More Christmas Scenes:

Christmas scenes: Daddy, Wanda, Alan, Susan, Ginny, and Grandmother Dean

Aunt Susan and Ginny; Me and Ginny

Uncle Alan and Justin; Daddy playing Guitar Hero; Tyler and Ginny in their new robes; Daddy and Uncle Alan

Our spread: Turkey (turned out sooooo good thanks to my Nesco!), rolls, strawberry congealed salad, sweet potato crunch, green bean casserole, sweet potatoes, cranberry sauce, gravy, mine and mama's and Eddie's dressings, corn (nana's), and poundcake. We also had ham, chocolate delight (pie), & watergate salad. Everything was VERY GOOD! We were stuffed to the gills!

Joshua with all his dinosaurs in his dino playland tent

1&2&3) Robbie, Justin, and Sky showing off their skills with Guitar Hero 4) Joshua with another dinosaur 5) Tyler with the gift Joshua chose for him from the daycare holiday store - sweet! Justin got a mini football.

1) Pipaw got a PSP for Christmas 2) Mimaw and aunt Robbie got exactly what they wanted, too. 3) Justin got a Yu-Gi-Oh game for his new DS 4 & 5) Pipaw helping Joshua with his Helmet Heroes toy

1) Tyler with his Guitar Hero Nintendo DS from Santa 2) Joshua with Spike from Santa 3) Justin with his DS from Santa - all in all a bunch of very happy kids

Mimaw reading The Nutcracker to the kids. She also read from her childhood copy (in taped up condition) The Night Before Christmas.

1) Watching cookies bake (I like this pic a lot) 2) Mimaw helping the kids bake cookies for Santa 3) Cookie time!

Just alike! Robbie and Justin - reading as usual. Only Justin is distracted by something on tv.

1) Robbie and Tyler, and Bella, too 2) Granny Great with Tyler and Joshua 3) Granny Great and Joshau

1) Allysa with her new Littlest Pet Shop 2) Justin, Brandon, Uncle Kerry, Uncle Andy, Aunty Wendy: at nana's house for Christmas 3) Joshua, Justin, Tyler, Allysa, and Brandon 4) Tyler eating nana's pound cake 5) Allysa and Joshua waiting for some Christmas dinner

cupcakes I made for Justin's and Joshua's classrooms - didn't turn out exactly as I had expected but the kids didn't seem to care. Tyler chose to take fruit to his classroom party.

Pebbles. In the second pic you can see she has climbed up the tree to settle on a branch half way up.

So her name is after two characters: one from the Twilight series and the other from a video game (though I changed the spelling): Meet Bella Ryn!