Christmas

We spent Christmas at home in LA this year due to the arrival of Thayne.  I was very apprehensive and worried that my Christmas holiday would be lonely, but we were lucky that Robbie's brother Adam and his wife Lauren and daughter Julia decided to stay too.

Christmas Eve we had Adam, Lauren, Julia, and one of Robbie's fellow residents and his wife, Christiaan & Stephanie, over for dinner.  In my family, the tradition is to have a yummy dinner followed by reading the Christmas story and singing Christmas carols.  So, to keep up with tradition,  we did just that.  I am lucky that everyone there went along with the plan.  We had an amazing meal, read the Christmas story and Lauren, who is an amazing pianist, brought her keyboard so we could sing Christmas carols.  It was a fun evening that I will never forget.  The only thing we didn't accomplish was to watch It's A Wonderful Life.

Here are some pictures of Julia in her Christmas dress and Thayne in the Santa suit that my nephew Sam wore during his first Christmas.  There are also some pictures of my Christmas decorations.

Christmas Day we went over the Adam and Lauren's to open presents and have breakfast.  It was a lot of fun to watch Julia, who is 2, open presents. 

Here are some pictures of Christmas morning.

This is Julia's monkey tail!  She thought this was fun.