THE BEGINING OF CHRISTMAS

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!

If you are like our family by the time Christmas gets here it actually feels like you have been celebrating it for a number of days. A week ago Santa visited Matt and Ryann's house so that was the beginning of Christmas for our family. The following day we celebrated Christmas with my extended family which is only Pat at this point who is in the area. We celebrated last Sunday. The older girls each had parties at their schools this week too. Our family attended Candle Light Service on Wednesday evening. Of course if you read the blog we were at the Jingle Bell Jog yesterday morning. Last evening we celebrated Christmas with our children and grandchildren. The kids now go on to celebrate with their other families. We will be going to visit Ron's parents this week with Erin and the girls to have a little Christmas with them too. Matt's children visited with them last week for their bit of Christmas with them too. I have a feeling we are like every other family at Christmas, but isn't that what it's all about? Love of family and the birth of Baby Jesus. Here are a few pictures of our Christmas last evening. Pictures of the presents under the Christmas tree. People keeping busy before eating and waiting to opening presents. That was especially hard for the little girls. All they wanted to do was open their presents.

Presents from the front of the tree
From the side of the tree

And the other side of the tree.

There were even present in front of the fireplace.

Marshall and Daddy hanging out in the kitchen.

The girls.

Tayler is actually behind Dylann and Sydney.

She was searching for something under the desk.

The color of the evening was black for the little girls.

Sydney was sitting with Pappy and made the comment to him as to how he liked her brand new dress. Pappy knew he had been busted. He covered it well and told her how pretty it was and how pretty she looked. They all looked so pretty.

Standing on the coffee table with Pappy in the background.

A little while later the little girls were getting into trouble for doing this.

Bad Pappy!!!

Some how, some way they are always putting on a show.

The girls at their own little table.

Dinner is over, now the clean up begins.

Please grown ups, get done so we can open gifts.