Karen's Mom and Dad arrived mid month and are staying a whole month. They are blessed to be in such good health and we enjoy having them in our home. Dad turned 80 this year and Mom isn't too far behind. Don't they look great?
We hosted our annual Chili and Chowder party in our new home! We loved having old friends from Plano and our new Prosper friends all together. The food was de-lish and the company was even better!
Our great neighbor Mike Koster and the Morleys, new church friends.
Prosper church friends the Platts and the Fergusons.
Long time Plano friends Rhoberta Blankmeyer, George and Heather Nail and Cindy Bell
Ashley had fun visiting with college roomate Kristin Willardson and her sister Jenny.
On Christmas Eve, we headed for the mall for our traditional kids photo with Santa. We've done this since Ashley's first Christmas. There are a few more people in the photo and for the first time, a second generation is included. Parker was remarkably cooperative! We actually had a harder time getting everyone else to pay attention and smile.
The photo Karen took looks pretty good, too!
Will and Molly looking picture perfect!
The professional image - pretty good looking family, I think. Nice socks, Santa!
Everyone had a great time!
After the photo, we all (except for Drew who had to go back to work) headed to the Original Pancake House for a yummy breakfast - Breakfast AFTER Santa.
Molly's Swedish Pancakes were as big as she is!!
Ashley and Sam
Grandpa Jon and Ashley
Beautiful Lucy and Adorable Molly
Perfectly adorable Parker!
We had a fun visit with an old friend from Karen's YW Prez days. Charlie Thiot served on Stake Youth Committee, along with Ashley. He's married now and has a really cute (and itty bitty) daughter, Keelie. I managed to only take pictures of the babies.
The standoff.
We also were able to celebrate in other ways of which we didn't get photos - school parties, a choir concert, an ornament painting party, seeing Christmas lights in Highland Park, playing games and visiting with each other. We've had a wonderful time with family and friends and appreciate so much all who add so much to our lives.
Up next - Christmas Eve and Christmas Day....
2 comments:
What fun times! Wish we could have made it to your party. Looks like it was a blast. It was fun seeing the Nails on your blog.
Tell Will hi from the Jetton's and we look forward to seeing him at our next den meeting!
And Lindsey was serious about being your personal assistant :)
We had so much fun at your party. it is absolutely beautiful! Thanks for including us. It was fun to see old friends.
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