It was a Merry Christmas...

On Christmas Eve we went to Omi's house as usual, to visit with Ralph's family and eat pizza. It used to be German brats every year, that is the traditional German Christmas Eve meal. But these last few years, Ralph's mom hasn't really felt like fixing them and the only ones who miss them are Ralph's sister and her husband. The rest of us are quite happy with the pizza. Here is a picture from that night that could have turned out really nice had it not been for that mirror...oh well, you get the idea.

On Christmas morning we had our family Christmas morning mayhem.

Then after breakfast, we headed down to my parents for our 3rd Christmas. It was great. There were about 30 people there. Here are some of them gathered around to listen to my mom read the Christmas story. The food was great (and plenteous!!!), and it was great to see all my brothers and sisters and their families.
This week, Ralph is off and we have been doing nothing but playing the new Wii, it seems. Next week, it will be back to work for Ralph and back to school for us, but for now, it's nice to be lazy and play games and have nowhere we have to go.
God is so good to us!