Happy Birthday Jesus!

Today we celebrated Jesus' 2010th birthday!  Although it is hard for me, I've decided it's best not to insert any jokes here about Jesus' age.  :-)

Christmas Eve is a special day for my family because it is my parents' anniversary.  As of yesterday, they have been married for 52 years.

Mom prepared Christmas Eve lunch for all of us.  Here are some pictures of the kids....

Daniel was fascinated by Aunt Julie's camera.  Oh yea, Scott & his mom gave me a zoom lens for Christmas!  I'm looking forward to testing it out.  Hopefully I'll know how to use it by next Christmas!  Here's a picture of Laura & Rana.

Daniel got into Nana's drawer and pulled out a pair of her old glasses.  I wish I had my camera when he put them on...but this was a close 2nd.

And here's our princess doing what she always does....smiling. 

Now we move on to Christmas dinner.  This year, Scott wanted to cook Christmas dinner.  Here he is in the kitchen with dad....

It's weird seeing Dad in the kitchen....

While the menfolk were in the kitchen, the girls were playing in the den...

Wait, those are dad's feet in the picture.  Notice that Greta is sitting in her tent.  Here's a picture of Rana & Laura.

And another picture of Laura with Nana.

Daniel is playing with Greta.

I had hoped to get some pictures of everyone opening their presents but Laura kept insisting that we open presents in the dark.  I was able to get one picture before she turned the light off.

And off went the lights....

We were hoping to set up the tripod and take a couple of family photos but sadly we were missing someone very important.  My brother, Kevin, was home sick with the flu.  :-(  We missed you Kevin.  I hope you are feeling better real soon.

We had a wonderful night but soon it was time to go....

I hope that everyone had a wonderful day and that you each took some time to remember that today was really about a birthday.  Tomorrow I go back to eating sensibly....I hope.