Christmas!!

I didn't take a lot of photos on Christmas Day because we were all involved with the cat (and trying to keep the dog away from the cat!) but we did have our usual fun with the Bentleys on Christmas Eve.

Hannah still sort of believes in the magic of Christmas and Santa and all that (especially since we have the you-must-believe-if-you-want-to-receive rule!) but didn't want to sit on Santa's lap. Until we got to Aunt Terry and Uncle Ray's house where luckily, there was the perfect Santa for her to sit on!

It's just not a Garrity Christmas celebration without crackers ... here's Lizzie wearing her crown:

Uncle Ray (and Casey) taught Hannah and Lizzie a new fist bump sequence that goes something like bump, explode, talk about it (pictured below is the talk about it part). So our Christmas Eve was educational, too!

 And, of course, no modern-day gathering is complete without someone checking their electronics. Max was smiling for the photo though, so all was good!

Christmas Day was a lot of fun for us (I have to admit to being verrrrrry tired since I was up much of the night worried that the dog would discover the cat in the closet. He barked his head off at 4 a.m. and when I checked on him he was actually NOT barking at the cat who was about two feet away from him in the closet, but rather the neighbor's light up reindeer that had been there for weeks. Good thing for him, he's handsome.

So first, here's our feast. We had turkey, stuffing (terrible -- made it from a bag of pre-seasoned breadcrumbs and won't be doing that again), cranberry sauce, turnip, mashed potatoes, glop (that's the green bean casserole but you add canned asparagus instead of green beans), sweet potatoes with cinnamon, and creamed onions. Dessert was cookies and pumpkin pie. It was all delicious (except for the stuffing) if I do say so myself.

And last but not least, here are pictures of various family members with Bella:

 

Next up is the week AFTER Christmas!