Christmas Celebrations, 2010

Christmas Eve at Mom & Dad's. Here Mom is serving up herself,
from a delicious array of food.

Jeff (mostly) & Heather made a delicious apple pie to share.
The two shepherd boys, Anders & Garrett

Jim & Erin Barnes with Wyatt & Garrett

Blowing out the "Happy Birthday Jesus" cake

Still a happy couple after 32 years! :-)

Heather & Jeff looking at Grandpa's new autobiography
that he gave us all for Christmas.

Wyatt entertaining himself with Gma & Gpa's tangerines.

Robin, Daddy, John Jensen & Uncle Elmer singing Christmas carols.

Our tree on Christmas morning

Christmas dinner with Jeff, Heather, Abby, Philip, Kirk & Jerry(Stevens)

The "kids" with their gifts

Jeff showing off his Nike golf balls & gift certificate

Abby with her copy of the book "Abigail"

Philip's new loppers have HUGE blades!
These should really work on the junipers at church!

Philip made this beautiful arrangement for Kirk.

The kids standing by the "light blob".
This is how we hung up the lights this year, all at once! :-)

I made a collage of pictures for Jerry from this year.
It included Heather & Jeff's wedding & his 90th birthday.

Abby modeling her new work-out outfit.
It was such a joy to be together with family members that we can relax with.
Such lovely celebrations!

Decorating for Christmas

I was feeling kinda blue about Heather not being here this year to help me decorate for Christmas. Then she & Jeff said they would come over the Saturday after Thanksgiving and help. Yahoo! At the appointed moment, Philip & Abby also arrived. I have NEVER had that much help! We did it all in 2.5 hours- a record!!
Here Heather is holding a goofy angel she made when she was in Jr. High.

Abby put together our old-fashioned angel chimes,
which I had not used in years-so special!

Lovely!

They all brought in the 24 boxes from the garage attic.

Here we are putting together our 20-year-old tree.

Aw yes, and the angel goes on top!

Ta-dah!

Thanks kids for helping us!
I so enjoy having our home decorated for a whole month!
I'm gong to invite our neighbors over for cider &
to see our nativity sets (we have over 30 now).