Christmas Dinner - 2010

My family left around 2ish so they could start the turkey (and so PJ could have his nap).  Once he was awake, we packed up and went to my parent's place - Here's their tree:

The table looked fantastic with its blue & silver table runner.  We all had our Christmas cracker and put on our silly hats.  It wouldn't be Christmas without it.  PJ managed to keep his on long enough for a photo...but it took alot of tries to get the photo taken before he pulled it off.  The food was fantastic - turkey, potatoes, gravy, stuffing, carrots, brussel sprouts etc!

My brother doesn't come to visit very often, so PJ is a little afraid of him (but knows who he is and can name him in photos).  After a long LONG time of trying not to approach PJ, Dean started playing peek-a-boo with him and chasing him down the hallway - finally, Uncle Dean is fun...just when its time to leave (and for him to go back to his city).

It was a busy day...and I didn't get to rest the next day...it was Boxing Day!  A date to be at West Edm Mall form 9 am to 5 pm.  I only purchased a couple of pairs of jeans and maybe 2 tops...so not the best haul...I remember having so many clothes that it all barely fit into the trunk...not so much, this year.  My feet were sore.

The following day, Dec 27, was our annual Scrapbook day!  We had a great time (Miriam, Jocelynne, Colleen & I).  We've moved to a new shop which is closer for all of us to get too...so that was fun too!

Christmas Day - 2010

Here's the tree with all the gifts underneath - Santa was a busy boy!

PJ was very excited to see the train all setup and ready to play with.  Santa is so smart, bringing him a train!

We managed to get him away from the train long enough to get dressed & then move onto his Santa Stocking.

While we were waiting for my parents, Dean &Tanya to arrive, we moved upstairs to work on the gifts under the tree.

We also had lunch and then relaxed for a bit.

Transition between scrapbook albums

Someone on the circle message board was wondering about a way to distinguish between albums by looking at the front page.  I had done something like this for my Cruise/Universal studios/Disneyland albums:

The 1st page of the 1st album looks like this - indicates what's in the album plus shows some pictures of things  you'll see in the album:

At the last page of this album, I mention what is is the 2nd album;

For the 2nd album, this is the cover page:

It was a great way to use up a lot of photos that wouldn't otherwise get into the album.

My very 1st album was done in 1998 way back when scrapbooking was just starting and there was no such thing as a cricut...and even though I'm a very basic/plain scrapbooker now...it was nothing to how plain/boring my pages were back then.  Anyway, my 1st album was actually 3 albums  - for a trip to Australia.  I used transition pages at the back of each album to show what was in the next one...here are they are:

At the end of the 1st book - see pretty basic.  It does show a picture for main sights that would be scrapbooked in the next album.  I (poorly) hand wrote what each thing was: 

Here's the last page of the 2nd album - similar concept:

Christmas Eve 2010

I'm finally ready to show photos from Christmas.  PJ liked his little tree (at the front door), but not as much as he liked it last year.  He seems so huge beside it compared to last year.

PJ wanted to have his photo taken by the tree every day - did the same thing last year, I don't know why.

This is the face I got from him most of the time

More cooperative here

On Christmas Eve, we had my parents, GJA's mom, my brother (Dean) and his girlfriend (Tanya) as well as Miriam (and her niece Leanne) and Jocelynne over for supper.

PJ, of course, was scared to come down stairs once he realized it was more than my parents that were over.

Here are some photos from the visitors before and after supper.

Dot and; Del

Dean and Tanya

Lee

Miriam, Dot and Del

GJA

Jocelynne

Miriam

After PJ went to sleep, we helped Santa with the stockings and putting gifts under the tree.  PJ can't keep away from wrapped parcels, so we had to keep them hidden until that night.

Santa brought PJ a remote control train set

PJ's little tree at the front entrance

photo with tripod and no lights

photo with tripod and lights

Happy 2011!

I'm slowly (but surely) getting photos from Christmas to put in here...just need a wee bit more time.  Once PJ is back at school, I'll have a couple of more hours available to work on the photos.