IDEAS: holidaze, family pix and other happenstance

I seemed to have missed the holidays, namely, Christmas Eve and Christmas... I rather dazedly walked through them. Much of what remains is a blur which can be explained away because of the steady 102/101 fever. On the face of it... that wouldn't seem to be much but when you have a sub temperature like I do, which hangs out @ 97.2 to 97.7 degrees, it makes a huge impact. Having said all of that I did manage to take a few pics on Christmas Eve at Amanda and Sammy's inspite of the flu and pneumonia:

Amanda and Miss Porter

Jeff and I fell in love w/Amanda's newest family member Porter. She is a Weimaraner/Pit puppy. She has a velvety brown weimaraner coat and green eyes and is very sweet. Love her!

Cider

Landie's Jack Russell, Cider, also joined in with the holiday family festivities. Although, I had no appetite (where's the holiday fun in that?) Sammy's fish chowder was pretty fabulous.

And, speaking of fabulous... Amanda had created these to die for faux cookies, you take 2 Ritz crackers, spread peanut butter between them and dip in dipping chocolate.

O Christmas Tree

Emma, Landie, Amanda

Sammy, Emma & Erin talking w/Jeff out of camera range.

Amanda and Landie

Zach playing his Christmas video game.

Emma hiding from the camera... looks like the camera found her.

Emma and Zach looking to a higher source of inspiration.

silly Landie

I don't remember what Erin was saying but she certainly has their attention.

Auntie Amanda gave Emma the curlers she wanted for Christmas... so she had to, of course, set her hair. I hadn't seen these kind of curlers since I was Emma's age and used to wear them.

Amanda, Dave & Zach opening gifts.

Dave/Erin's gift to Samanda... Aims was laughing because it held what we call "rent a family" generic pics, that happened to be wedding pics, with the colors that Samanda used this past May in their wedding. Aims said that they should keep the "rent a fam" pics and just cut out Samanda's faces and paste over.

Poor Dave! This is how he spends ALL of our family holidays and vacations... repairing computers. He removed a corrupted program from my laptop. This pic is worth a 1000 words.

Glow sticks.

"the Fam" hanging out together... our fav part of the holidays.

Erin/Aims looking for the first time at Samanda's wedding pics that Mallory shot of the wedding weekend last May. Samanda's home computer isn't working so this is the first time they've been able to see them. They came out beautifully.

Landie, Emma & Erin

I think this was an Amanda story... only judging from Aims and Erin's facial expressions. Over the years Aims will be very animated in a telling of some crazy experience. Erin always looks befuddled, confused, bewildered, but only during the story. Aims will wait for Erin (who is very sharp) to get the punch line, a slight delay, then Erin will crack up. These two always crack the rest of us up...