One of Debbie's projects this past year (since she won't let anyone see her watercolors, I can't talk about them) was to make us some beautiful stockings as can be seen above.
Over the holidays, we made the trek back to Michiana (or thereabouts depending on your definition of the word) for a week and a half or so with our families. During that time, we had several celebratory gatherings and I've posted links to the pictures below (sorry none of the gathering at the Yoder house as my battery was dead and had misplaced my spare-in my luggage where it was supposed to be as it turns out).
First there was the gathering at Grandma Ultz's house
where there was much merriment
some card tricks
and we watched the Lions lose once again. The rest of the pictures can be found here.
Then there was the shower at the church gym
which featured some good soups and salads
and some highly competitive games. The rest of the gallery from the shower can be found here.
A bit later in the week,
we celebrated the Himes family Christmas
with some angels
who like to hide in cupboards,
go sledding,
and read with Grammy.
Oh, and Callie the wondercat was there too. The rest of the pictures I took in Sturgis are here.On Christmas, we went to the Mullenix celebration
where there was much food,
and many presents. Here's also where my camera battery died, but the rest of the pictures I got on that battery are here.
In our last gathering (after a battery recharge), we went back to Sturgis for the extended Himes family gathering,
which, due to some untimely illnesses, was much smaller than expected.
We still managed to have our usual white elephant gift exchange, but with only 6 people we had a bit harder time not grabbing what we'd brought.
In the end, though, a good time was had by all (even if Mom and Dad did have more leftovers than anticipated). The pictures from that gathering are here.
