My side of the family usually celebrates on Christmas Morning, but my Mom is recovering from cancer surgery and undergoing chemo treatments, and still at a nursing home recovering, so we didn't go to Dad and Mom's as usual, but had our family Christmas after Christmas Day... at our house. About 65-68 of us were able to come and celebrate. Mom was able to come from the nursing home too for a few hours. It was mass chaos, but a good time celebrating with Mom and Dad and all the family!
(We missed those of you who couldn't make it too!!)
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just SOME of the family in the
living room. |
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| Mom's enjoying the fun! |
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| More of the family. |
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| Good luck getting into the kitchen! |
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| And even MORE family... |
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| Mom and Aunt Shirley |
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Sandy opening a birthday gift too
Her birthday is Dec. 30th |
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An ugly sweater competition was
part of the fun! |
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| Harriett, Susan, Peggy - ugly sweaters |
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Aunt Shirley & Laura win the
Ugly Sweater Contest! |
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A fun, take away gift exchange took
us about 2 hours to complete! |
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| Chellie & Elf Jorden |
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| A load of presents for the gift exchange. |
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Dad (Papa) & Josh
hiding out in the kitchen. |
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| Kasey and BF Loren |
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| Just a little crowded! |
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Matthew picked a Packer blanket,
which was grabbed by others in
the mad Christmas exchange game. |
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| The dining room was less crowded! |
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Some of the kids hid out on the front
porch, a haven for shoes & coats.
Good thing there was a space heater! |
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Some of the girls couldn't take the crowd
and hid out in our bedroom at times,
watching movies on the tv there. |
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| And the gift exchange game continues |
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Jorden loved the snowglobe from
Daddy Kaine! |
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Loren & Kasey try on
the Santa hats. |
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The bass tuba was a gift
that many of us fought over,
I ended up winning it!
But, I gave it to my nephew,
and he is going to try to restore it. |
It was a hectic, but fun time, and glad that Mom could be here too! ... more of today to come later...
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