Thursday, January 7, 2010

Christmas Eve Traditions

We met Keileigh & Luke at the mouth of Parley's Canyon where they opened poppers from Aunt Christie then we spent our traditional Christmas Eve with the Kremer & Hughes families. It's good that at least once a year we have a chance to catch up on the events of the siblings, cousins and assorted kin and see the growth in the rising generation.





Grandpa Joe left his Night Before Christmas storybook at home but recited it by heart with only a few forgotten passages.

At the Turks home, we enjoyed sharing the real Christmas story with Maebe. As Sage read from Luke 2 & Matthew 2, Maebe added the pictures to this flannel board that has been in the Kremer family since the 1960's and is stained with smoke from the Samoan fire of 1969.

Marvelous Maebe

Maebe loves to invite company to her room for playtime. Here Papa Eric is captive to her requests.
The many moods & faces of Marvelous Maebe:




More Christmas fun with friends & family

Thus begins our Holiday to the land of snow:

We visited Ralph & Jill in Mesquite.

We joined Hazel for Christmas cheer.

We basked in the spirit at the PCMC Sacrament Meeting with Drew, Noelle, LeeAnne & Brandon. Afterwards we found this great ice sculpture outside the hospital.

We enjoyed Sunday dinner at the Turks with Grandpa Joe.

We had an evening of good conversation with the Williams.
(Congrats again to Simon & Kimberly and Clay too!)

The skiers in the family loved their day in the powder at Park City and made Eric's holiday!
A shopping trip for a new Christmas outfit was accomplished as well. Here the gang picks out lip lube at Victoria's Secret to use our $10 discount coupon!

We love and appreciate our family and the memories we are making.


Christmas in Utah 2009

Without great fanfare, but knowing a picture is worth a thousand words, here is Christmas with the Johnson/Turk/Wojciechowski/Williams gang.





Sunday, November 1, 2009

Pictures of Eric's Table Restoration

I'm so glad Brittany pointed out that I hadn't posted pictures of Eric's table restoration. He did such a nice job.