Merry Christmas!!!

Our traditional Christmas Eve dinner includes salad, cold cuts, cheese fondue with bread, and chocolate fondue with marshmallows and fruit

Iorek Byrnison hangs out in the living room over Christmas

Christmas morning finally arrives! 

Cardboard boxes and wrapping paper accumulate

A refractor telescope for Daniel

Laura and Emma

Emma, Laura, and "the other Iorek Byrnison"

Craig opens a gift

A camera for Paige

And finally, after waiting for hours, the poor, neglected puppies get their stockings

They understand completely that the stockings contain their Christmas gifts

It's very hard to be polite when you're so excited!

It's now December 26th. The celebration fatigue is such that I've read two more really awful Dean Koontz novels (Relentless and Whisper) and am now going to watch Nightmare Before Christmas.

Merry Christmas to all!