Second Christmas

Since family lives at some distance, and have their own family traditions being established, we find ourselves working hard to establish a tradition that gets us all together for a Christmas celebration.

We decided to call it Second Christmas and hold it somewhere between Christmas and New Year's.  It fell on New Year's Eve this year.

(A view of the tree from the bottom up)

Here at Number 10 we celebrated family Christmas Christmas Day and it was the first year the twins were truly aware of the gifts.  They weren't happy with visiting Santa but helped me with  the cookies and milk treat, and listened while I told them how Santa was going to bring them each a gift that night.  It's not like the year Miki tried to go to bed at 3 p.m. so Christmas Day would hurry up and get here but they were feeling a little excitement.

I don't have a lot of pictures from Christmas as my new camera lens got hung up in the Christmas mail but here's a couple from the Day.    My most favorite Nativity.  The faces of the children are priceless.

A sleepy Eddie with Mater, Eddie on 2nd Christmas with building toys and Zoe with her doll house and a pretty red skirt that plays Jingle Bell Rock, what sheer heaven.

On 2nd Christmas all the packages containing "clothes" had arrived from family and Eddie was getting a bit distraught worrying where the toys were.  Thanks goodness for the building toys. Mom sure appreciated all the thoughtful winter clothes!!  for all of them.  Angie starts her job on Monday the 4th.