Merry Christmas

We are having a great family Christmas in Whistler.  Here are the four of us out on the deck in the afternoon.  

This year nine Whitneys and Charlotte's friend Tiffany all gathered here for about four days of fun.   Our days are filled with lots of great cooking, feasting, playing games, skiing, reading, talking, more cooking, more eating, and plenty of noisy talking and laughing.  Tiffany survived the Whitney craziness, always smiling and laughing, and a good time was had by all.

Our tree from under the power lines is possibly our best ever, a fir with three trunks.  Why?  We think we must have cut this same tree many years ago and since then the branches we left behind have been competing to become the new main trunk!   Re-harvesting the same tree seemed like a good environmental decision to us.  Maybe in ten years we can harvest the same tree again!

Christmas eve we sat down to a multi-course sea food feast and we started Christmas day with Al's famous Belgium waffles as we opened gifts hidden in our stockings.  We must have been good because not one of us got a lump of coal this year.  After skiing on Christmas day we feasted again, with Al's turkey and wild rice stuffing plus a variety of delicious veggie dishes by Charlotte and Tiffany.  A game of Cranium kept us laughing through the evening.

Now we have a week of festive house parties to keep us laughing into 2010.