Christmas Day

 Celebrating Christ's birth has always found us giving and receiving presents.  There are moments in each Christmas Season that I find feel more like the celebration of Christ's birth, but mainly this time, it was a feeling of gratitude for time with family.  Here are the pictures from that day.

This is towards the end of the day.  I think the pictures are in backwards order.  We were watching a movie -- or getting ready to maybe.

Trisa brought in a mattress for the movie and was quickly joined by Chewy and by Teddy!

Mike in the kitchen opening something? :-)

Trisa, Jake, and Kayli with their piles of stuff.  Derek's legs:-)

Cute Tia and the mess before it could get cleaned up.

Derek trying on Kayli's gift from Brit and Kota.

Kayli in her own gift.  That robe is really, really soft!

Tia and Mike opening their presents.

Jake and Kayli opening their presents.

Trisa and Jake opening their presents with Teddy watching Kayli.

Derek trying to dig the last gifts out from under the tree.  This picture makes me smile.  You can also see Dan's back and Chewy.

Tia and Mike.  Tia is sitting with "Baby Yoda" who is really Grogu.  

Mike and Tia again.

My Derek!

Chewy, Trisa, Dan, Teddy and Jake

Dan, Kayli and the Dogs.

Dan by stockings.

That is all of the pictures I have.  It was my camera which explains why there weren't any of me.  I got nice gifts too.  We waited for Tia and Mike before opening our gifts.  We just enjoyed our stocking gifts, and breakfast, etc. until then.  It's a good thing they showed up when they did.  Patience was starting to disappear!  We had to wake Jake up this year!  There was only Jake in the basement and no sleepover except Trisa in Kayli's room and so there was no race up the stairs or anything.  It was different, but it was a nice day.  We usually have Derek's sister Erin and her husband Russell and their family over on Christmas Day, but it was Covid year and so we played a couple of games with them over the computer and called it good -- but we missed seeing them in person!