Christmas 2012

 We started off our Christmas time at home together on December 23rd by having egg nog and reading the traditional story, "The Best Christmas Pageant Ever".

Nice and perky at first.

Drowsy by the end!

On Christmas Eve we gathered with some of the Wasche-side family at Amy and Bill's.  We sang carols and ate yummy foods.  Fun as usual!  We listened to the 2004 family Christmas tape on the way there and back home again.  Lots of laughs and memories!  On the way home (in Shoreview), the faithful old van suddenly started shooting like a gun up front.  We realized that though it was loud, it was safe to keep driving home.  So you get the picure...about midnight this big old van pulling into the neighborhood sounding like a revved-up vehicle!

Me and some of my siblings.

Our own crew!

Christmas Day we had a nice brunch.  Then we took our usual lengthy time of opening gifts one by one.  

The usual sponge football!

Dad giving out the gifts.  But this year he changed the tradition
and opened his own when he came to them.  This was my suggestion, and
I do think it was nicer this way rather than him waiting till the very end.

Daniel gave some great
Dr. Seuss books to others.

The stockings were a little reminiscent of 2004, when the
stockings were stuffed way, way too full!  Remember?  

John gave each of the boys a jalapeño pepper in their
stocking.  Timothy had switched the camera to
black and white.  It fits the picture!

Esther donned her new apron.
She said she needed something in her
hands for the picture, so she grabbed some
of her stocking stuffers.

Timo got a new pair of footsie pajamas!
He hadn't even planned it, but he was still wearing
his pajamas in the afternoon!

The gift that Joseph gave the family!  We have already been
using the microwave a lot!  Yay!!

John's new car from Dad...
a lamborghini!
(Can you see in John's face
that he is still recovering?)

We all loved the homemade white hot-chocolate
that Kelsea made!

She even made homemade marshmallows!

Yummy!!

And then, since SOMETHING! was wrapped in bubble wrap, of course it couldn't be thrown away!

The Molitor Kids and
Too Much Christmas!