A Very Merry Christmas

The Christmas Brunch tradition continues.

Gramma Claus helps with opening presents.

Anna clues Ben in on Christmas Traditions.

Al & Heather with Buddy.

Ben plays with Buddy's new toy

Al, Angela, and Andrew.

It has been a wonderful Christmas. Angela, Ethan and the kids have been here about a week. We have had snow almost every day, but Christmas Day was sunny and warm (in the 20's). We had everyone here Christmas Eve including Sue's folks, her sister Jean and her son Mark, and brothers Joe and Steve and all our Michigan kids. There is really not room for everyone at once, so the attendance was staggered, but it worked well and we greatly enjoyed the evening.

Christmas morning, we had our traditional brunch with the missionaries and Angela, Andrew, and Al were with us. We had a beautiful walk at the Dog Park with Buddy in the afternoon and spent the rest of the day getting rested up.

Merry Christmas to all.

God Bless us everyone

We had a wonderful Christmas. We had the Christmas Eve gathering with Susan's folks, sister, nephew, brothers, Andy, Al, Angela, Ethan, & Anna; Beth, Stuart, and kids over for a lot of delicious food.

Christmas morning we continued our tradition of having the missionaries over for brunch and that was followed by the opening of the presents. Anna is such a little lady. She got a apron and Polly Pocket dolls as well as a baby boy doll she named Benjamin to get used to the idea of a baby brother.


Sue and I went to Angela and Ethans in the afternoon to play with Anna and listen to Angela play some Christmas music on the piano. Al and Heather joined us there and then came to our house to eat some of the leftovers.

Buddy and I got in daily walks although it was a bit treacherous on the ice that came after the 3/4 inches of rain on Sunday morning. We have had great winter weather through most of December. After the rain, we still have snow cover, but it is crusty and icy.