Christmas Day

This year we began Christmas day with church, which I thought was a wonderful way to begin the day! It would be nice to have Christmas on a Sunday every year!

According to tradition we had lunch at T-Ruthie's house and visited with her. It was nice to see and talk to her again!

Felicity, Chariti, Hannah and Seth playing Uno while eating their dessert.

I love Chariti's face in this picture! So adorable! 

I remember being that little and feeling that excited about Christmas gifts now I'm seeing that kind of excitement in my little siblings! Time does fly by so quickly.

T-Ruthie(Dad's sister) with some of her nieces and nephew.

There's the rest of her nieces. :) 

We love you T-Ruth!!!

After spending time with T-Ruth we went home and opened the presents for us from our church family and each other.

 Sarah was so sweet and thoughtful to give us such a nice present!

Thank you Sarah!

 Mom told the little kids that she wanted a small camera to be able to keep in her pocketbook and take with her wherever she went so when they went Christmas shopping with Dad they told him and he got her a Nikon Coolpix S3100! It's just the perfect size!

Mom's gift to Dad, 

he had asked for Cologne. We knew that's what he wanted so Mom went out and got him some! 

Aww Momma and her boy. He makes her smile :) especially with his cozy, new robe on!

hmmm.....mystery present for Mom!

Ahhhh....laughter ensues...

Examining her new gift.

We've listened to it probably about a 100 times so far, I think I can say with confidence Mom likes her gift! lol :)

Senior discount, you know. Private joke! ;)

Wow, Stephanie that's one impressive stocking! Looks like a hockey stick.

Over the knee socks!!! Never have to wear nylons again! Yippee!

The Fournier's invited us over for later that day and we always love spending time with the Fournier's!
So we went over and spent the rest of Christmas day with them! This year, our church family was more involved in our Christmas and I thought that was really awesome!

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The next day, Monday morning

Felicity, Chariti, Hannah and Tabitha used the new waffle maker that T-Ruth gave us to make yummy whole wheat waffles for breakfast! This is a Mello special breakfast comprised of Dad's homefries, Tabitha's waffles topped with cottage cheese, strawberries and Stephanie's fried bananas with 100% pure maple syrup drizzled on top and a side of bacon oh yeah, it's sweeet!

Hannah's mickey mouse plate, neatly organized, no one food is allowed to touch the other. :) 

Hannah took this picture because she liked how her plate looked. 

Christine Kuszewski made Mom this cute and pretty little tea cozy! Mom has always wanted a tea cozy and this one is so cute! She loved it! 

Thank you Christine!

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Thank you Lord for such a nice and enjoyable Christmas! And thank you for our church family and the time that we were able to spend with them this year!