The Sock Hop

Julia's school, St. Anthony's, had a sock hop on January 16th. I went down after work and helped get the gym ready to rock and roll. Dan wanted to leave Sophia with Nana, but I agreed to chase after her, so both girls got the poodle skirts rockin and we had a great time. Julia made me enter the hoola hoop contest....I had a record time for quickest elimination.... We had pizza, did the macarena, and the chicken dance. Sophia LOVED it and Julia had a great time with her friends.

Christmas 2008

Christmas eve at our house
Julia and Sophia at christmas mass at st. anthony's

Dustin, Ethan, Samantha and Julia at Richards

Dustin, Danielle, Megan, Sarah and Julia

The Nativity scene that Julia made for school.

We had a great christmas. Dan's parents came down from MN. We celebrated Christmas Eve with my brothers, my sister and the kids. Dan's parents stayed with us, so we did presents as a family that night. Christmas morning we opened presents from Santa, and went to mass. Sophia was a little nutty, so Dan ran her to my mom's during the service and we didn't even know it until he came back alone for communion...lol. After a brief visit at my parents, we all went out to my brother Richards for a wonderful Lasagna dinner. It was so nice to have brothers, sisters, parents, cousins, aunts, uncles, inlaws all in one place to celebrate a great day.