Showing posts with label holidays. Show all posts
Showing posts with label holidays. Show all posts

Saturday, December 31, 2011

Christmas Magic

Just waiting for Santa
Is that an Elf filling the stockings?
The quiet of Christmas approaching.
 





Santa Claus's helper accidentally overlooked  the box with all the Christmas presents in it while packing...whence Violet and Lucia just had the gifts from the relatives.  Santa left a note saying that their present from him her under their Christmas tree in Boston.  Lucia, of course, didn't notice. And Violet was okay with the fact that Charlie and Greta had far more presents to open. 




A beautiful Christmas Dinner
(Sorry no photo...I was cooking)
Sing Christmas carols
After dinner and caroling we dashed out to see the Hampden Christmas Lights
(this is all on one short block in Baltimore)
A Robot Nativity

A hubcap Christmas Tree

 Amazing...a miracle on 34th Street!

Merry Christmas to all
And to all and good Night

Thursday, December 25, 2008

It was the best of times.

The Tobler Christmas is official over...now we just have the happy memories and several hundred photos.

The Tobler Christmas 2008 started out a bit stressful as most everyone was flying into Seattle on the same day as a major snow storm hit. The snow had turned I-5 into a parking lot and there was no way we could get to the airport.

So after a comedy of errors...a long waits in the snow...hour long rides on the transit bus..a wrong bus stop...a dead cell phone, no chains for the Explorer (they were stored out at Alderson's), a certain doctor who shall be know only as "Kyle" picking up the wrong pager at the hospital, delayed flights and one canceled flight...everyone arrived safely!

And the festivities began..

A snow hike to the Sound...Beautiful!

A service project finishing a few projects for Kyle.

Amazing talent!
Competitions of strength.

Clay pigeon shooting at Alderson's
Blessing our little Greta.
Enjoying the outdoor fireplace.

Making graham cracker houses.


Several nights of Karaoke...Toblers are amazing!

Clark can really belt it out!

Janet's first real snow and her first snow angel.


A re-enactment of the Nativity...Mary, Joseph and the Angel (?)The Shepherds. They lost their only sheep...he ran off with baby Jesus. But the production went on.


Cookie baking...
and decorating.This art didn't last long.

Christmas Day at Alderson's ... Magical!
Christmas Dinner... elegant! (Thanks John)

It was a wonderful Tobler Christmas 2008!