Christmas

We had a great time at Christmas, first with David's family (which gathered here the week before) and then with my family (which gathered, all who could, at Matthew & Jolene's new house in the Augusta, GA area) the week of Christmas.

Emily sings "O come, all-ee faithful, joyful and joy-umphant..."

A few pictures of our Christmas time this year:

Emily watching her cousin Elijah play Peggle

Katherine and cousin Natalie playing Hungry Hippos

The kids played outside in the dirt - fun!

All the Peters cousins (missing are those who couldn't make it: Abbie (Stokes) and Natalie and Adwen (Keller))

We did a "birth-minute" day where everyone's birthday was turned into a minute of the day (e.g. the birthday May 5 becomes "5:05"), and during that one minute, we celebrated that person's birthday, giving them a brownie (in lieu of cake) with candle to blow out, and everyone sang "Happy Birthday" quickly, and then they could eat their treat.

Waving good-bye to us from the porch (Jolene with Anna and Rachel)