Shannon had a great 4th birthday party. It was a joint party with Caleb Schans. (I mean they did it together -- there was no marijuana.) Caleb turned five.

Unfortunately, I didn't bring my camera, so we are waiting for friends and family to email, send a CD or a flash drive, or somehow get those pics into our hands.

Here are some pics I scanned of Shannon with her friends Emma and Kaylie.












































Shannon got 12 Barbies for Christmas and her birthday, which suits her just fine. She found a creative way to get them all up into her room on the night of her birthday. That is daddy's new nail apron.

We had a busy Christmas month. Ralph, Doug's dad came for a weekend. Then Jerry and Lois, Leslie's parents, visited for a week. Here are a few pictures of Christmas eve and Christmas day.

Here we are opening one gift each on Christmas eve.
















Then, we went to the Visniski's house for a very nice traditional Polish dinner.
















Christmas morning, we delved into our stockings and most of our gifts. Then, we went to the Groffs' house for a great dinner and some more gifts. These aren't exactly the three wise men, but I am glad they know where the real action is.
















Inside the Groffs' living room, we were stepping all over each other opening gifts. Thank God, we are all very close in spirit! It was a great time.















My favorite story from Christmas day is Aaron's choice of gifts to play with. He must have gotten hundreds of dollars of stuff, but the thing he wouldn't put down was the dollar-store breastplate and shield he got from Caleb and the rolled-up-newspaper sword his dad made him to go with it. Maybe we could save a little next year and just get some duct tape, newspaper and a little imagination!

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Merry Christmas! We really got into the season today. We hung our wreaths and went to a nearby Christmas tree farm to cut down a fresh tree for our living room. It was way cool fun.

P.S. For you tech-minded folk, I used Internet Explorer 7 to do this blog. It seems like an improvement over IE6. It has tabbed browsing. We also listened to Christmas music with another new Microsoft product: Windows Media Player 11. It looks prettier than 10, but I haven't put it to the test yet. We'll see.

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