Merry Christmas ..

I hope this posts finds you all well and resting from your very busy and wonderful Christmas ... whether it was with friends and family or just a quite one.

Our holidays were a bit different for us this year.  About 3 weeks before Christmas my dad had a cardic episode and ended up needing a new stint put in.  He had a stint put in about 6 years ago and there was some scare tissue that started blocking blood flow.  Once the new stint was put in everything seemed to be going well when he came down with a terrible bout of the flu that is going around.  It really kicked his butt and with him living alone and being 82, he gets kinda needy so my brother and I spent the few weeks before Christmas trying to get him healthy.  Unfortunately a couple of days before Christmas he decided it really wasn't feeling good enough to enjoy the day with all of us so we've moved Christmas to this coming Sunday ... we were concerned that not all the grandkids would be available, but after everyone got their work schedules it was a great surprise that everyone will be able to make Christmas ... so we'll enjoy family and a Seahawk win too!

Because we weren't going anywhere for Christmas the kids decided to all spend the night Christmas Eve ... we had Christmas Eve dinner with my father in law and then all came back to the house to play games and watch movies before heading to bed.  We ended up playing Christmas-opoly which was lots of fun!  The reindeer were the railroad replaement ... guess who got ALL the reindeer squares?  Yep, me!  lol ... after the game we settled in to watch Muppets Christmas ... Christmas morning we all slept in a bit and then enjoyed a morning of presents and breakfast.  I tried a new crockpot breakfast recipe .. never try something new ... it was an epic failure :(  but I still had more stuff for breakfast.

After presents and breakfast Monica made a lovely huckleberry pie and some dinner rolls.  She also made her family favorite ... orange rolls ... they were so yummy!

It was strange not spending the day with my dad, my brother and his family ... but thanks to my kids it was a very full fun couple of days.

Here's a few pictures of the day ....

 Chris made his wrapping paper this year ... very clever don't you think?

 They are all ready to start opening presents ...

Monica make her huckleberry pie ...

 Dinner rolls ...

orange rolls ready for the oven

dinner ....

 Terry got me lovely garnet earrings ... complete with teddy bear :)

 the aftermath after dinner ..

 Three of us were playing dots on our phones ... Terry got a new phone and was listening to music ... we had a good laugh about this picture ...

I've been stitching a little bit ... but between getting ready for Christmas for both my dad and us ... I spent my down time resting lol

I'm looking forward to a quite time and lots of stitching!  Boeing closes down until January 2nd, I took a couple of vacation days so I don't go back to work until the 6th!  woo hoo!!!

I hope you find your Joy in your stitches ...

I'm grateful for family and friends ...