Christmas at New Year's

We drove up to visit my side of the family on New Year's Eve for the family get-together on New Year's Day.  All of my siblings and their families were there except for Fr. Brian, who was deployed in the Middle East at the time.  We had a great time visiting everyone.

Grandma, Emily, and Anne.  See all the snowflakes on the windows?  Anne and Catherine showed the girls how to make those, so it was a new craze!

Catherine and Elizabeth.

Here's what the boy cousins liked to do.

The littler cousins just love Anne.

She had a captive audience at story time.

The kids ate first.  Here was the main table.

Baby Isaac in the high chair and the little girls' table.

Grandma and Grandpa. 

After dinner was gift-opening time.

There was a lot of this.

My goddaughter, Emily.

Sweet Anne.

Patrick, my godson.

After all that hard work, the kids were thirsty!  Grandma gave them a special treat of pop.