Saturday, January 30, 2010

A California Christmas

Dave and I spent Christmas in California this year with his family, it was fun to experience a Hulihan Christmas and spend time with everyone!

Christmas Eve was spent at Tommy and Christine home (Dave's brother and his wife) along with the rest of Dave's family who were in California. It was a fun time and I really enjoyed celebrating with everyone!


(Dave's grandma Betty, sister Kelsy and uncle Doug)


In Dave's family on Christmas eve everyone sings carols, this is Kelsy and Doug practicing guitar! Kelsy is just learning to play and Doug was giving her a lesson.



The adorable nieces and nephew acting out the Nativity story (Another Hulihan tradition for Christmas eve) The 'angel' is Kalea and the little 'Joseph' is her brother Isaiah (they are Tommy and Christine's children) And the little 'Mary' is Shayla (Dave's sister Larissa and her husband Jon's daughter).

After a wonderful day with lots of socializing, good food and fun, Dave and I along with Dave's parents, aunt Sheelah, uncle Doug, grandma Betty and sister Kelsy all went to Glendora to spend Christmas morning together at grandmas Betty's home.


(Doug and Sheelah)


Christmas morning was really nice and everyone was very generous to us! We had a very nice time together and everyone seemed to enjoy what we got them!


(Dave and his toothbrush...)


This picture sums up Dave's obsession with his teeth... As soon as Kelsy went to check on breakfast for just a second (we were still doing Christmas morning presents) Dave saw an opening and he pounced at it... He hadn't even eaten breakfast yet but he had to get his teeth clean... He was very courteous though and stood in the doorway so we could resume our gift giving and didn't have to wait for him to finish.

We had a great Christmas and really enjoyed our time in California! Thank you to everyone who made our Christmas wonderful!


4 comments:

Kelsy said...

ah, I'm so glad you guys came! It was so fun to have you there Amber! Miss you guys!

Amy said...

Ahh Dave--gotta keep those teeth from crumblin'! I'm glad you had a good time, Amber--I was worried about it!

Douglas Smith said...

It was great spending Christmas with you Dave! We don't get a chance to see you very often, and it's always fun when we do.

Maybe this summer!

Chantel said...

I'm glad you guys had such a good time! Those look like great traditions :-)

I love that you got a picture of Dave brushing his teeth