Christmas Day

Finally Christmas morning, it came pretty quick. Our family opened our gifts on Christmas Morning. The only thing missing was Chelsea.

Alex is digging under the tree trying to find gifts that don't belong to Chelsea. I think all of ours have been opened.

We have dad bar-b-queing and John also has his grill going. Lisa and her kids came over along with John, Alex and me, Diane and her family don't come and have dinner with us. There's dad telling us food's done and let's eat.

Of all the family Vanessa is the one that don't need to exercise, but she's the only one doing it.

Lisa painted this picture her first one like this, and gave it to mom and dad for Christmas. This picture doesn't do that picture justice. She did it all freehand and she did an excellent job. She did another picture but it's in the drying stages now.

Here's Alex with one of his Christmas gifts, his electric guitar. Then below he is playing with his guitar hero game, while John watches.

Below is Lisa and Dad, Dad came and joined us for just a minute and while he was there I decided to take this picture.

I bought a new camera for myself, I've been trying it out. Not sure how to work it yet to get the best pictures. I have found a class that I will be taking that will teach me all about the features of an SLR 35m camera.

Chelsea called us today. I do think she misses home even though she says she doesn't, or maybe it's just because it Christmas and it makes her think of family. We just recently found out she's coming home, she has been saying she was going to stay, her and her roomate had talked about staying and getting an apartment. Now the talk is she is going to California, Arizona and Texas to visit her new friends. I don't blame her for wanting to get out of this little house and get out of this city, I hate it too.