Giant Baby Attacks Ginger Bread House

Reagan is so much fun. She is down for whatever. If you want to play with her Elefun Busy Ball Popper for hours, she is ready to play with you. Making these silly little videos is a blast. I have been thinking about this one since Susan, Reagan, and I built the house three weeks ago.  And how about Susan huh? I personally think her portrayal of Ginger the Gingerbread Woman stole the show. I found a woman who loves me for being me, married her, had a baby, and we’re having the best time of our lives! Enjoy the video!

 

Holiday Dinner with Friends

For years the holiday season would be on its way and I would tell myself, “this year I’m going to host a friends holiday dinner.” But the holidays would come and go filled with parties and shopping and grading finals and being lazy and I would miss it again. This year I finally had my chance. My close friends Aaron, Naomi, and their handsome baby boy were coming to town for Christmas. Aaron suggested we get together for a family night: husbands, wives, babies. I turned this suggestion into a 21 pound turkey and a ‘bring a side dish’ holiday dinner. In one house we had thirteen close friends and three babies 10 months old or younger. What a wonderful day. 

A few highlights were:

·         Sharing a dinner table with Susan, Reagan, Aaron, Naomi, Cameron, Brian, Sandra, Kaitlyn, Matt, Kat, Trevor, Melissa, Daren, Winona, and Brandon (Michelle you were missed).

·         8 month old Cameron Koles and 10 month old Kaitlyn Peel play, talk, and crawl all over each other.

·         3 month old Reagan almost acknowledged the other babies.

·         Kaitlyn giving Reagan a kiss. Causing Reagan to cry. Causing Kaitlyn to cry.

·         The biggest bird I had ever cooked came out wonderfully juicy.

·         All side dishes and desserts brought by friends were delicious including Brian’s stuffing that he bragged was his “Mother’s recipe” which I think was the brand of pre-made stuffing he bought.

·         The Farkas’ gravy so thick you had to cut it with a knife, but absolutely scrumptious.

·         Having so many friends together at one long table, talking, laughing, and saving lives . . .

Which brings me to the ULTIMATE HIGHLIGHT, Brian choking to death.

·         “Are you choking?” Trevor interrupted his own story to ask Brian, but Brian’s overall pleasant look on his face and speechlessness left Trevor confused. So Sandra, watching her husband’s lips turn blue jumped into action. “Are you choking? He’s choking!!!” She attempts to pound it out through his back, reaches around to start the Heimlich but the chair diminished all productivity. As half the table watched in wonder, confused that this large adult male couldn’t chew his food properly the other half still assumed he was joking around. Finally Daren jumps over two dinner guests and starts to pound on his back. Up pops the food and Brian (not kidding) catches the obstruction in mid air as it leaves his esophagus and mouth, and shouts “Got it!” As Brian regained consciousness Farkas topped off the event with a well timed “All right I get it, the gravy is thick!”

You know me, I love to host, I love my family, and I love my friends. I’m so thankful to enjoy a night like tonight. As I prepared my toast for the evening I decided to find a nice little quote about friendship to share. I will leave you with that quote, Happy Holidays.

"Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born."
- Anais Nin