howard/skiver christmas

melanie and i met when we were both attending western way back in 1995. we were in the same english class with a super hot teacher and then eventually she moved in to the room across the hall from me in my dorm. melanie was in my wedding and i was in hers. we don't get to see each other nearly as often as we'd like, but she's still my bff and we try to get together about once a month...this year it WILL happen!
we have tried to get together for a howard/skiver christmas every year since the boys were born. many years it seems as if the odds are stacked against us and this year it happened again.
the day that we were supposed to get together we had a huge snow storm. and with the howard's living in fenton and having to make a 45 minutes drive to our place, it just didn't work out.
we ended up just letting the kids open their presents before the howard's headed home when they came over for hayden's birthday party. the kids didn't seem to mind and we'll be getting together with them soon to just hang out now that all of the holiday chaos is over.
when they were leaving, lorelei came to give talan a hug goodbye. we told him to give her a kiss and then he was hooked. we kept telling them to do it again so i could get a picture, and they both had no real problem obeying. when they weren't kissing, talan would stand there looking at her puckering his lips and making the kissy noise. lorelei is not an orphan, but i would not mind my boys marrying into that family.
thanks for the great gifts melanie, chadd, ashton and lorelei!!! we'll be seeing you soon!

opening presents again!:
lorelei and her ugly dolls:
talan's first wallet, complete with a tricycle drivers license:
ashton:
chadd and lorelei:
talan and one of his favorite gifts EVER:

back to the video games:
kissin' time: