This is as good as it gets for kids over
seas...Ghetto-Claus. It's a far cry from the guy they have at Provo Town Center, but hey, Santa's all about a kid's imagination and the magic of Christmas, right?
We're at the "mall" they have on the base in Mildenhall. The one good thing they had was a very talented balloon artist...
Britty, our little angel...
Tarah and Eliza got flowers with bubble-like stuff coming out of the middle...
and Brandon got an alien hitchhiker.
Christmas morning!!! The kids got a lot of clothes. This is Brandon's favorite shirt, it has the solar system on it.
Sweet Tarah with a painting set from Grandma and Grandpa Bear (I think).
Britty opening a box with clothes in it. She is wearing a new church dress that was supposed to be a Christmas present but Brandon opened the package it was in (it came in the mail several days before Christmas) and said, "Oh, hey Brit, mama got you a new dress."
Eliza opening...I don't know...clothes probably!
This was several days after Christmas, about an inch of snow fell and they had a ton of fun while it lasted (which wasn't long).
I didn't get pictures of my Christmas present, which would have been hard to photograph anyhow (two women caught up in a shopping frenzy). I got to go to London and go shopping with a girlfriend. We left in the morning, shopped all day, stopped at a pub for a proper English dinner of Bangers and Mash (English sausages and mashed potatoes with a red wine gravy), and then home. It was amazing. I got tons of clothes and had an unforgetable time. The only thing I couldn't find were shoes. Not because there were no shoe stores, there were plenty, it's just that European shoes are SOOOOO ugly!!! I'm not kidding! I must have looked in eight shoe stores, high end ones at that, and I was thoroughly disappointed. So a word to the future tourist, don't come expecting to find great shoes. I have bought a pair of Doc Marten's while I've been here, but I got them on Ebay from America...no European shoes for me until they look more like American shoes.
Eliza's fourth birthday, Dec. 4.
Dress up jewelry from Grandpa and
Grandma Phillips.
Our little princess.
Her dress up outfit from Grandma and Grandpa Lyman. Eliza loves playing dress up and usually spends most of the day in dress up clothes (this is her favorite dress, taking the place of the Tinker Bell costume she used to wear nonstop).
This is Eliza's birthday party, Brandon, Brittany, Tarah, Eliza, Keegan, Buddy, Danny, Annie, and Chad...whew.
