.: Christmas with family

Tuesday, January 29, 2013

Christmas with family

Christmas 2012

We love spending time with family especially around the holidays. Dave's family came for Christmas and we had a great time with them. Here are some highlights...

Singing Christmas carols around the piano

Acting out the Nativity

Reading Twas the night before Christmas right

before the kids went to bed.

Opening presents

Feeding the birds

Face Mask, nail polish and braiding hair nights. Christa taught us all how to do the waterfall braid. (hopefully my in-laws will not kill me for putting this on here!! :) I think it is funny!!) That mask burned my face.

After face mask shot...look at our radiant skin! :) haha

Christa braiding Ashlyn's hair

We curled each others hair with Christa's new

super sweet curling iron. (I look like a dork in this picture, but who cares) I do love the wavy curls.

Sledding

Roasting marshmallows and drinking hot chocolate and apple cider

Building a Fort

Over 500 nativities at the Kirtland Historic site

Ashlyn dressing up as Mary/wise man :)

More pictures at the nativities

The Cleveland Art Museum--Gallery One. Such a COOL exhibit. Here, the kids would draw a picture on the screen and then the screen would pull up a piece of art that had the same image in it:

This is all new as well. It is a huge screen that pulls up pictures of every piece of art in the museum. You can click on the picture, upload it to your IPad and then it gives you more information about it and where to locate it in the museum.

Bamboo shoots at the Cleveland Art Museum

Going to see the movie Les Miserables with the girls.

Cue the ugly cry (seriously) I'm so glad the theater stayed dark for 5 minutes after the movie ended. I cried throughout the entire movie.

Funny story--in the middle of one of the tragic parts of the movie, a guy sitting a couple rows behind me started busting up laughing. All the women in the room turned to look at him in shock (how could he possibly be so cruel as to laugh at that part?!). It turns out he was laughing at his wife, who was also bawling her eyes out.

Dinner at Dewey's pizza

Making the famous apple strudel. I have been wanting to do this for SO LONG. Dave's dad has a secret recipe from his mom who grew up in Austria. It was really good and fun to make.

Stretching the dough

layering the dough with apple slices and cinnamon and sugar

Trimming the edges

Rolling it

Wala!

Tasty goodness

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"Winning is not a sometime thing; it's an all the time thing. You don't win once in a while; you don't do things right once in a while; you do them right all the time. Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.

"There is no room for second place. There is only one place in my game, and that's first place. I have finished second twice in my time at Green Bay, and I don't ever want to finish second again. There is a second place bowl game, but it is a game for losers played by losers. It is and always has been an American zeal to be first in anything we do, and to win, and to win, and to win.

"Every time a football player goes to ply his trade he's got to play from the ground up - from the soles of his feet right up to his head. Every inch of him has to play. Some guys play with their heads. That's O.K. You've got to be smart to be number one in any business. But more importantly, you've got to play with your heart, with every fiber of your body. If you're lucky enough to find a guy with a lot of head and a lot of heart, he's never going to come off the field second.

"Running a football team is no different than running any other kind of organization - an army, a political party or a business. The principles are the same. The object is to win - to beat the other guy. Maybe that sounds hard or cruel. I don't think it is.

"It is a reality of life that men are competitive and the most competitive games draw the most competitive men. That's why they are there - to compete. To know the rules and objectives when they get in the game. The object is to win fairly, squarely, by the rules - but to win.

"And in truth, I've never known a man worth his salt who in the long run, deep down in his heart, didn't appreciate the grind, the discipline. There is something in good men that really yearns for discipline and the harsh reality of head to head combat.

"I don't say these things because I believe in the 'brute' nature of man or that men must be brutalized to be combative. I believe in God, and I believe in human decency. But I firmly believe that any man's finest hour - his greatest fulfillment to all he holds dear - is that moment when he has to work his heart out in a good cause and he's exhausted on the field of battle - victorious."

--Vince Lombardi

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Tuesday, January 29, 2013