Christmas Photos

Grandma is decked out in Christmas ribbons while Erin wore her Santa hat and posed for a picture with her mom.

John and Jo posed for Erin, who has a brand new camera, and went around shooting lots of pictures. John wore his Beaver shirt , a relic from his Oregon State University days, while Erin, who attended a rival Oregon college, some years later, and was known as a Duck, reveled in the fact the Ducks have the winning team. Pat and Erin drove John's jeep over to pick him and Jo up at the Medford airport and she decked the car with Duck flags.

The tree is one with lights already on it and it was sparsely decorated due to the boxes being stored in the garage behind all of son John's apartment left overs. But Christine brought some green pine cones and white snow when she last brought us Christmas in May and Fred Meyers had some candy canes and tiny gold birds to add so it looked festive anyway.

As you can see, we had fun and lots of food from Pat's surprise Quiche, which was delicious, to ham, turkey, and all the trimmings. I wont go into the deserts as you can see from my picture,in which I am showing off my new wine sweater that Erin gave me, I didn't miss a bite.
A lot of those chocolates I talked about in one of my last blogs had short shelf life. Once opened they were up for grabs along with all the other Christmas deserts and breads. As my calender Maxine says this morning, "Christmas is over! You can go ahead and put away the fake tree, the fake snow, the fake holly . . . the fake smile." as she stands with a huge box that says "Xmas Stuff" . . . but you know she doesn't mean it as she readies for the New Year celebration and we can only imagine what she will say about the coming year.

So today, I hope that you find yourself with a big smile as you remember your Christmas. We still have work to do in making things a bit brighter for those who have so little . . . a New Year coming in which we can share what we can, along with a lot of smiles and hugs. So here is to a short work week as we head towards a Brand New Year . . . Let us all work at making it our best one yet. Hugs to all.