Ho Ho Ho!

Here's a glimpse of the Streff household at Christmas. Kipp did a great job on the lights this year. We finally figured out (from the help of our neighbors) that you can stick the lights on your brick with a hot glue gun! Who knew!

Ryan is now 6 WEEKS! We can't believe its already been that long.

I caught Ryan sucking her thumb for the first time. She usually tries to get her whole fist in, but this time she found her thumb and latched on!

This last pic is Kella at 6 weeks also. It was about this same time that she too found her fingers. She still sucks on her first two fingers of her right hand when she's tired. Unlike a paci, we can't take her fingers away!

You lie fwyd wiiiice (You like fried rice!)

It was time for our 2nd annual Japanese Christmas with the Canterbury's & friends! We had a great night enjoying hibachi at Kobe's Steakhouse, one of our FAVORITES!!! And by the way, this picture was taken by our photographer in the making, KELLA!!!!

Another great pic by Kella!!!

Enjoying Heather's dessert and watching the "biiiiig fire" on the grill. Great place for dinner with the kiddos, free entertainment!!!

Kella getting some practice with chop sticks.

Kella loves her Heather & Chad!!!

Merry Christmas!

Happy Birthday Jesus!

Kella's "school" had a Happy Birthday Jesus party last Thursday morning. We got to help with an art project, eat snacks and of course sing Happy Birthday to Jesus! What a fun morning!!!

Fun stuff!

Here's Ryan enjoying her first "real bath", not her usual wipe-down, can you say bye-bye belly button! I remember Kella crying the whole time, but Ryan seemed to enjoy the pampering.

Happy Thanksgiving! Ryan made her first road trip to Oak-kah-koma (as Kella says). We planned our strategy and fed everyone before we left, but unfortunately leaving Dallas at

4 o' clock on a friday set our schedule back by almost 2 hours. Ugh! It made for a funny story, here goes.... We stopped at our usual spot in Atoka for potty breaks and red bull. I discovered that Kella had wet herself when we made it to the bathroom. This was after I carried her in and my arm was now wet! Back in the car, I stripped her down and found the nearest pair of pants & new panties, not matching, of course. Kipp graciously offered 2 of his t-shirts for her to now sit on in her wet car seat. I sent him in after a bag from the convenient store to put the wet clothes in, he had to explain to the clerk what it was for when she wanted to double bag our goodies after his request. The guy behind him said, "road trip, huh?" Kipp - "yeah, my daughter peed in her car seat while she was asleep" (Note to self - pack pull-ups for long distance driving where sleeping is involved.) He said, "yeah, us too. Our dog has already thrown up 3 times!" We had parked next to each other and had a good laugh when the boys returned to the car. By this time Ryan was awake and HUN-GRY, so we spent the next 20 min people watching the fine citizens of Atoka! Good times!

II am fortunate enough to have a husband who, I think, loves Christmas more than I do. We both anxiously wait to put up the lights when it seem like our neighbors won't think we're too eager. We came home early from Sallisaw just to do our decorating. It has been so fun this year to see Christmas through Kella's eyes. Last year she would get excited, but didn't really get it, but this year has been such a joy and its only Dec. 4th!!!! We decorated "her" tree and she still gets excited every time we walk in her room. "It's christmas tree lights! Sooo spark-ah-lee!" If I can figure out how to add a video on this thing, her rendition of "Jwingle Bewls" is pretty spectacular!

Toot-Toot!!!

We visited the trains at Northpark mall. Here we are in New York, New York!
Mount Rushmore

Ryan was the best traveler. This is what she does ALL DAY!!!

Can you say bless-ing!!!

We made our way all the way to the Golden Gate Bridge. Whew! What a day!

Can I get someone to look this way. hehehe

Oldies but goodies!

I ran across these pics that mom took this summer. Such a sweet girl!

This stork was rented by our friends Tal & Casey. Kella got such a kick out of it. Her "big sister" star is now hanging in her room. Our neighbors enjoyed it just as much when their kids asked "why do they have a bird in their yard?" Ahhhh, kids!