I hope everyone has had a wonderful Christmas! We had a pretty busy week!! I need to start by saying that the Ashihara family is very lucky to have such loving friends and family. Everyone was so generous and we can’t thank you all enough!!!
It all started Wednesday when we packed the car up and headed for CT. The truck was OVER packed!!! We had so much stuff! I kept trying to convince Ichiro that this was just going to be like this for the trip down. But deep down I knew (and I think he knew) it would be like this on the way back too! There was so much gifts that you couldn’t see out the back window, so much stuff you couldn’t see Inu in his cage! I kept asking Ichiro if he thought Inu could breathe.
After unpacking at my moms, we ate some YUMMY YUMMY Chicken Linguine that mom so smartly prepared before hand. This meal ALWAYS tastes awesome reheat!! I think the flavors soak into the pasta or something!! hahaha ANYWAY! We got ready for church and headed out. Noby did pretty good at church but you could tell he was ready to head to the Blackburns!!!
Like always, we had a fabulous time at the Blackburns! Great company, great food and great drinks!! The gift exchange this year was a hit and I think everyone was so excited with what they got!!
Christmas day was perfect, it was very relaxing and we just went with the flow of how the day progressed. This year Mom let us get up on our own, there was no bell ringing and no load music. I think she knew Noby wasn’t going to let us sleep in very late. When we were all up, we started with the stockings, one of my favorite parts of the morning. We then took a break to have some monkey bread and mimosas before starting on the gifts under the tree!
It felt like we were opening gifts all day!!! So much so that while we were cleaning up all the paper we saw that our first set of company was pulling in the drive way!!! We all made a mad rush to get dressed!! It was so great to see Aunt Sherry and Uncle Ronnie, also to be able to hang out with Kevan and Heather, who were up from NC.
After they left we thought we would take Noby outside to try out his new sled…
The next picture is one that I think is just so cute. Noby LOVES my mom’s Time Out bench. Here he is hanging out on it while he watches a movie.
For the past several years, our family friends the Martzs would come over in the evening. We always have a great time hanging out! Here are the kids (well the girls) form the night! Sorry Shane and Ichiro, we didn’t get any pictures of you!
Friday we headed to Manchester to visit with Pepere at his house. We aren’t going to be able to make the Ouellette family Christmas party so we thought this would be a great time to see him. Grandma was going to meet us there so we could all get to see each other. It was a great time visiting!
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