The family on Christmas Eve.  The kids had been patient all afternoon and were finally going to get to open up some presents!  Sam was, of course, hungry!

My sisters and I were happy to be having a "normal" Christmas Eve---Mom did all the food this year (last year we did it for her), and she put up two trees again.  It was a very Merry Christmas having Mom feeling so much better than last year.
One of Olivia's surprise gifts was an electric pencil sharpener!  She ALWAYS wants to go to my classroom to sharpen her pencils, now she won't have to!  After she opened this John brought out the unsharpened pencils he brought along for her to sharpen. . .she sharpened all of them!
Ben loved his Spiderman suitcase/backpack on wheels from Grandma Jane.  Now he doesn't have to pack his overnight clothes in Olivia's Princess bag!
Sam's first Christmas proved to be a great one!