Monday, January 26, 2009

Christmas 2008

A WONDERFUL CHRISTMAS AT THE LEMMO‘S. It was such a great one this year. We had Christmas Eve at our house, all of our Modesto family was here, the Christmas program was put on by Sean and Natalie. After the program we eat, eating is an big tradition in the Lemmo family. We miss Jack this year because he had to work, first time in 30 years. The tradition every year is that all of the kids sleep together. So this year all of the kids went to Jacob and Senessa‘s house. They stayed up and played cards and drank hot chocolate. They were up at 5am, they just couldn't wait. They all jumped in the car and went to our house to see what Santa had brought. Santa spoils the Lemmo’s. This year Santa brought Ruby a wagon. She sat in it for hours while we opened presents. It has two seats, one for her and one for one of her friends, cup holders, an awning to block the sun and storage in the back. I think it took us three hours to open presents, we all sit in a circle and each person opens one presents. It's fun that was because you get to see what everyone gets and it makes it last longer.

Ruby's First Birthday

Jacob and Senessa had Ruby’s first birthday on a Saturday at the club house at there apartment complex. It started at 12 and they had peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, chips, cookies, milk and hot apple cider. Family and friends were there and Ruby made out on presents. Ruby’s Yaya and Poppy gave her a table and chairs.

Thanksgiving

Sorry for being so long for blogging. I did start blogging for one reason and was because of using it as my journal. My last blog was at Halloween.

Thanksgiving seen so long ago, it didn’t start out good because my sister Cindy and my mom got into an accident coming to Modesto the day before Thanksgiving. They were on highway 80 going towards Sacramento and it was raining and Cindy went around a curve and hit black ice and went out of control. Cindy did say that she did everything wrong about trying to correct the out of control car. They ended up hitting the guard rail and the car ended up half way in the fast lane and cars and a semi truck just miss hitting them. Cindy was able to move the car onto the side of the highway. Make an long story short they did make it to Modesto later that day, Cindy and my mom were sore from the accident and it ended up that my mom had 2 broken ribs.
Thanksgiving was great we had Ed and Yvonne Bartley there. We had so much fun. Every Thanksgiving as a family we do something fun like singing to acting from musicals to movies and TV shows. The first act of the night was Jacob and I doing the Blues Brothers and it was one of the hits of the night. Second act of the night was Sean, Natalie and Chipper doing a dance routine from Roll Bounce. Third act of the night was Senessa and Chipper doing a skit from SNL Bring it on down to Omeletville. The last act of the night was from Chipper and Freddy and they were doing a skit from SNL too, Freddy was Frank Sinatra and Chipper was Stevie Wonder, It was as good or better than the Blues Brothers that night.

The rest of the Holiday weekend we played game and eat, to much fun.