Saturday, December 31, 2011

The Christmas Season

Amid the chaos of house reconstruction we had a very exciting Christmas Season!!  Please enjoy the menagerie of photographs!

Spaghetti Works and the Airforce Band 
Ruth Ann's treat!  We braved the snowstorm and drove to Omaha despite the scary weather!  It was amazing!







Back to our old stomping grounds to enjoy an afternoon with the Blackburns.
Whitney performed in the Grand River Valley Orchestra and Choir
Amazing performance!!




Our ward Redneck Christmas Party


Our costumes - Cousin Eddie on the left... Me - all I could muster was a holey old camo T, then we have three old farts, compliments of Ruth Ann who raided her husbands closet for the boys... And Gracie Anne - well some sort of princess and patriotic, camo sweat wearing critter.  Avery won 3rd place for his costume!



Our Christmas tree - 8 strands of lights and three trips to the store later!!  I think they are making those 100 light strands a lot shorter than they did 15 years ago when we first bought lights!


We even put up our little tree that we've used for the last 5 Christmases!  We had room!!


Christmas Day
Not many pictures - I fell asleep...
But there was a lot of this:


And a lot of this:





Monday, December 5, 2011