A Barrel of Monkeys: Silly Monkey Boys

A Very Cali-Christmas

For Christmas this year, we escaped the cold days and nights of Indiana and headed to much fairer weather in California to visit Opa, Oma, and Uncle T.

The little monkeys got their first golf lesson on Opa's new putting green...

Christmas morning was filled with lots of toys from Santa!

Someone was "Nice" this year!

We got to spend lots of time with Uncle T, Miss Morgan, and of course the newest Stowers family member, Bonnie the dog!

Elias got to play Nintendo for the first time.

Uncle T popped the question and Miss Morgan said "Yes!!!!"

No holiday is complete without a little hemophiliac monkey wrench. Right before leaving, Emmett developed a bleed right over his port. This meant that Mama could not access it for over a week and we had to venture into LA to the hemophilia treatment center for factor.

Uncle T got to mix and push the factor. Then we treated Emmett to a California delicacy…..In-N-Out Burger.

I think he likes it.

To round out our hemo-status, Uncle T took us to visit the Advate Factor Factory at Baxter where he works. It was so cool to see how the magical juice is made to keep our boys healthy.

What California Christmas is not complete without making sand angels?

Or pretending to be Spiderman?

Lastly, us artisans ventured into Hollywood to catch a viewing of the Lion King musical at the fabulous Pantages Theatre!

Merry Christmas everyone!

Coal or Candy? The Search for Santa

Since we like to celebrate little aspects of our German heritage during the Christmas season, the boys put their shoes on the fest of St. Nick in hopes of candy and not coal.

The boys were good this year and here are the toys to prove it.

We got a nice snowfall to kick off our Christmas season. We headed down to Monument circle to mail Mr. Claus a letter with toy intentions….

Let's see if Elias has made the Naughty or Nice List….

So we headed to the local Indiana State Museum, where we heard Santa was hanging out to find out.

Santa's Train

The new mammoth exhibit was across from Santa, so we stopped to dig...

Building in Santa's workshop

'Tis the Season...

…to be jolly and busy! Fa, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la. We have been so busy here in the the barrel that we have not had to chance to share it all until today. Happy New Year friends and family! Here's a few highlights from the last few weeks in our holiday strung barrel in a series of posts.