King Cobra

For Christmas Jonah gave Micah a small toy rubber snake. The snake was about 12inches long. After soaking it in water for several days, it grew to be about 3 feet long. Here he is pretending it was a real snake. Jonah bought this gift for his brother, but I think he was thinking of himself when he bought it.

Swim Meet Jan 2009

Here is Micah at a swim meet, he swam well in this meet. Micah's best stroke is the 100 meters back stroke and does good on the 200 IM too.

Daddy and Jonah waiting for results.

New Year's Day 2009

We went over to the Bremer's for New Year's day. Here are Kathleen and Rick.

Here we are eating all the good ham, potatoe salad, and if you come from the south, you have to eat black eye peas and cabbage for good luck.

Jonah, Christian and Jordan playing the Wii and having fun.

Larry was coming down with a cold and Micah was sick with the cold and was running a fever. He had to skip swimming the next day because he was still not feeling good.

Claire, Jordan and Jonah having fun.

Christmas 2008

Jonah put the Lego nativity scene together on

Christmas Eve.

Jonah went shopping at the school's Christmas store. He bought everyone a gift, including a gift from Santa Claus for himself.

Jonah made this beautiful star for us. He was so excited telling that he had learned how to sew and only stuck himself twice.

Larry and the boys gave me this beautiful frame with some black and white pictures which we took when we went camping a few years ago. This was my favorite gift. It made me cry when I opened it.

Micah got WOW (World of Warcraft) for Christmas. He has been wanting to play online for quite a long time now.

WARNING!!!!!!! Do not give a rock tumbler to your kids for Christmas. It took three weeks to get the rocks cleaned and polished. It was so noisy, we had to put it in the garage. Jonah mounted one of the polished rocks in a necklace for me.

Jackie, Will and family came for Christmas dinner. The kids loved eating on their own tables in the living room.

Here are the adults eating around the table. We couldn't get a good picture, because Will kept pretending like he was eating when the picture was being taken. Micah's friend, Becca, came to help install the WOW software, and ate with us.

Here is a good picture of Jackie and Will at the dinner table.

The Lear family picture on Christmas Day.

Micah, Cassandra, Xiomara, Christian, and Jonah.

The Santiago family on Christmas Day.

Jonah's Class Christmas Party 2008

Here is Jonah with his 3rd grade teacher, Mrs. Machalec. The shirt he is wearing Micah made when he was in kindergarten (10 years ago). Jonah loved wearing it this year, because it finally fit him.

This is a picture of "Rudolph" and Amanda, She is not only a friend from school, but she is a friend from Church, also. They made Rudolph peanut butter sandwiches.