MERYY CHRISTMAS EVE-EVE

First, let me say that Ashley came home yesterday and it is SOOOOOOO wonderful having all my babies together. She's lost 9 lbs. by our bathroom scales and so I gotta lot of cooking to do to get it back on! She's happy and can't wait to graduate from A-School! She brought her and her roommate's uniform's home so I can sew some more stripes on them for when they graduate! We'll be driving up there next month for that and can't WAIT!

We had a great, fantastic, wonderful get-together last night and I hated to see it end!

Last night was the only night I could squeeze in to have people over to see our decorations and visit with ASHLEY before all the chaos of Christmas. We had chaos last night, but the good kind!

Court and Mike's Dad played, sang and Ashley, well, she did what she does best. Made everyone laugh!

AND made everyone cry!

The biggest shocker of the night is when Lauren (MY niece from MY musically un-gifted side of the family) SANG! She definitely gets that from her Mama's side (Proksch) side of the family. She sang beautifully and we will be hearing more tomorrow afternoon when we gather at my parents house.

ANYways...Dad enjoyed feeding Boomer, loads of pictures were taken (that's Deanna on the left, who is Mike's sister's daughter)

here are all the Grandchildren from both sides of our family's..

Poor Alex has to represent by being the lone guy! I can see alot of my brother in him when my brother was little, but he has alot of Brenda too...he is extremely smart (gets that from his Aunt Joan!) HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

I have NO idea what Mike and his family were laughing at..

Here's Court and I doing our duet, "Silent Night", she sang, I picked. , for those of ya'll guitar pickers out there, Court and I were NOT picking different chords at the same time, I was flawlessly attempting my solo part while she did rhythm. It was magical!

And for Mike's Uncles in California, here is Grandma Terry.

She said my coconut cake was the best she ever ate! WOW!

That's about it for today. We have a HUGE get get-together tonight across the street at Mike's parents house. It's for everyone to exchange with Grandma Terry. I will have loads of pics from that as well.

Joan