Merry Christmas 2011

Merry Christmas!

Hubby and I started off our celebrating early in the month when we traveled a few hours to attend a Christmas wedding.

Hubby and I at the Christmassy wedding of a niece.

My Dad has done it again.  He hand carves an ornament for each couple and child in the family.  It takes him several hours per ornament. It is always one of my favorite gifts of the year.  You can see some of the past ornaments here.


This year's ornament

 Dad always tries to have the ornaments done by Thanksgiving so we have them to hang on our trees each year.  He was successful again this year.  The bear is laying on the black Friday ads as you can tell.


The back of the ornament.

Shopping and wrapping are done. Yay!  Hubby and I are spending a quiet Christmas Eve at home.  I have to cook a couple of dishes for tomorrow's family dinner.  I'm going to try to watch a few Christmas movies and read some Christmas books that I downloaded to my Kindle.  I will make our Christmas Eve dinner of pizza and spend some quiet time in front of the tree.

Tomorrow, we travel to my brother's house to celebrate with my family.  Probably we will spend the night with my son.  Tuesday, Hubby's daughter, husband and new baby will come to celebrate with us.  Wednesday we pick up a cousin from the airport.  He has been out of the country for a month so I'm sure there will be stories to hear.

New Year's Eve plans are not finalized yet.  We have been invited to a cousin's lake house and also my son and family want to come here so I'm not sure what we will pick.

Happy New Year!!!