Fun Times!

Our cousins from Iowa came to visit us. We had lots of fun cousin time, yay! The day after they left we met at the Tennessee Aquarium in Chattanooga, TN.

some of them played dutch blitz

                         Rebekah and Harrison                            us in the visitors center by the aquarium 

 a few pictures Corina took of the girls

all the cousins from our two families lined up in order of age

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here are some pictures in the aquarium

in this shallow pool, you could touch sting rays and a kind of little sharks

Chandler feeding the a sting ray

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the butterfly garden

                                                                          Courtney holding a butterfly

                                                                       Chandler holding 2 butterflies!

Elise and Elizabeth

Courtney and Rebekah

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We all ate lunch in the Bontragers bus... and yes it was quite full :)

after lunch we explored the rest of the aquarium... so here comes more pics!

Chelsy holding Harrison

Our "Christmas Eve Dinner"

Ok, so this post is like waaaaay over due, but better late than never so anyway, here it is. We didn't have our Christmas Eve dinner on Christmas Eve so we had it in January instead. Here are some pictures.

the food table

   

       seven-layer jello made by Mom                            fruit platter(I looove chocolate covered strawberries)

  

            chocolate-mint candy and                                                spinach dip on bread made by Corina

  

cheeseball with crackers made by Breanna(with a little help I think)           pizza biscoti made by Mom

 

                   carrots and celery                                                                     scones made by me

hotdogs wrapped in bacon made by Chandler

    

                         the center piece                                                            our "special" goblets

 

decorations on the food table

uh oh...looks like the cheesball snowman "melted"

playing a fun game of spoons

as you can see there's more than one thing you can do with spoons

trying....

....got it!

if you can put 'em on your face why not inbetween your toes?