Christmas with Family

We had Kyle’s family over for dinner tonight, and of course, Liesl took lots of pictures. 🙂

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We decided to do breakfast for dinner. So we made up a couple of pans of baked french toast. I usually use my large glass baking dish for the baked french toast, but this time I decided to try using my nice new cookie sheets. They worked PERFECTLY! For one each sheet can hold more than the glass pan can, and for two the tops turned out crispy, not soggy like what sometimes happens in the glass pan. I am very happy with the result and I’m loving my new cookies sheets. 🙂 Liesl brought some fruit and then helped in the kitchen making some waffles. We boiled up and browned a huge amount of sausage links and fried up a few pounds of bacon. We decided to skip the idea of crepes. Kyle wanted to make those too, but I thought he was nuts. While we were finishing up the cooking of food, Laurel took the kids downstairs to do some crafts that she had brought, with them. After we ate, everyone just kind of hung out.

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Chloe seems to like attacking Alex lately. At least he’s a good sport about it.

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Granny brought a Pluto stuffed animal for Adam, and she also brought some candy for the kids. Lydia decided to share some candy with Pluto.

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Granny also brought some pajamas that she made for the kids.

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Since she was taking pictures, Liesl wanted to get a current picture of Kyle and myself.

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Ethan and Alex spent a lot of time together this evening, I don’t know why they are both making goofy faces though.

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Here they look a little more normal.

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This picture of Ethan reminds me of one of those teen heart throb posters that some of my friends in junior high/high school had…but he’s not even TWELVE YET!

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Kyle’s back has been bothering him, so he laid down on the floor to stretch it out, and he asked Jeremy to push on it. Jeremy didn’t do such a good job of pushing on Kyle’s back, so he walked on it instead.

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Before everyone left, Liesl got pictures of Alex & Sylvia holding Seth, since they weren’t here the other day when Lars & Daniel got to hold him.

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