Merry Christmas!

What a wonderful Christmas this has been - filled with friends, food, wrapping paper, ribbons, family, music and babies!
The festivities started way back on Dec 10th, when we went to the first party of the season: Bryan's 30th birthday party (old man!). Followed closely by Lara's condo party and Cathy and Suzy's holiday luau. Sam and I braved the last two parties with our friend Sarah so David could go enjoy Cats! as an audience member. We had a lot of fun, and Sam stayed in a joyful mood until 9 or so.

We kicked off the holiday weekend on Friday, with a party thrown by Ginnie and Kevin held at Andy's houseboat. Lovely decorations, good food and a cheerful Sam. It's always a treat to see Andy, Ginnie, Kevin and Karen. We missed Dave, Richard and Kim.

Christmas Eve was wih David's family at my parents' house. It was so wonderful to have both sets of grandparents for Sam and her cousin's first Christmas. You knew we would have pictures...

Christmas morning was spent with my family - with the all too brief appearance of Tony and Stacey. Alas, there was no time for any reindeer games this year. But we did make plans to play some games on New Year's eve. So we will just have to be patient.

Sammy loved her new teddy bear and Mariner's scarf:

Here is Great Grandma holding her wee one:

I will continue with Sunday's adventures in my next blog...