Christmas Day at Po Po and Gung Gung's

After we celebrated Christmas at our house we went to Po Po and Gung Gungs {after nap time} to celebrate some more!

Getting ready for presents but first we have to take pictures...

Kenzi us smiling in this one but not Emi and Melanie...

Emi has a fake smile, Melanie is looking good but Kenzi is...well...

Another fake smile from Emi and Kenzi is looking away...Melanie is probably wondering when this is going to end...

Close...

Okay we are done!  This is as good as it's going to get...

Kenzi decided she needed a piano break.

The 5 of us.

Our family

Po Po, Gung Gung and the kids!

Take two...

Now time for presents!  Emi was the expert this year...

Emi helping Kenzi unwrap gifts.  Kenzi got clothes, books and some toys too!

Emi got a sewing machine, games and clothes!

Po Po, Kenzi and Melanie...
Melanie got a sea horse glow worm, she's thinking about sharing it with Kenzi.

Everyone got great gifts and the kids were spoiled by Po Po, Gung Gung, and their aunties and uncles...Thank you everyone!  Merry Christmas!

Great Wolf Lodge

Erich usually has vacation days to spend with us over the holidays and this year we took a mini trip to Great Wolf Lodge. We'd never been before so it was something we were all looking forward to!

It snowed in the lobby 3 times a day!

Emi pressing her penny for a souvenir.

Kiss attack!

Emi wanted to check out the arcade...

Hello!

Emi's first arcade game!

Boppin' the ground hogs...

Tickets!

Next game...pull the lever = 100 tickets!

2nd pull = 5,000 tickets!

They kept coming...other kids came by and were in awww...
Emi didn't really know what was going on but the tickets kept coming and coming...

After the 5,000 tickets came out we had to take them over to the "ticket counting machine,"
 yah that took forever because there were 5,000 tickets...

Coloring at the Kid's Club.  This was a really fun room where they had coloring, games, books and other arts and crafts projects.

Playing Candy Land, so fun!

Little Wolf!

Hungry Wolf!

Wolf who is smiling because we asked her a few times...finally this is what we got...

The Family!

Happy, happy!

Emi's favorite thing to do was listen to the story time in the lobby.

Hanging out in the Kids Cabin.  There was a bunk bed on the other side,
 3 twin beds total and then a queen on the other side of the "cabin."  Next time we'll bring family!

Listening to story time.

Coloring in the lobby.

The wave pool was Emi's favorite this time.  I was surprised that
she was brave enough to go on the big slides all by herself!

All in all we had a great trip, however we did catch some bug or food poisoning...with in an hour after getting home Emi got sick, then Kenzi, me and Erich.  It was not a very fun 48 hours.  Thankfully we were all better by Christmas day!

We celebrated Christmas Eve a little early this year at Christine and Eric's new house {which was my grandma's house}.  It was fun celebrating at a "new, old house" where my sisters and I have had many childhood memories.  Tonight was like any Lam family gathering, full of fun and laughter!

Gung Gung, Po Po and the babies!

Sharing a plate with Gung Gung.

I don't remember what we were talking about but I thought it
was cute how Emi placed her hand on my face.

Emi wanted a spot right next to Melanie at the table.

Kenzi (10 months)

Kenzi and Melanie

Emi and Auntie Natalie

Auntie Christine and Uncle Eric

Auntie Jeanie and Uncle Marc

Po Po and Kenzi

Auntie Sonia and Uncle Joe being goofy!

Uncle Erich and Melanie

I love this picture :)

Kenzi was afraid of Davey at first but seeing Emi
more comfortable with him this year helped.

Auntie Sonia and Melanie

Little Kenzi's first Christmas!

Auntie Christine assigned Emi a very important job tonight, she was the
"ice cream waitress," with a menu and an apron!  She did a great job asking each person,
"What kind of ice cream would you like?"  

I love how Kenzi has her hand on her head in this picture as if she is thinking,
"Why do they think they are going to get a good shot of all 3 of us."  But we tried...

This was the best one I got on my camera, I'll have to check Auntie Jeanie's blog
to see if she got a better one.

Time for Secret Santa presents.  Auntie Jeanie gave Kenzi
two great books and a very cute penguin outfit!  Thank you!!!

Emi was the expert gift opener of the evening, asking everyone if they would
like help opening their present.  She got the Hungry Hippos game from Po Po.
She loves this game!  Thank you!

Thank you for having us over to your new place,
it was a great night for the girls and us!