New Years Day at the Mangos

Great Dalmouti or Great D L Moody as the children often say, was the game of choice for New Years.

Joan Weeks was there for the first half of the day, before she flew back to Denver.

Enjoying time with Grandma Weeks, before she left.

Michelle and Phillip enjoy a cuddle on the couch.

Everybody was relaxing after dinner.

Nice to have the Marandos there.

Cousins!! Elizabeth finally got Sadie to make up to her. She was very happy!

The newlyweds were in town. It was good to see them again. Too bad I didn't take a good picture of them.

Baby Phillip Morris.

The kid's table was monitored by Aunt Anita and Uncle Nate.

The Adult table. Plates of yummy food. We had a table set up in the living room and the family room. There were 35 people there.

Christmas Day

Mary with her new purse, headband and necklace. All dressed up and ready to go.

Jacob with his newest cousin.

Michelle and Reagan by the Christmas Tree.

My favorite picture of the day.

Nathan, note my DH in the background doing dishes. He's a good man!

Dad

It was a white Christmas! Dallas was smoothing out the snow with a rake he found - or something.

Tim was sick, so he spent his time in isolation playing on the computer in my office.

Mom putting on the dinner. Green beans with garlic and butter.

The cousins table was mighty slim this year. My children were kind of lost without their cousin age mates around. It was quieter, but less people to play games with.

Anita, Sadie and Nathan

Playing with Ian's new toy.

Some Christmas Carols and hymns were sung

Ian spent much of the day playing with a hanger. Not sure what his fascination was with it, but he really liked it.

~Mom

Cody Post 2

The tired parents.

Grandpa holds Cody. They both take a rest after breakfast.

Michelle takes her turn.

Cody

Cody again.

This is a Cody post after all.

Anita with the two little Santas. Almost got a smile out of Sadie.

Anita was extremely photogenic on Christmas!

Don't you think?

Cody again.

What do newborns really think about?

Karlyn took her turn.

As did Mr. Boots.

Cody was very cheerful despite or because of all the passing around and being held.

Time to go. Good-Bye Cody!

~Mom

WBF Christmas program pictures

One of the biblically incorrect angels.
Miss Leader

Karen prepares for her role as a shopper.

Mary and Joseph ready to go to Bethlehem. I know, they look a lot like Martha and Jonathon's armor bearer from a couple posts ago.

Another biblically incorrect angel. Cute though.

Phillip as yet another angel. Do angels really need pacifiers?

Apparently so. It keeps them from crying when on stage.

The tired shoppers.

Drew the Director, Did a fine job.

Drew the Actor, also did well. I think he was a bit big to be riding Mary's 'Donkey'.

Christa the Younger

JT the Narrator. This was only practice for his dream job.

Mr. Barefoot as Cesar Augustus's Decree Reader making his proclamation.

Mary, Joseph and Baby Jesus. I guess it was handy for the sheep to have a guitar in the stable.

Jeremy and Drew accompanying the men in 'Silent Night'.

~Mom