Christmas pictures

Mishael, Mom and  Martha wearing our beautiful scarves from Peru.
Maria, Miriam and Moriah.  Maria and Moriah  accidentally wore the same shirt.
Just the girls, all 7 of them.

Joe and Miriam

Miriam is opening her George Foreman Grill.  I had Miriam for my secret Santa.  We just exchange names the last few years.  So we have a price range for each person.  It was fun to see what I could get for her for $50.  I managed an electric broom (Miriam loves vacuums) a Pyrex set of baking dishes, a George Foreman, a very pretty box that I told her is to hold her receipts.   I thought I did  pretty good for my budget.

Monica and girls

Rick just likes to make serious or weird faces for pictures.  In reality he was very happy.  I gave him these chocolate covered almonds that I made with  dark chocolate.  Moriah got him a book on the Beatles, Martha gave us a picture of the boys all blown up.
Our silly family picture
I thought this picture turned out pretty good for no planning.  

We are all there except Michael.  He was missed this Christmas.

Miriam and Jon being silly
Maria, Mishael, Gareth on Grandma's lap, Martha

Tony, Eric, Lee, Hans, James, Paul

Jon pushing the couch

Lee, Kendra, Monica, and Nettie
Martha

Joe brought our new couch up from Kalispell for me.  We had no couch in the living room and I finally found one at a store that was going out of business.  

But Joe couldn't back the trailer in the drive way, so Jon pushed the couch all the way up the lane!   


Martha showing James how to use his new marshmallow gun.
This one is the silly family picture