Monday, January 5, 2009

Our Christmas

The assent down the stairs. Usually youngest to oldest, but we reversed it to oldest and youngest first. It was Megs last time.

Big Dan cookin' the bacon. Christmas morning breakfast has always been our tradition. This year we missed the red apron, but somehow it turned out just like it always does.




How many presents does it take to cover a baby. She made sure everyone knew where she was behind all those presents. "Hi" she yelled to everyone. She loved opening presents.



The whole clan. All the kids got bears from my Dad. We had clothes made for the bears out of my Mom's clothes. It was very touching to see them open them and remember the dress or shirt or robe. It was neat. All in all we had a great time. Tears and laughs made it all that much better. Now I can cross Christmas off my list.

6 comments:

Meg & Josh said...

Christmas was so wonderful. The bears turned out GREAT! Thank you for all you did, and for being there. Christmas will never be the same without mom, but we did a pretty good job of making it through this year. One more first down...

jill said...

What about the Johnsons???

Nikki said...

Please tell me that isn't the basement of your old house....Is it really finished and looking sooo good. I have a hard time imagining it.

Your Christmas looked great! That baby of yours is one of the cutest things.

Faith said...

What a great idea for the bears. You are the best. Really cute picture of Gracey!

g&gjohns said...

How cute is Gracie?

Jaycee said...

Hey Jill,

Love the color of Gracie's dress for the wedding-- so cute-- and beautiful cake too-- Anyway -- I just started a blog-- it is 'withinthenorm7.blogspot.com'- you'll have to teach me a thing or two--
Jaycee