Friday, March 27, 2020

Christmas 2017

Our family of 4 always celebrates Christmas Eve a day early each year.  Our church starts Xmas Eve services on the 23rd so it works out great for us.  We head to church and then out to dinner and home to get ready for the big holiday.  

The kids loved the new jammies Jack the Elf brought them and were hoping they could fall asleep the night before the big day.   

We crammed our celebration into the 1 room we have access to on the main floor. The kids loved their new lounge chairs for their bedrooms.  

Kate was pretty excited to get the pair of shoes she had been wishing for.  

After our little Christmas, we packed up the car and headed to Nana and Papa's house to begin cooking the traditional steak and crab legs dinner with Johnny and Josh.   

Christmas morning was filled with more gifts and fun.  


Papa loves the Family Handyman Magazine.  

Great Grandma had a very special gift for K.  Grandma use to travel with this case on the train when she grew up in England.  It is in great condition and such a lovely keepsake for K to have.  

And Grandma was so excited to open up her favorite dessert.....Tiramisu.  

Lots of fun surprises for everyone.........

Including the sign Papa used when he hitch hiked back and forth from Williamsburg to Iowa State in Ames back in his college days.  

We all got a little chuckle out of that one.  We couldn't believe my Grandma kept those signs after all those years :)

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