I took this picture of Mike today, and got this surprise!!!

This did not turn out the way I imagined.

Mike is doing his part for the 12 days of Christmas, "Five gold Rings...."

Aaron waits with George for the arrival of Santa. Aaron is not to sure he wants to be here.

Finally. Santa arrived and gave each of the children a silver bell.

Just a few pre-Christmas pictures. How many times to you get to see Santa sitting on a little boys lap? I understand Santa asked for an Island vacation.

This is one of four advent calendars wall quilts I made for the Grand kids.

And a shot of Mike putting up Christmas lights in shorts. He really liked that.

Little Josie is enjoying the warmer winter weather. I just like this shot, so Christmassy.

Aaron found the treasure map and took Grandpa and Patrick along for moral support.

The guys had a quick game of flag football. Nice try, Patrick!

The day after Thanksgiving we did a better job of taking pictures. Great form Angie, if you had gotten more help from your team mate you would have won!! Of course, I still say that bringing in that replacement player was a bit unfair.

It has been a whole week since Thanksgiving and so I figured it was time to post our Thanksgiving day pictures. Well, here it is, I guess I was either having so much fun, or so busy waiting for that bird to cook (It took an hour longer than it should have) that I completely forgot about pictures. This is the only one Mike took.

This year we were able to attend Patrick's first and last football game. His team members were as cute as bugs ears, or excuse me, a mean lean fighting machine. Anyway it was great fun to watch. Rah, Predators!!!