Christmas 2011

Christmas Eve Dinner

 We had a wonderful holiday gathering at our Richland home for Christmas.  We were blessed to have Spencer and Chelsey in town for a week from Cheney.  Paul had to work Christmas day so we had our Christmas festivities on Christmas Eve.  We had a wonderful Christmas dinner with marinated pork roast, baked potatoes, rolls, gravy, Denise's special cornbread stuffing, jello dessert and sparkling cider.

Yummy Dinner

Spencer & Chelsey and a Great Gift

We then spent a couple hours opening the wonderful gifts from each other and family.  The gifts were very well thought out and appreciated so much.  It was a fun time to show how we care for one another.  It seems the best part of gifts is seeing the joy on someone's face when they open a present you have given.




Justin was especially excited to get a 35mm camera setup from Grandma Lin.  He is planning on taking a photography class at school.
 We also took the chance to go see the new Sherlock Holmes movie together and played some games too.  We weren't sure if we'd get a phone call from Nathaniel at the MTC but he did send a nice Christmas E-mail that was wonderful to get (see http://eldershoemaker.blogspot.com).   A joyous Christmas celebration at our home.  Merry Christmas to everyone! Love, the Shoemakers!

Camera!!!