Wonderful times over the holidays!

It was wonderful to have Ben home for the Christmas weekend. He brought his kitten, Memphis, home with him and Memphis just made himself to home. Memphis is helping Ben write a song on this picture.

We had a nice gathering of family at Dave and Becky's on Christmas day. We had fun doing a Chinese gift exchange. It took Uncle Bob about a half hour to unwrap this gift...it contained much paper and several boxes! Nobody "stole" the gift from him though!

Ben thought he had hit the "jackpot" when he got to steal all this Jacques stuff!

We had a great New Years weekend with alot of our family around. Dad and Mom, Gary and Diane, Lydia and Brandon, Calvin and Eileen, Alex and Kelsey, Danella, John and Anita, Linnea, Alissa, Jackson and Laura. We sure missed the "cousins" that weren't able to be here. Lots of fun playing games and of course eating!!!

This is Max. He was happy to have his blanket, so he could just relax and take a nap! He's getting to be an old dog now!

Here is Poppy. She is Brandon and Lydia's puppy and lives in Texas. She wasn't so sure she likes our cold weather. The wedding ring you see here on this picture was lost in a ditch full of snow the next evening! With the use of a metal detector Saturday morning, the ring was found! The guys lost some snowmobile time searching for a wedding ring, but we were happy we could send Brandon and Lydia back home to Texas with his wedding band on his hand!

Somebody we know is turning 50 later this month, so of course we had to get a jump on that and celebrate while so much of the family was here! Here he is in his office at work, after we all went up to "escort" him home!