Photo Journal #49

December 25, 2015 - Christmas Day with the Garrett/Berrett Family

What a delight it was this year to spend Christmas morning and day with my children and their families.  We started the morning at Anthony and Jana's home with the Brinkman family tradition of orange juice before anything else.  My dad always said it was something nutritious in our bodies before all that Christmas goodies.

Traditional orange juice

White Christmas was ordered and received

Z was delighted with her keyboard and a few quick lessons from grandma to make it more fun

J could spend all day going up and down his slide, forward and backwards

Santa was good bringing some much loved and fun gifts to the kids.  An electric keyboard for Z and a slide for J.

Probably my favorite thing was making a quiet book for both J and C to play with

Boogie boards - the modern tech version of etch n' sketch

Anth and Jana sporting their homemade scarfs from a friend

The Christmas stockings had their traditional hot wheels cars for everyone too

Z can build to her heart's desire

The first creation, a walkie talkie

There were plenty of other gifts to entertain and bring smiles to everyone.

C was waiting to greet us at the window

We knew the handyman tool shelf would be a hit because he always played with it at the store

Aim sporting the Christmas leggings

Loving cousins

Z and C playing together

This was the best picture we could get of the 3 of them together

Then it was on to Aimee and Nate's for a few more gifts to open and dinner. 

I loved being with my family, that was the best Christmas gift of all.

The past year viewed here.