Wednesday, January 27, 2010

A Christmas recap....

Deacon and I spent from December 1st-January 10th in the good ole' U.S. of A. It was nice to be home. Jason came later because he had to stay in Japan for work. He arrived on the 19th of December. After two and a half weeks apart it was beyond wonderful to see him again!

Here's our time at home in pictures!

We spent a couple of weeks in my stomping grounds...Boyd, Tejas.
Deacon got to hang out a lot on this trip with his great-grandparents! Dee Dee and Papa Bill!


With Aunt Mary and his Santa suit his great-aunt Christy gave him.



Time back to the US wouldn't be complete without a visit to Lubbock to see the Lathams! We LOVE THEM A LOT! Too bad Papa Scott is missing from this picture.


We then went up to Nebraska to see all of Jason's family. In spite the three of us being sick for a majority of the week it was still a good trip. I wish we'd had more time there.

Deacon got to meet his cousin Marc for the 1st time at Christmas...well, all his cousins actually. Marc is 4 months older than Deacon.


All bundled up to brave the Nebraska cold!!


Kuiper Christmas Eve celebration. We read some scripture, sang some songs, and even had a snippet from Shakespeare preformed by my 8 year old nephew Braden.



Here is Braden preforming a monologue from Julius Caesar. My niece, Samantha is a dead Julius Caesar. Braden is Marc Antony


The Babies...Marcus and Deacon


All the grandkids.


Leaving Nebraska and saying good-bye to grandma and grandpa Kuiper very early in the morning.


After Nebraska we headed down to Florida for some not-so-warm weather. That was a bit of a bummer. However, it didn't stop us from having a good time at Disney World. We did 5 theme parks in 5 days!! Phew...we were worn out!

Family pic in the Magic Kingdom


The Kuip-RRRRs after Pirates of the Caribbean


Everyone needs a pair of mouse ears!


All tuckered out. Love his little feet sticking out from underneath the blankets.


Florida was great. Then, we went back to Texas to relax a bit before heading off to Japan again.

We got to spend some time with the Reeves and Deacon got to meet his new friend, Lily!!


We loved our time in the states and we are ready to move back. We will be making our final trip across the pacific in july. It will be here before we know it.

Getting "excited" for the long plane ride.


We were very blessed to get the bulk head seat where we could use the bassinet for Deacon. I think he liked being up high.


What a wonderful trip! The time went fast but we will be back in the US before we know it.

3 comments:

mary said...

In the last pic, Deak looks like such a big boy! It makes me smile and kinda sad that he's getting so big :) Love you!

Emileigh Latham said...

He is growing up so much! What a cutie.
I am glad the trip went really well.
Ya'll always look like ya'll are having fun wherever you go.

Love the Pirate pic by the way. Awesome.

Unknown said...

Oh my goodness, your little guy is getting so big. What a cutie. Can't wait to see you all again. Do you know where you'll be headed? Missouri? Texas? THanks for sharing such fun pictures. Good to have you back in the blogging link. :)