Merry Christmas!

Christmas Day and Elisabeth was the first one up in the house. It wasn't long before Andrew followed us downstairs. So we dug into the stockings. Andrew's was full of the usual things (chocolate orange, Dilbert calendar...) but right at the bottom was his real Christmas present...A new wedding ring! You might recall, he lost his while working on cleaning up our building lot this fall. I couldn't find one that was exactly like his old ring, and I was dismayed with how much rings cost. But a great pre Christmas sale and a patient salesman helped me find something that I'm pretty happy with.

Next came Davey. He was still half asleep and in what I like to call his Calvin mode (notice the squishy face? Very calvinesque!) but soon woke up.

ahhhhh..our stockings were full of bandaids and socks and
masks and
Cutlery? Mum must have been desperate when she did the shopping!

Then we had some early morning revellers out to greet us!

And it was time to play with our presents.

More presents at Grandma's house...



Kathi has pictures from the dinner which I will try to steal later. Suffice it to say that it was one of our best yet. Cody and Kat supplied the turkey and mashed taters, I did stuffing, cranberries and veggies, Dave (or rather Alexis) supplied the Italian Christmas cake. YUM!

Then we kidnapped Jade and had a sleep over.