Christmas

The children woke up at 7:15 Christmas morning. We had to leave for church by 8:30, so not much time to open presents.

Jack and Lilly came out and found the bears Santa left and then waited for everyone to come to the living room to open presents.



This picture was taken with the old camera, before the new camera was opened.

(New Camera)

Papa brought a lot of presents.

This is the only picture I allowed of myself from Christmas morning.  Not my favorite picture, but at least it is proof that I was there and happy!

Our camera has a sketch effect, in case you are wondering what the picture below is all about. Lilly and my dad were pretty excited about the sketch feature.

I don't think Jack looked directly at the camera all morning.  When Lilly was 2 she took her time opening presents to the point of exhaustion. Jack wanted more and more presents, he kept saying "Open!"

I played a lot of the music at church, so I was very relieved when it was all over.  We came home after church opened the rest of the presents and then had Christmas breakfast.  Jim made his bacon blanket, which seems to be the new holiday breakfast tradition at our house.  It was consumed so quickly that I didn't get a chance to take an "after" picture.

I cleaned up and then re-packed to head down to my mom's house.  We all crammed into our little car with Uncle Oliver and drove down to see my mom and Scott.

Isn't my mom's tree beautiful?

Kit and Julie made the drive with us.

We opened more presents, had a Christmas feast, and played rummikub (my favorite game).  My mom made her funeral potatoes, I think I would be happy eating those for the rest of my life.

We are now home enjoying a few days off.  Merry Christmas!