This post is just going to be full of pictures I took Christmas day. The order is not always maintained, but I have made an effort to at least try to remember what I can of our celebration of Christ's birth 2013.
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The Beach House
Christmas 2013 |
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My side door display of Christmas cards --
don't you just love Christmas cards??? |
Our family decided (once again) that meeting at Dylan and Kelly's house would be a good place for all of us to fit together and enjoy a meal and each other's company.
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| My mom, Christmas day |
I struggle every year with what to get my mom for Christmas! This year, however, I am happy with what I picked out. I was at Schuler Books a week before Christmas and asked if they had any biographies of Lucy Maud Montgomery (my mom's favorite author). They did not, but the saleswoman got online and found me the perfect biography! This book tells the story of how Lucy picked out certain characters for her Anne books, as well as locations mentioned, and shares all kinds of interesting details. I was so excited to order it and thankful that it arrived December 23! I think mom liked it!
I got my dear Little Fellow the Fisher Price Little People Farm for his present. He played and played with it ... such a sweetheart!
Dylan helped Brendan unwrap his gift, and then we quickly assembled it and just ... watched Brendan's delight. It was very wonderful.
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Little Fellow looks like a tragic
orphan in this picture!
Quite to the contrary, this is one baby
who is greatly loved! |
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| I love this of Dylan and Brendan |
Our Little Fellow was SO tired that he was practically sleep-walking at one point and then he just crawled up on the chair and closed his sweet eyes ... not for long, however ~ this baby is not a regular napper.
We ate our very irregular and nontraditional Christmas feast ... wonderful chicken enchiladas, refreshing jello, breads, etc. And after a little while, Jesse's family was finally able to come over ...
I had saved one present each for Ems, Chris and Matthew to open up. However, on retrospect, these were not well-chosen gifts ... not because I wasn't well-intentioned, but because the maker of these craft/toys did not do a very good job! But ... I wanted to surprise them with a small gift that was not expected on Christmas day. Next year, I will just have to do a better job researching a better made surprise.
Little Kaity-girl seemed to enjoy ALL of Christmas. I got the Fisher-Price Little People house for her. She opened it up, but we didn't take it out of the box. We had enough of Brendan's toys everywhere to play with and decided to let Kaity explore her house when she was better able to do that.
I like these pictures of Jesse and Kaity ... she is a little sweetie.
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Our "Thank you Jesus" cake
We sang Jesus "Happy Birthday"
and enjoyed His cake very much! |
Grandpa Pahman did the honors of lighting 20 candles (one for each century) and then blew them out as well!
I wasn't so good at photography on Christmas day. I was pretty occupied with other things ... so Diana and Kelly aren't in one single picture. :( We also had a guest with us too (Patrick by name) who is Dylan and Kelly's godson (but he is grown up) and we had a really pleasant time visiting with him as well. We had plenty of snow throughout the day, so driving was a bit precarious (!) but I am thankful that we had a safe and happy Christmas 2013.
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