Styer Family Christmas Party

We celebrated Christmas with the Styer Family on December 17th. We arrived first and took a few pics of the babies with the Grandparents before everyone else arrived. Doesn't Harrison look like his Grandpa with their matching Santa hats?



Dave & Tisa (okay, mostly Tisa) prepared a beautiful meal. We were missing 2 of Spencer's siblings as Tom was in California for his annual trip to Disneyland and Kate lives in Washington. But Dave (Uncle Dude), Doug (Uncle Chopper), and Niki were there. The boys really love their uncles and aunts on both sides. Since we see my family more often, it seems that they get a little out of control when they see the Styer's...they're just so excited and can't keep it inside!

Dave has a lot of tattoos and Gavin was fascinated by them. He wanted to see and touch them. He kept saying that he wanted one. I was worried that it may be getting a bit annoying to Dave so I told him to grab a pen and draw a tattoo on Gavin's arm. My only stipulation was that it could be covered up by a t-shirt. So Dave went to work...and before you knew it all 3 boys had at least 2 tattoos. They were in heaven. The downside? They were drawn in Sharpie Marker so we're still seeing the remnants. I hope these are the only tattoos my boys ever get!






As a side note, Dave & Doug/Niki give the best gifts! They always seem to know what little boys want. Dave gave them a large paper roll that was like a giant coloring book all rolled up and a huge box of crayons and a DVD of Star Wars: the Clone Wars. They started coloring with Aunt Niki right after they opened it and haven't stopped coloring since. They love it. Doug and Niki gave Cam a Star Wars Sea Creature tank where you get to hatch sea creatures and watch them grow. Cam checks their progress every morning and thinks it is great. They gave Gavin walkie talkies...what could be better? (Ten-four good buddy.) They gave Owen a bucket of plastic sea creatures. All the gifts have given the boys hours of joy! And we got an electric back massager...aaahhhh!