Christmas!

We had more Christmas visitors than we expected. There was a family of dear nibbling on our bushes and having fun in the front yard.

 

The kids were really excited to open these very lovely presents from Auntie Perry.

  

Uncle Matt & Aunt Paige did a great job finding gifts the kids were excited to play with right away.

 Our big presents to the kids this year were swim parkas with their names on them.

 

 And a bean bag chair for Reed that he is now dragging all around the house with him.

 Merry Christmas!

 We had the house all ready for my mom's family to come for our Christmas celebration.

 Eben's gifts to me/us included these amazingly well framed and hung charts of Vancouver Island, the San Juans, and Puget Sound. They look incredible in the living room, tied in with the blue wall and buffet. We've always wanted charts to display and Eben put in a ton of time and effort into getting these just right.

 The family:

 A Christmas recital:

 We celebrated Peter's 70th Birthday, too.

 And were joined by Pete, Jennie, their kids, and his parents Arlin & Chrys for dessert and dominos at the end of the night. What a fun way to cap off the perfect Christmas!