Merry Christmas!!

Merry Christmas all!

Had a nice relaxing Christmas day here in the Shade. We stayed up Christmas Eve til about 11, 11.30 watching It's a Wonderful Life, always a classic. Did you know that that movie initially did horribly when it first came out? It didn't even make enough money to cover the production costs at first, but then apparently became a staple as tv channels began looking for holiday programming. The kids all stayed up pretty late (2 am?) BDan and Keaton watching videos on YouTube, while Julia and I worked on the finishing touches of some Christmas presents. That meant we only got up and at em around 9.30 am. Pretty wild. Mom and I were up the earliest, about an hour before everyone else, and contemplated waking everyone else by jumping on their beds like we did to mom and pop as little kiddys on Christmas morning.

I love our Christmas traditions, the stockings first and then just passing around presents and eating cinnamon rolls, watching newly opened movie-presents and lying around in our pjs. Mom made a delicious lasagna we had after all the presents were opened. This year Brother Garcia came over to take some quick pics of the family- Mom put them up on her facebook- and we just finished a grueling game of Mexican Train.

I love my family. So glad we could come out to spend the holidays with them. I love love love Brandon's family as well, but the two are very different creatures. Weather pending, Brandon and I will head back, loaded up with presents and my old things from high school to sort through, stop for some WaWa hoagies at the top of the NE extension and be home in time for Christmas with the Stumps Tuesday evening.

Love you all, thanks for being an excellent family. :D

Liberty

Plus a bonus pic:

PPS- that killer Viking hat mom's wearing in one of those pics? That was the last-minute present that kept me and J up so late Christmas eve. Totally forgot how much I had left to do to finish it, but it was definitely worth it.

Adventures and Excitement

OKAY!!! as we're waiting here for Christmas for the Moho and Sumner family to kick off we figured that we'd do a little bit of updating so everybody knew that yes we were still alive and that also we have been doing lots of exciting things. NOT to say that sitting at home together and finally being able to enjoy married life as a newlywed couple properly should. But Indira is going to be here a total of 5 weeks. There needs to be some planned activities. But fiiiiIIRRRRSSSTTT...

INTRODUCTIONS!!
This is the hotel that I had booked for Indira for the first couple of days that she was here, she would've stayed there longer, I made my reservations later than I should've, so we had to be out by Wednesday. Yes those are Christmas lights, Yes I put them up before Indira even arrived to surprise her with a romantic "honeymoon suite" and yes our bed is completely unmade, or sheets were dirty so we had to go downstairs and ask about them. they took the sheets and this is before they had brought new ones... <--- ---- (That was a Filthy Lie)
Our first adventures off base (once we got her registered into the system so she could get back on) were sort of limited. We didn't do a whole lot as it was FREEZING I think the wind chill was in the low single digits. ICY as you can see in The picture the sun was going down as well, and of course that made it even colder. we didn 't do much this first day, it was pretty much, "let's go out to eat!!" This was when Indira tried Kimchi for the first time, it was slightly spicy to me, and not at all spicy to her (you know Mexican taste buds) ha ha, but it wasn't anything too bad. I've heard that there are lots of different typed of kimche out there, and really, depending on where you go is what decides what kind you get. here's a video of that dining experience along with some pictures...

The food was really really good and we plan on going back again soon. There's lots of places that I want to take Indira, 4 that I can think of off the top of my head right now here sitting and thinking about it. So yea, there will be more posts about food and restaurants and such so stay 'posted' heh heh heh

see you all SOON, there's more to come, we promise! lots of adventures and fun AWAITS Love you all. -Blake (and Indira, she's passed out early, not feeling well and such)

ANYEONG HASEO!!!! (hello!)

this is the first of many, we hope you enjoy our adventures as much as we are.
We need to get on skype sometime. And we promise to get better at video blogging. haha
Love you,
Indira & Blake :)

HAPPY BIRTHDAY INDIRA

Happy Birthday girl! Yes, we're a day late, please forgive. But we love you!

Random pictures to celebrate your awesomeness!!!

I think this is proof Indira is gonna be the pretty sister. (sorry J, but you can't argue with that)

What a cutie-patootie!!

Glad to hear your birthday was so wonderful. :] Now I can put it on my calendar for next year :D Love you girlie!!
Liberty