Well I know I haven't posted in a while, not much has been going on really, but tonight we have had a busy evening, so I share with you our craziness!!!
Ayden has gotten into football lately. Mainly using his sisters as the opposing team and honing his tackling skills. Well he decided that he needed to have a helmet to protect his head. Well with his ingenius little mind he decided he'd go old school- use your coat hood and you'll be just fine!! He looks awfully proud of himself. We finally pried this off his head at dinner, "no hats at the table!!" On to Meysa now...
It is Meysa's job to set the table for dinner. She is in the wonderful stage of doing literally everything by herself. The only thing I am allowed to help her with is getting the plates and cups out of the cupboard and setting them on the counter for her to finish the job. Well you know in your silverware set you get a serving spoon, slotted spoon and a GIGANTIC fork. Yeah that is what she set at Ryan's place cause he's a "BIG GUY , so he needs a BIG FORK." Word for word that was Meysa's explaination for her choice. And of course we couldn't go and change anything now could we. So Ryan just had to make do!!
Open Wide Daddy!!!
Now why would she be posting about a door you ask, interesting you say?!! (I know, just realized that I indeed sound like yoda)!! Well to end the evening we had a "little" lock-out. For some reason our bedroom has the only keyed lock in the entire house. Why on earth there would be one, we are not sure. Although knowing who lived here before us (a bunch of college boys who got evicted), it wouldn't take too long before we could come up with some interesting hypothosis!! Anywho, on to the story at hand!! Ayden got all of the things in his room confiscated on Sunday for some shock therapy for bad behavior and all the contraband was stored in our room. He decided that he would lock out his friends and sisters who were inspecting it all. Well come to find out we did not have the key that fit that lock. So naturally I called our property management company who have after hour maintenance emergency people to help people when there is a crisis!! Yeah everyone except people who are locked out of their bedrooms!! They don't do locks and everything has to go through a locksmith!! Ryan was trying to pick the lock with anything he could find. At one point he said "those movie guys are full of crap, it takes more than a little shimmy here and there and you're in". The hinges were on the inside of the door as well as the screws on the door handle itself. We even tried using my trusty old Hollywood video membership card, no luck (I personally thought that last one would work)! He was a little frustraded to say the least. So to the phone book I go, while Ryan contiues to work on the door. I call all the 24 hour emergency lock out guys in the yellow pages. The first one was just sitting down to dinner at a resturant and didn't think he could help me!! The next guy could come in about three hours and charge me 90 bucks plus tax. One guy just flat out told me NO, and gave me the number to someone who might help!! Seriously people does the "24-hour emeregency lockout" not really mean 24-hours or just whenever the heavens you feel like getting off your toush and working!!! We have an emergency here and no one cares. Ok, so that may be a little dramatic but that is how we felt. Anyway the last guy I called was so nice. He could come in 30 minutes and he was only going to charge $70 plus tax (only 70 bucks!!). It was pay $70 or bust down the door and have to pay to replace the door. We took the locksmith. It took him 5 minutes to pick the lock and he earned 80 bucks!! Ryan thinks he should moonlight as a locksmith, make some serious cash!! Anyways that was just one evening from about 5pm to 7:15pm!! We were tired and slept really well in OUR own bed, not the couch thankfully!!
Christmas Eve night we drove down to Vancouver to Ryan's Uncle Joe and Aunt Joann's house to spend the evening!! It was fun. There were 25 people there and they usually open all their presents on Christmas Eve, hence the large pile of presents around the Christmas tree. It was crazy when it came time to open all the presents!! But lots of fun too.
Before all the presents could be opened we had to have dinner, but while waiting for dinner we all played lots of games. Ayden got expert instruction on Chinese checkers from his Great-Grandpa Ralph!!
Ayden and Meysa had fun learning some new games like connect-four and battleship!! What a fun evening it was, except for Lauryn not feeling well. We drove back to Lacey that night and got to bed about 1 am. We woke up the next morning to finish opening our presents and to see what Santa brought everyone. Ryan's brother and his wife stayed with us and it was so much fun!! The kids loved having Andy and Teresa stay with us. Everyone was so generous to our family, we were really spoiled this Christmas, so thank you family. We love you!!!
