Christmas time with Grandpa and Grandma Bauer was a blast. We had fun decorating and cleaning and making candies for the big Christmas Eve Party that we have every year.
Carsten's favorite thing to do when we visit Grandpa is to share a can of olives with him. And he loves showing Mommy the olives before they go into his mouth.
He also loves to put olives in Grandpa's mouth. "Here, Papa! Olive? Nummy! Nummy olive!"
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| Carsten loves to spend time with his cousin, Ashton. Ashton is exactly 9 months, to the day, older than Carsten. |
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| Ashton gave Carsten a present for Christmas. Should we see what it is? |
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| I think Carsten was more interested in the box, at the time, but he sure loves his new Fire Engine pajamas! |
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| Brian, I still can see yoooou!!!! You cannot hide behind the lamp, no matter how hard you try! |
People started to arrive and then the real fun began. In this picture, coming in the door is Uncle Brian Terry, Aunt Bonnie Terry, Shannon Terry Bludworth, her daughter, Kennedy Bludworth and Kennedy's friend, whose name escapes me at the moment. Go scatterbrained me!
Grandma Bauer is so excited to have everyone together for Christmas! The family is finally complete, now that Justin and Bonnie are married.
Carsten loves interacting with his cousins. He's telling Elijah Bludworth all about his sister, Mikaela and his brother, Skyler, and all about his new home in Arizona.
The youngest cousins had a fun time playing with a puzzle together in front of the fireplace while we waited for everyone to get there so we could get the party started.
We got to meet the newest member of our family, Henry Topham. (Although, he wasn't really new. He was about a year old in this picture.) He was very shy. But he was a sweet little cutie. He is the son of Katie and Scott Topham. Scott is the son of Bonnie's Aunt Phyllis and Uncle Dave.
Dun dun dun dun!!! Annie and Neil are visiting from rainy Seattle, Washington with their boys, Isaac and Boston. Neil used to play all kinds of jokes on Bonnie growing up, like hiding in her closet doing the Jumanji drums on her closet door while shining a flashlight underneath. They still get a good chuckle out of that.
Everybody seems to be tinkering with something. Ah, the day of technology.
Every family gathering has to have at least one picture of Scott taking a picture of someone taking a picture....did that even make sense?
Daddy is helping Carsten to sing Jingle Bells. Carsten just wanted to shake the bells the whole time.
Neil. Enough said. LOL.
Opening presents with Carsten was so fun. This year, he actually knew what he needed to do in order to get to the stuff inside.
Mommy and Daddy even got presents. And Carsten was being so helpful by handing them out.
Daddy got a cool game called Mille Bornes, which is one that he really likes.
The wonderful thing about our time together is that Justin is always making sure to let Bonnie know he loves her, even if it's simply holding her hand.
Carsten's favorite part of Christmas day was playing in the cool tunnels that Grandma and Grandpa gave him.
A peaceful family tradition. A fire in the fire place every Christmas. Brought to you by the men of the family.
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