Happy Holidays

There is so much more to Christmas than Christmas....

to me! Baking, shoppping, music, decorating,

sharing, serving, relaxing, sewing, reading,

entertaining, and SNOW. Altnough we didn't have

a white Christmas Eve or Christmas Day we did get

quite a bit of snow the week before and the week

after and it is so beautiful.

The week before Christmas my mother said she

was thinking about having few friends over one

afternoon for pie and ice cream. She invited

me to stop by....was I surprised when I got there...

she only had 26 of the ladies she invited show up!

What a party girl!

Dad hung out in the basement with the dogs.

Grandpa Bingham

Here are a couple pictures taken when we went to

breakfast with Grandpa, Elaine, Tab and Pam.

Christmas Eve 2010

We had 18 for our Christmas Eve Dinner! So Fun!

Stryker, Ty and Krew are ready for the

party....

This year our Christmas Eve dinner was based on the

traditions from Norway, since one of my ancestors

came from Norway in the mid 1800's.

The meal consisted of leg of lamb roast, boiled

potatoes, cauliflower, raisen bread, dates, figs,

nuts and "Christmas Beer" (soda).......it was a

real party!

The grand-children opened their gifts from nana

and papa.
We had a candy cane hunt...McCall won.

This is Krew showing some of the candy canes he gathered!

Christmas Day

Helmut talking to his mother on the phone Christmas morning....

an important part of every holiday!

Paul and Max

The smartest thing I did this year was "not" wrap

presents! I put everything into bags......this

approach sure saved me a lot of time!

Nana and Papa enjoying sweet Bode, Matt & Meggan's

youngest son.
Meggan and Bode.

Matt & Ty......Ty needed some candy!

Brian and "Curley"

Christianne and Tony