Baby RJ

Love!

 The kids were loving on baby RJ so I had to get a few pictures. They are so precious with him! I know they can't wait til he gets a little older and can play with them!

Christmas Day

 Christmas day was a lazy day of hanging out, playing with new toys, snuggling with RJ, taking a walk, eating Christmas dinner, taking family photos and playing a new game. It was a great day! We love getting to spend time with the whole family.

Sean painted his new dinosaurs. He was very precise in his painting!

Once it stopped raining we went out for a walk, this sign is at the neighbors house

Reading a new book with Aunt Al

Love this! Annie is a burrito!

Being so cute is just so exhausting!

Ready to eat!

dinner time

The Ertels

The Petersons

The Proud Nana and Poppi with their grandkids

Rettig Grandkids! Carter, 2, Sean 5.5. and RJ 7 weeks

Aunt JoAnn and the big kids

Aunt JoAnn and the big and little kids

The whole Family!

New game for Christmas-was very entertaining to watch the guys act out their cards!

Christmas in Cville (Christmas #3)

 At the Rettig house, we do things a little differently for Christmas morning. We all stay in our PJ's and open gifts and then eat Nana's home made sticky buns, which might be my favorite part! We had a new addition to the family this year which we were all super excited about. RJ didn't open many gifts this year but he'll get the hang of it before next year, for sure! Everyone had a wonderful time opening gifts and then eating sticky buns!

Grandkids and their Annie!

Just what she needed to add to her dress up collection

Checking out what is in their stockings

They were great helpers passing out gifts

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Excited for another Christmas!

Checking out his new ornaments from Annie

She loved her new ornaments

She had to put the hawiian dress she got on, of course

The aftermath!

SOOOO good!

Christmas Eve in Cville-Japanese Style!

We headed home from NC to make a one day pit stop before going to Cville for our third Family Christmas.  Since Poppi recently worked in Japan we were able to have a Japanese Christmas eve sushi and all! The kids made their own version of sushi (which I have to say is what I ate...ha ha) while the grown ups ate real sushi before Asian ribs for dinner. Poppi even got them costumes to wear to fit the part! It was a lot of fun!

Ready to roll his sushi

Carter did hers too!

Time to eat it! (It was rice krispy treats filled with gummy worms and wrapped in a fruit roll up if anyone wants to try it out with their kids)

Not exactly proper use of the chop sticks but it'll do.

YUM!

Sean is a new found fan of sushi!]

They loved it!

The grown up sushi

Loves her Annie!

snuggle time with Uncle Drew

Almost time for bed!

Christmas Day Fun

Christmas was amazing and we all got exactly what we wanted (mommy got a new camera!! YAY!) and so of course we all wanted to play with our new toys, mommy included!

Love my sweet guy!

got her new dress on playing with her new dolls

Sean loves all of his new dragons and new airplane

Yes, this is happening!

She even slept with the tutu

Still loves his octopod from Santa though

Unfortunately, not too long after this the stomach virus hit the Bliss House. Nama, then Auntie, and then Poppy and Kevin all came down with it on Christmas Day. Nama had to miss Christmas dinner which was no good. We thought we were germ free when we came down but apparently we were not. When we got back to Richmond, we de-germed our entire house hoping to end this horrible stomach virus streak that we had going. Dan and I got it, the kids got it twice and then all of my family did as well. Ick! Thankfully my grama and grampa made it out of town without getting it--but they had to cut their visit short. Lets hope we we are done with the stomach flu finally!