Long overdue Christmas photos
I know, I know - Christmas is already weeks past, we’ve taken down the tree already and I still have not posted any photos … sorry - it was busy around here with all the guests, parties and with my trip to CES in Las Vegas. But now I’ve found a few minutes to update you all on last year’s Christmas events.
We started off the day by unpacking the package that grandparents Sieglinde and Peter sent from Germany. It was a combination of Christmas/Birthday presents and CARE packet. CARE, because my parents sent a number of impossible-to-get-in-the-US delicacies from Bavaria. Foremost a huge bag of mum’s yummy, yummy home-made Christmas cookies (thank you very much again - those cookies were certainly one of the highlights of this Christmas). Here we have the little one digging into the package and finding the most important item immediately:
We decide to open the presents from-us-for-us in the morning to give Pia a chance to rip open some of the packages. She loves the mess that this generates and especially likes hiding in one of the boxes:
And because we have beautiful weather on 12/25/2004 we pack Pia in her snow-suite and take our three kids (Pia, Max and Frisco) out for a quick walk behind the house. It’s the first time for her to really walk in the snow and she can’t stop giggeling. When she falls flat on her face into the snow, she discovers that it is almost like ice-cream, without a specific taste that is.
After the walk we finish preparations for the Christmas lunch:
Candice and Pia pose in front of the tree and we all wait for the guests to arrive:
Candice’s parents Betty and Jim, Candice’s sister Pam, Pam’s fiance Edwin and Edwin’s mom Norma all joins us that Christmas day. We spend the rest of the day with a lot of eating, even more drinking and unpacking of presents.
There’s a reason why the following picture was turned black & white: because of the “drinking” mentioned above, some of the faces in this photo have a nice red glow in the color version. I thought it was more flattering to hide the facial discoloration in this family portrait …
And finally here we have Edwin, Pam and mom Norma:
Thanks everybody for making this a very happy Christmas day.
What a LOVELY account of your Christmas! BTW, even Frisco looks like he drank a bit too much in the picture titled, “New Family Members.” His darling head is drooping over the corner of the doggy bed (or is that a couch?).
Brian just told me the website and I thought I would check it out. Sorry we missed you in Vegas. We were also there at the time of CES, but had a booth in the marketplace for that “other” show that was in town. See you Saturday for the Chinese New Year Party and sorry you guys cannot make the Valentine’s Dessert Evening.