Saturday, December 27, 2008

Christmas 2008

Here are a few photos from the Bennett house on Christmas Day 2008. We celebrated with breakfast when Andrew got off work. Julia and Alyssa came over, as did Amy Grace, and Matt and Em made the long trek down from upstairs.

People here on Christmas morning:










































Emily was feeling kinda lonely, and got stuck by herself with the "old people" on Christmas afternoon and evening.
















































Things we did (in addition to eating, exchanging gifts, listening to Christmas music in the background, and enoying one another's company):



We burned some 40 year old candles from my mother's house. It took all day. My siblings had some similar candles and had agreed to do the same.




















We played Russian rummy and nertz.


















And even burned a Yule (sort of) log. We had to start the fire early since the temps got into the high 60s or 70s on Christmas Day:



We hope you had a Merry Christmas!

2 comments:

  1. Hi, I found your blog post through a search for “Nertz”. It is cool to see others that know about the game. I hope you don’t mind but I wanted to let you know about playnertz.com, the site for the National Nertz Association. There is a bunch of interesting Nertz information there and you can also find out how to play Nertz online there. I hope you will check it out. Feel free to join and also let your friends and family know. Thanks

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  2. Hi,
    Thanks for the "heads up" on your new posting. I check every few days to see how things are going with yuo. Love the pictures and news always. Missed seeing you guys but hope we can get together sometime soon again. Love to you all.
    Mom

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