Friday, January 04, 2008

Christmas Pictures

Caleb relaxing in the recliner after a day of unpacking boxes.
This was Wayne enjoying his Christmas present with Caleb looking on. I had bought him a box of motorcycle accessories, all chrome of course. It was a great surprise. All the chrome was put on New Year's Day before he took off on the polar bear run. I think it is named appropriately because who else would ride their motorcycle on a freezing cold day except for a polar bear.
This is a picture of Caleb on Christmas morning in our skeleton of a house, we had moved some of the boxes around and had a few pieces of furniture so it seemed somewhat like home.


This is Wayne's dad and brother-in-law. Wayne's dad complains of being cold all the time anymore, so a sweater was in order for his Christmas present.



This is a familiar scene at my mother-in-law's house at Christmas time. Our niece Andrea is at the front of the picture with her husband David beside her. Jonathan and then two of my sister-in-laws, Tamara and Rosanna are in the background. Wayne's sister and family that lives in Colorado were unable to be with us for Christmas.

This is a picture of Samuel, our nephew opening a Christmas present.

This is a picture of Wayne's mom opening her sweater for Christmas.

These are my two sister-in-laws. Aytha was putting away food and Telesa was talking about something. When she talks she uses her hands for expression, can you tell? Love ya girls.

This is a picture of my mom enjoying two things. #1 Spencer is getting alot of hugs and kisses, #2 she is enjoying her new chair that was delivered in the middle of us opening Christmas presents. It was too funny the furniture delivery truck pulled up in the driveway and mom says, they must have the wrong address, Larry, can you go talk to them. My dad goes outside to talk to the delivery truck driver all the time knowing that they are in the right place. Mom was so surprised. We then had the wonderful pleasure of rearranging her living room later that afternoon. What a fun day.

This was my dad cutting the crown roast that he had made for our Christmas celebration, he used a recipe that he had gotten off the internet. The recipe required that the roast be covered with rock salt and cooked at 500 degrees, we were all a little unsure of how it would taste. The roast was so tasty, there were no left over's. His helpers were my brothers and sister-in-law.

Caleb with Spencer and Savannah, under the Christmas tree.

This is Spencer, our nephew, this was his first Christmas at Grandma's house. He is not walking yet but loves to hang onto everything.

This is Savannah, our niece loving the nativity figurines at Grandma's. She looked so pretty in her Christmas dress, it was red velvet trimmed in white fur.

4 comments:

Tamra said...

Enjoyed looking at these photos. Happy New Year!

Leah said...

Great photos. I thought it was funny about your dad and the roast. My dad had found a couple of pie recipes online and made them while we were there. One was eggnog pie and another coffee tiramisu pie. We weren't sure about them either. But they turned out very well and we enjoyed them!
I saw Telesa at my parent's church just before New Year's Day.

Unknown said...

Hey girl, your house is looking lived in, now--can't wait to see it! We had such fun at Cristmas time, as we always do when we're all together. Wish we all lived closer, and could see each other more often. Did the cheesecake all get eaten, btw? ;) Love ya

Aytha said...

PS the above was not Jon...