Christmas in Gonzales

We had a wonderful Christmas 2010. Jonathan is just old enough to have fun opening the first present. Then he gets a little bored trying to get the paper off and gives up. Stephen absolutely loved the whole Christmas (Santa) experience this year. He learned all the fun songs for the Christmas season at daycare and made tons of art. We were home this year for our own Seale family Christmas with the boys. Then we drove to Pearland for lunch with The Barton's and Lolo and Grams Seale. Christmas day was an interesting and exciting day. The first event of the day that happened was we lost power around 12:30pm (thankfully after a big lunch). Most of Cheri's house lost power right as we were putting all 5 kids down for naps. We had a wonderful plan until the power went out. It threw everything off when we couldn't get all the sound machines to work. It still worked except we did not get to put down the 2 oldest kids (Stephen and Hunter). The youngest and only girl Skye (14 months) woke up about 40 minutes into her nap when she could hear us. Jonathan went down fine because he was in the master bathroom in a pack-n-play with the bathroom fan on. We tried to plug in a real fan in the bathroom to find out the beginning of the "no power" event. The men began to troubleshoot the problem for the next few hours. Daniel had complained that morning of having some back pain and it continued throughout the rest of the morning and into lunch. He was honestly doing fine but taking Aleve for pain. Around 2:45pm it got really bad so I decided to take him to the ER. He began to have trouble breathing. After a shot in the arm and chest x-rays we left the ER to find out the. They dismissed him with a back strain or muscle strain. What a day. He left with a prescription of pain meds and strict instructions not to pick up the boys for a week.






Noni Lucas taught and her 4 grand children are putting out treats for Santa and his reindeer. The grand children are playing are their fun new "big" toys that will stay at the Lucas house.