Sleeping in with Trish
- Launching fireworks over the ocean that shoot 150 feet up and are as big as my house
- Ella and Cole feeding an entire loaf of bread and several bagels to the family of ducks off the dock
- Pelicans dive bombing into the water off our back porch
Honorable mention activities:
- Christmas Eve/Day watching Christmas lights glisten on the water
- Fishing off the dock every night with my kids
- Shell collecting and swimming at the beach
- Flying remote control airplanes and shooting off rockets in the park with the boys
- Sleeping in
- Eating out
- Church at the tiny Branch in Rockport where a lesson on Elder Uchdorf's talk on hope somehow got twisted into a discussion of...animal flatulence. I kid you not. It was awesome.
- Homemade pizza night
- Trips to the USS Lexington WW2 Aircraft Carrier and Texas Aquarium
- Projector movies every night that filled the whole wall.
Result: Closer friendships among siblings, parents/kids, spouses. Memories to last a lifetime.
Capping Moment: Blake saying, "this was the best Christmas we've ever had".
I agree. I will remember this forever. Here's to Christmas and family and memories.
6 comments:
OOOOHHHHHHHHHH! I am so jealous!
What a wonderful vacation!
animal flatulence huh? Seriously, the church is so true.
You totally made me laugh today.
And I got jealous. Thanks.
xoxoxo
Christmas with the Harwards is always the best Christmas, for me. It sounds like you had a dreamy vacation. After all that happened in November, it's well deserved. I'm so glad you had a great time!
Sounds awesome. Glad it was so great for you!
Wow - I'm thinking we need to go and rediscover Rockport again! Sounds like you had such a great time!
Dad, it was, SUCH an awesome vacation!! thanx for everything you did to make the vacation fun/
BUT I DID kick youlittle booty to kingdom come in SORRY!!
you just won't admit it.
i still won.
and you are SO jealous.
Love,
THE "SORRY" CHAMPION
(aka Maddy)
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