Christmas 08

Merry Christmas...Here is our white Christmas. We woke up to a smattering of snow here on the coastal floor!

This is the ginger bread house that I made, the 1st and last. Not my thing, I will stick to knitting.

Dana and myself on Christmas Eve. We went to the Christmas Eve services at church...the music was beautiful.

Kenneth with his much longed for PS3, so Ken who's too cheap now?

This is the horrible snow that we drove in on the way to Kris and Julies. To all you snow folks, it may not look like much, but it was slow going! We drove the van as it was the only car we had chains for, I don't think little red would have made it!

Ken, Julie and Michael.

Jeff, Kri/s and Dana

Julies Grandpa, John

John and Julies grandma, Dorothy...best know as Gram.

Julie and her mom Kathleen.

Kris, Eric Jr. and Micael, they said they were out "robing!"

This is the snow that we woke up to in Grants Pass on Dec. 26. We did make it home without any problems. Christmas was nice, but different without Robert. We miss him and hope he is doing well.

christmas party for work

Went to our annual Christmas party for my agency last night. We gathered at the Northwoods Inn. It was a candle gift exchange...where we get a number and when your number is called you can pick an unopened gift or steal someone elses gift they have opened. I ended up with a sleigh like candle that had holly and berries. So I traded with Juanita for her picture frame (candle party?) It's a picture frame with snowmen, I am going to put a photo of Kris in it from christmas long ago and give it to Julie. I had a lot of fun, ate too much and didn't get home until 10 pm.

Above photos are friends Dora, Patti, Nana (marge) and Juanita.

one kid left...

Well...first Robert went to boot camp on Dec. 8th.

Then Nathan went on Dec. 15th.

Nathan is the boy in the reddish pink hair in the above photo, he is Roberts friend that we adopted for the last few months. They decided to dye their hair before going into boot camp. Robert dyed his back to brown before leaving, but Nathan went with the "woody wood pecker" hair. The girl in to photo is Roberts girl friend Ashley ( she is very nice!) Anyhow it is very quiet without the boys here, but Kenneth is loving being an only child!