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  This was a special Christmas for us. We traveled to Rhode Island to spend our first Christmas in 4 years with my family... It was wonderful. Everyone came to my Grammy's house on the 22nd for an afternoon of laughter, presents and good food... It was great to see everyone. We have been trying to go up once a month but we don't always get to visit with the whole family as everyone is very busy. So, this was an exceptional treat, to all get together in the same house. Well this Christmas section is going to be several pages so I sure hope you will stay and visit them all. Enjoy. Click here for odds & ends photos of the rest of the day. 

My first page is going to be of our Niece Samantha. She is an absolute doll. She loves our Daughter Ashlee and my brother says she asks for her all the time. She is three years old and is just the sweetest little girl anyone could ever meet. Too bad we don't get to spend more time with her. 

Next page will be our Secret Santa. Now there are a lot of photos in here so please be patient. Our family is getting larger like all families. So what we did was to put everyone's name in a hat and at Thanksgiving we draw names. This way we only buy for one person but everyone gets a gift. We can spend up to $15.00 on our gift and if we get it on sale all the better. This year we decided not to sign our names, instead we put Love Your Secret Santa. It was a lot of fun and everyone enjoyed their gifts. I feel this gives us a chance to reacquaint ourselves with our family trying to figure out what they like and would use... 

This page will consist of Christmas Photos of Ashlee and Alan. I haven't scanned them yet so they will come soon. We decided last year not to buy the disks from Wal-Mart, as the photos always come out blurry. Hopefully mine will come out better.

Okay, so the tradition goes on yet another year. Photo's with Santa... (So far we haven't gone.) And we are bummed because the pony's were not out this year... Maybe next year.

Now for the Actual Christmas Exchange. This will be in three parts, Photos with Pa, Cliff and I, then with MaMa and Grammy. :-)

We are also very excited, we got to Celebrate my Cousin Will's engagement to a wonderful woman Shelly. They got engaged this month and we thought since everyone was getting together that we would celebrate them also. Boy were they surprised. Come on in for photos of them as well. 

Come on in and visit Lisa. She has a great site..