Merry Christmas!

Andrew, my youngest brother, loves Christmas lights. This year he managed to decorate the front of the house very tastefully.

He also decorated the tree house and the back porch. The screened in porch was just added to the house last year.

Unfortunately my mom had to work at the hospital on Christmas day. My brothers, Matt and Andrew, decided to stay up late on Christmas eve and make a special breakfast for her.

They set up the coffee maker with the timer, and made several different kinds of cookies, with hand written cards listing what kinds they were.

Daddy and Matt watching TV.

After opening presents on Christmas morning, we did a lot of sitting around flipping channels.

Andrew gave Cody the dog a giant bone.

It was so large she could barely chew on it. And on the following days she nearly woke the whole house up by dropping it on the hardwood floors in the kitchen.

On Christmas Day, Andrew cooked the turkey and Sami and I made biscuits, mashed potatoes and a rhubarb pie made from our own rhubarb we canned last summer.

We told my sister Becca that she could make the vegetables but she declined.

My mom came home just in time to make the stuffing.

Sami carving the turkey.

Sami loves to use the electric knife. My mom offered to give it to us, but we don't make turkey very often so we decided to leave it there.

If you're wondering why the cabinets look weird, it's because the kitchen is in the middle of a remodel and the cabinets have only been primed, and not painted. They used to be a dark brown.