Clark demboski Pearce Christmas

A few days before Christmas, we celebrated at the Pearce's home. We had a yummy dinner and of course opened up gifts. The kids played so hard and had so much fun. Christian, Rebekah, Fletcher and Paige were such good cousins and shared their toys nicely and Andrew and Allison were so excited to play with all of their cousins. My kids were obsessed with Paige, they both wanted to hold her and give her kisses. It just makes me that much more excited about having Ashley. My parents were in Heaven having all of their "bugs" in one room for them to photograph non-stop. I think about 300 pictures were taken that day.
As most people know, each of the cousins have a bug name. They are as follows...

Christian is Bug-a-boo

Andrew is doodlebug

Rebekah is lady bug
Allison is love bug

Fletcher is Snuggle bug

Paige is lightning bug

Ashley is jitter bug

demboski Family Christmas Party

These are some photos from the annual demboski Christmas party. It was a smaller crowd this year, which made it extra fun I thought. There was delicious food, Santa and the wacky gift exchange. The kids had a blast playing with their cousins, and the adults had fun in conversation. After the party ended, the family went around in a circle and said what some of our happiest moments in life were or our most frightening moments. It sparked up a lot of laughter an great memories. Thanks Katie for the wonderful idea!



The above pictures are the many faces of my Allison Nichoal. She is a goofball, sweet heart, rebel, angel and so much fun!

36 weeks pregnant!!!!

The day after the big party, we went back over to Paul's parent's house to do our big gift exchange. We draw names every year to avoid having to buy 12 gifts each, plus the cousins, I think we would all have to take out a second mortgage on our home to pay for that. We all opened gifts and had a yummy breakfast. It is safe to say that Andrew's favorite gift was the pirate ship aka "pirates of the care-a-bean ship" that Uncle dude and Aunt Becky got him and Allison's favorite was her coffee pot, mixer, and toaster that Aunt Buny and Uncle Doug got her.

I received a blender for my gift and Paul got a board game (go figure).

After some play time, we busted out our ginger bread houses that we brought over. It seems to be an unofficial tradition for Paul and I to host a gingerbread house party each Christmas. This year we thought we would bring it on over to the after party. Everyone did a great job and got into it. It was a little unfair though because some of the houses were prebuilt and the others had to be constructed. We gave the prebuilt ones to families with little kids and to Grandma and Papa (we thought we would take it easy on them :) ).

It seems that we have the most fun when we all let our hair down and hang out in our jammies and just play together as a family.

All I want for Christmas is a FAT lip :(

Poor Allison nearly knocked out her two front teeth today! She was running (go figure) downstairs towards the fireplace where Paul was sitting when she fell and missed the edge of the fireplace but slid her mouth along the fireplace wall made of brick. Paul instantly picked her up and yelled for some ice. There was so much blood that I thought we would have to go to the ER. Thankfully it just swelled like crazy. Allison cried so hard on daddy's shoulder that she fell asleep. I can't believe how big her poor little lip got! She slept for over an hour, Paul managed to play some video games with Andrew while she slept and I worked on my blog. It was a relaxing and restful day.