CHRISTMAS FESTIVITIES 2007

Christmas Festivities..in reverse order! When all was said and done, the rush of everything at Christmas time, Christmas performances, parties, shopping, traveleing, all of it, it ended up being a great holiday season! We spent Christmas Eve at Joe's sisters with Joe's parents, Grammy Sue, and lots of Joe's family. It was a great evening, very relaxed, and lots of great food, as usual at Caterina & Dave's! Christmas Day we spent at our house and my parent's, my brother Lance (aka Uncle Pooh) Michele, Kayla & Nyjell all came down. It was fun waking up together Christmas morning and seeing what Santa had left for all the kiddos!!!

Jake with his new "wave" skateboard from Santa....
Joshy and his "Dog that Skates " from Santa.... Santa brought Justin the "iCoaster"
And, HUGE thanks to Momo & Papa for Guitar Hero for Wii!!!
The boys & Grammy Sue on Christmas Eve at Cat & Dave's.....

Joe and his Mom, Shirley, enjoying a little Bagna Caulda... Can anyone guess what it is??? Pop & Shirley on Christmas Eve...
Caterina & Dave...truly the hosts with the mosts!!!
Our gang Christmas Eve....
Jake's 2nd grade Christmas performance...Jake is the "tall" one in the black shirt...that he wouldn't button or tuck in!!!
Jake singing....
All Lexi wanted was a picture with Jake...can he ever be normal????
Decorating the tree....
Okay, long story short, towards the end of decorating the tree and every ornament Joshy opened said either Mom, Dad, Justin/Mom, Dad, Justin, Jake/Justin, Jake....his feelings were a little hurt because he only has a couple of ormaments with his name. Apparently that's what happens when you are the third child?!?!?! LOL!! He was really heart broken about it, so next year I think I need to get about 30 ormaments with his name alone!!!!
And the stocking were hung by the piano with care....since we actually have a functioning fireplace we couldn't hang the stockings on the mantel since we are enjoying fires in the evening!!!