Merry Christmas, Everybody!

Hope all is well with you and yours...

It looks like Smokey likes his winter sweater we got him, although it did take a bit for him to adjust to wearing it.

Introducing... our new no-fuss, no-muss Christmas tree that you simply pull out of the box and plug in...

...whereupon I had to spend an hour fixing the top portion because the lights wouldn't work. Hey! I'm actually having to read the instructions!

We were invited to spend Christmas Eve at Pat & Teisha-Lyn's uncle's house (hope I got that right). Here is a family -group photo near the end of the evening. Lyn is holding her dog, Gizmo.

And here is Lyn and Pat 'standing on the dock of the bay, wastin' time....'

Dad and I decided to sit instead. We were waiting for the Christmas boat parade to start.

And so was Brad and Katrina (guess who was taking most of the photos).

Here is one of about 20 boats that went by, with Christmas lights and all kinds of decorations mounted on the boat.

We really liked the Santa's Sleigh edition.

This picture was one I took of the last boat going by, using time lapse. It looks interesting, to say the least.

So, as the group photos were being set up, Dad and I 'hid' in the hall, but it looks like somebody still snagged a shot of us and Dad took full advantage of the moment.

We had a bunch of fun tonight and it nice to feel so welcome with Pat and Lyn's family, we really appreciated the invite and we hope we didn't make too much of a fool of ourselves... Thanks again.