Christmas - 2011

Merry Christmas and hope you've all had a wonderful day!!!

Mark and I are back home after a very nice day with family.    We went to 9:00 Mass, (while we were in church, we missed a call from Ryan - darn)!!!     Came home to load up Toad with food and presents and then off to Anne and Patrick's.   We settled in to see what the boys got from Santa - oh my....sooooooo much excitement!    We opened all our gifts, Philip and Annette arrived with more gifts.    Annette's parents, Dave and Judy and Dave's Mom, Dottie came about 1 hour later. 

The afternoon was spent enjoying the boys and all their toys, visiting, eating, drinking and being so merry!

We had our big feast (ham and all the trimmings) at 4:00 and later, pie (pecan and apple) with ice cream.   Just a very fun day to all be together and celebrate Christmas with family and the real "reason for the season"  Jesus' birthday!

Here are a few highlights:

The boys helping Grandpa open his big box?

Anne with her very favorite hot chocolate from Tim Horton's, but watch out....

 Liam has his eye on those!!!

Connor and his legos from Uncle Ryan

Annette, her Grandma Dottie and the boys playing cards

 (boys are wearing their new Blackhawk jerseys)

Annette, Philip. Patrick, Dave, Judy, Mark Pat

Anne, Connor, Liam, Dottie

THANKS, Anne, Patrick, Liam and Connor for a memorable Christmas 2011...