New Years Eve---Punch is Ready!! 

Caleb face down! Snow was too powdery for a Snowman! 

Always snow to the face! 

Micah and Caleb in the snow 

This is our front yard, Thursday Dec 30th! Wish you were here! We have many visitors right now. So lots of cars, but everyone is at Sun Peaks, either snowboarding or working! 

Our back yard Dec 29th 9:43 pm! 

CHRISTMAS 2004 The Stockings are hung by the chimney with care......... 

Ah Christmas....it's all about the gifts!! 

Caleb, Cliff, Trista, John, Marissa 

Hey!! A Shrek Cookie Jar---just what I always wanted!!! Shrek and the Donkey talk everytime the lid is opened!!! I especially like the one about certain "bodily functions" and something Shrek saying to Donkey---Like "if it was me Donkey, you'd be dead!!" Great to kill the tempatation to eat a Cookie!!! 

Maggie was a little tired out after all the Christmas Fun!! 

Cliff gets his Dream Car---a Red Ford Mustang--Thanks Billy! 

Caleb loves his Dragon Set (even though he saw it in the trunk of my car before Christmas!) 

Sarah's VERY HAPPY with her new Cell phone!!! "especially because I didn't even ask for that!" 

Micah's happy happy happy with Game Boy Advance! 

Christmas morning started at 6:00 am so Sarah could get to work on time. Here is the gift Caleb(left) and Micah(right) got her for Christmas. I think she liked it!! 

We all enjoyed our yearly tradition of making a Gingerbread House. Cliff baked all the gingerbread, cut the forms and even whipped the icing!!  

Well Our Christmas Started Off With a BANG!!

Yep, a bang. That was my car creaming a minivan on the way home from work on Christmas Eve!! Not my fault (of course)! A young driver tried a U-Turn without looking. I'm sure he'll look everytime from now on. Fortunately, everthing was a slow speed, so no injuries.
We got home to enjoy Christmas with John and Sharon McNolty (Cliff's Uncle/Aunt), their daughters, Trista and Marissa. (You might remember Trista from our wedding--a young girl stomping on all the feet on the dance floor!) and Sharon's mother, Cathy Jones.
Unfortunately, Cathy didn't even get the chance to spend the night with us......she had a fall on my (stupidly placed) stairwell near our kitchen table and ended up with a fractured hip, spending Christmas in my lovely place of work, the Royal Inland Hospital!!!!
We actually, were all dumbfounded when Cathy got hurt and stopped, took time to pray, then got her to the hospital.
Cliff and I enjoyed a few hours of peace around midnight Christmas Eve. This will be the most memorable part of Christmas 2004 for me!
After that Christmas was relatively calm.
Sarah had to work Christmas day (chambermaid at one of the hotels at Sun Peaks) so I drove her up because we had a ton of snow that day.
As you'll see further down, Christmas dinner was a breeze for me---you just have to invite the right people for Christmas Dinner!!!

Cliff's Uncle John, and Cousin, Marissa are Rudolf's!!! Using Candy from the Gingerbread houses!!!

I invited the right people for dinner. Amy on the right, brought peeled potatoes and 3 different desserts, and there she is mashing the potatoes!! Sharon, Cliff's aunt is making the gravy, Cliff is carving the turkey, and Uncle John is showing him how!!! Notice Claudette is NOT in the picture, cuz I ain't cookin'!! 

Mina thinks she's the best present ever!!! 

Maggie tried to get in, too, but couldn't 

Merry Christmas to you All

We had an "interesting" Christmas to say the least!!
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The stockings were hung by the chimney with care......... 

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Sarah has returned to Kamloops!

Here is Sarah.She is 17.That's everyone in our family.

Here is a pic of Cliff, Claudette, Caleb, and Micah; the one with glasses; on our 2004 trip to Fort Nelson.This is on the old Alaska highway by the curved bridge. 

Cliff's sister and Brother-in-law.Angela and Joe.