Christmas Day Pictures. (Well, some of them--from my mom's camera)

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Here is my niece Cora Lynn with her stuffed cat "Fraidy Cat."  She is feeding him (her?) with a straw.



Here is a "family" shot of my brother Jack, his wife Kari, and their kids, Caleb and Cora.  In the first picture, Caleb looks adorable.  In the second, he looks like he snuck a couple shots of tequila.  LOL.  Everyone else looks better in the second picture, so I put both of them up.  Kari looks especially pretty in the second picture.  (Not that she doesn't NORMALLY look pretty--she does.  This picture just seems to catch her with an especially sunny look on her face.

I really like Caleb's new shirt.  He does Rock.  LOL.



This is my sister Tammy with her husband Bert, her daughter Sadie, and her very adorable and sweet dog, Coconut.  Poor Sadie was the victim of a prank by my brother in law Jeffrey.  He had Erik call her, pretending to be someone from Target telling her that her cell phone number had been drawn in a contest and she had won an IPOD.  Poor Sadie.  She was so excited for a few minutes before she figured out that it was Jeffrey being a big dork.



This is my sister Kim with her "husband" Kevin and their two boys, Lucas (the shorter one) and Kyle (the taller one).  I put "husband" in quotation marks not because they are not legally married, they are, but because he is a pathetic loser of a husband who doesn't deserve anyone as sweet, hard working, and lovable as my sister.



Here are my adorable nephews, Kyle Johnson and Erik Borchert.  Kyle graduated from high school last year and Erik is a senior this year.  When they little guys, about 3 and 2 years old, whenever there was any kind of family gathering, they would run towards each other, little arms outstretched, crying out excitedly, "My fwend!  My fwend!"  Then they would embrace and sometimes kiss before running off to play.  They were so damned adorable that it brings tears to my eyes to remember it. 



Here's a good shot of my little sister Tammy with her goofy, loving little Coconut.  He is the sweetest thing.  He'd sell his soul for a piece of turkey.



Here is Kim with her two boys.  This shot is taken in my mom's basement.



Here is Caleb surrounded by his Christmas loot.  I gave him money.  My knee hurts too much to go shopping, and their Christmas "want" lists changed hourly.  Money is easier.  The tree behind him is my mom's "angel tree."  all of the ornaments are angels that she has collected or that people have given her.  There are some golden balls and golden garland on it too.  It is very pretty.



Here is Cora inspecting her Christmas loot.  She got a cute little dalmation toy dog that barks and growls.  I gave her a Webkinz dachshund, but she had decided the night before that she had enough Webkinz and didn't need any more, so she gave it to Grandma.  LOL.  She gobbled up the Lindor milk chocolate truffles I had put in the gift for her though.  Mom told me she LOVED those "chocolate balls," so I gave her a bag.  The other kids all got bags of M&Ms or Nestle's Crunch bells or peanut butter cups with their money.  It makes it more interesting if they have a package to open too.



My brother in law Kevin is sitting in the front.  Joni, my middle sister is standing in the back by the counter.  The leg and arm belong to my other brother-in-law Bert. Bert is a great guy. 



My nephew Matthew, the first born nephew, is in the fuzzy background.  I am in the recliner having just opened my blanket.  I've needed a nice warm blanket for a while.  My brother in law Jeff is standing between me and Bert.  Jeff is commenting on the fact that I got an electric can opener for Christmas while my siblings all got manual ones.  I told him, I am special.  LOL.  Niece Sadie is sitting on the floor, recovering from the information that her uncle Jeff had pranked her. 



I wanted a picture of myself with all my nieces and nephews.  Behind me are Matthew and Lucas.  To my left is Kyle.  Playing with my cane is Caleb.  In front of him, Sadie.  Between my feet, Cora.  To my right, Erik.   The only one missing is Kaylee, my niece, who has been in the hospital for 3 and a half months with very bad pneumonia.  She almost died and is slowly, slowly recovering.



Another shot.  Matthew has a less demonic look on his face in this one.



And all hell breaks loose as Caleb decides to throttle Kyle.



Here is my sister Joni with her husband Jeff, and her sons, Erik (the younger and taller) and Matthew (the older and slightly shorter).  Kaylee belongs in this group, but as I mentioned earlier, she is in the hospital.

All of these pictures are from my mom's camera.  I don't have my own camera cord with me, so I will post my pictures tomorrow when I get home.  Or eventually.