January 2, 2012
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Christmas Week
I’ve been so blessed by my family whom I love so much. The week between Christmas and New Year we were all together for parts of three days. Some coming at the beginning of the week and leaving Friday, others coming Wed. and leaving Sunday.
I hope these pictures give you a glimpse of our Holiday cheer.
There were gifts, laughter, oohs and ahhhs!
We open one gift at a time so we can savor and enjoy the children’s excitement.
Little Bo is the youngest so he got to open his gift first.
Aunt Holly with the five nieces watching and waiting for their turns.
There was singing. There were games.
Christopher and Alicia enjoying some time with friends Jason and Lydia. I wish you could hear these four sing. They sound so good together!
There was food! Ethan made the bread and Queena a yummy soup for one of our evening meals.
One morning Cheryl made a wonderful Brunch and one evening Jessica took care of the evening meal.
What do you think of these creative little Penguins?
(Olives, cream cheese and carrot slices)
Here Summer is helping her momma make individual little bread pans.
Holly getting help with decorating Christmas cookies.
They turned out so cute and yummy.
What is it about Guys and Knives?
What can I say? Like father like sons! This grandma was pretty impressed with the survival knives Grant and Shad had belted on, but somehow I think they could survive without them!
Knives do come in handy when it comes to skinning and cutting up a deer.
See what the girlies thought about that deer.
Summer you silly girl, I don’t think it was that bad!
I wonder if these punkins will be eating deer meat this winter.
I’ll leave you with some “finer” things of life.
One morning we were treated to a brunch tea party. No boys allowed!
We even got Mom Yoder to wear a little fancy hat.
This was the “high maintenance table”. I wonder how much sugar they consumed.
Thanks Wava and Beka for putting on such a wonderful treat for my gang of ladies!
Parting shot:
A tender moment, Timmy and Boaz.
Blessings to each and everyone of you and may you have a
Happy New Year!
Comments (10)
What a lovely Christmas you had and all those helpers with the food! — Ethan’s bread is amazing! Blessings to you for the new year.
…………and a great year to you and yours too!
Family is a wonderful blessing and you surely are blessed. Now, are you ready for a little peace & quiet?
I enjoyed seeing your Christmas celebration.
Many blessings to you and your lovely family in the new year ahead! Thank you for sharing these pictures of your beautiful family time! What a delight to see you and your children and those grandchildren!
Polly…. you are such an amazing woman!!! you make coming to your home so fun, warm and inviting, I remember that about the very first time we came to visit you:)!! You make us all want to be your daughter in laws, and have you as a grandma to our kids!! bless you & love you!
There certainly was a lot of cheer in your home!! What do you do with yourself when the house empties out? Silly question! The guys and their knives reminds me of Father and his knives that he gave out to his grandsons. Do your boys still have those knives? Of course, I loved the tea party pictures and was happy to see great-grandma wearing her hat. An all around great post, including the parting shot!
Beautiful pictures of a beautiful family!
What a wonderful bunch of memories ~ loved the pics ~
Oh Aunt Polly, This has to be my all time favorite post you haver ever done. Love the silly pic of summer, soooo wish I could have been at your tea party…..and may I PLEASE use your penguin idea sometime at one of my girl scout events?! This year the theme to our Girl Scout cookie sale has a penguine for the mascot…..I so want to make these for our next staff meeting or something….too cute!!!!