12/21 & 22 - I watched Luke for about a day and a half while his parents were still working! I suppose that is the benefit of having a teacher for a sister--when school's out, so is she! He was super cute all day. We'd do breakfast, we'd watch some tv... then we'd take a nap together. Probably my favorite thing about his naps, is that both times, partially through lunch, he just walks up to me and says, "Sleep now." It's the sweetest thing. Then we'd take his little portable dvd player, his blanky, and we hop onto his parents' bed and take our nap. He has the sweetest little breathing when he sleeps.
Christmas Break - First we went to Houston. We spent the first night (Christmas Eve Eve) shopping. We ran into Anh Vien & Chi Hong at Anthro... they invited us over for some scrumptious diddlyumptious foods! Before we headed over... Lisa and I stopped by BLHDN... Heaven. OMG HEAVEN.
Pretty room
It's like a museum of dresses!
A dress I looooved!
Early Christmas morning I got a phone call from my cousin Jon asking if Austin wanted to come and play some flag football. I let him know Thomas was in town, and he was promptly invited as well. We all went up to Dobie (along with a couple of Austin's friends) and met up a bunch of my cousins (Jon, Jimmy, Peter, Nes) and a bunch of David's friends (Donson, Peter, Thu--who watched, Steve, Felix, Nappy, etc.) They played some muddy, messy, miserable football, but they looked like they had fun! They also looked like they were going to be very very sore. Also, Felix made this video of them playing.
Old dudes thinking they're not so old anymore :)
Christmas with the fam was pretty typical, food and fun :) No Chi Tram and no David. :( Here are some pictures of my lovely family:
Early Christmas morning (early = 4 am... which is DEFINITELY early if you fell asleep at 3:30) Thomas and I drove to Dallas. (Thomas drove... I slept). Once we got to the Wilders, I woke up the sleepyheads and we all sat around the living room and opened presents. My present from Dana is TO DIE FOR.
The rest of the time in Dallas was spent hanging with friends. Part of the time we hung out with members of the Dennis family (Thomas's cousins on his mom's side) and then we also got some time with Crazy Carl and Matt McEvoy. It was good times all around! :) Especially playing loaded questions...
Eventually we headed back to Houston for some more funzie times. I got home, Thomas headed off to the movies to meet Anh Vinh, Austin & Aaron, and I went to Baybrook Mall with Amanda, Amber & Chi La. Later on that night Thomas, Jenny, and I met up James at La Madeleine. There we gossiped about people we knew and caught each other up on what's going on. It was basically dinner with three of my favorite people :)
High School!
Speaking of high school, the next morning was spent at Lan Le's engagement party. Lan was my best friend freshman year in high school. Eleven years later, she's getting married! :) She had a traditional Vietnamese engagement party--roasted pig and all. She asked her guests to wear their traditional Vietnamese ao dai (or, in Simra and Rabia's case, their saris). I... don't have one. Well, I do, but it was made for me when I was 15 for my confirmation. Ten years later, there is NO WAY IN HELL that I'm going to fit into that.
That night the family spent much of it together shooting fireworks. Fireworks are our favorite :) Katie stopped by for a bit and spent a lot of time being talked back into her letterpress ideas by Lisa!
Simra, Rabia, Phuong, Lan, Me, Natalie, Nga & Tien
We're all grabbing Lan's boob. Gee, I wonder who started that...?
The gang... thoroughly grossed out by Lan & Braeden's blatant PDA
That night the family spent much of it together shooting fireworks. Fireworks are our favorite :) Katie stopped by for a bit and spent a lot of time being talked back into her letterpress ideas by Lisa!
On the last day of 2011, the last year she's officially single :) Marriage awaits in 2012!
Aaaaaaaand I think that's it for my recap of the holidays!
