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December, 2006
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	This year, on Christmas Day, we all met at Pa & Ma's rented place down in Sun Lakes (this is what we always do on Christmas day). This year, we had Jeff with us (and Susan from Church too, in later pictures). Here is a fine picture of Jeff passed out on the couch.
	For the Christmas feast, the girls have their own table (the "girls table"). This and the next picture are that very "girls table". How special.

	Everything has an oppisite. This is the "boys table". Happily, Latiticia, Jennessa, and Sam also joined us for Christmas. Unhappily for Sam, he got stuck sitting with the little boys.
	Hey! This picture is all burry! How did this survive the director's cut?
	Pa, Ma, and part of the spread.
	LEft to right, Jennessa, Latiticia, Ne--ie Glu-on Flour, and the back of Susan's head.
	Susan and Jeff.
	There are a lot of pictures of present opening here, and there is not a chance that I am going to type something in next to each and every one. Enjoy the pictures that follow, free from my nattering commentary.






	This is a picture of Roo singing a solo.
	Ne--ie Glu-on Flour.
	The Joe.
	Sam and a Button.
	The back of Meg's head. Why is this in here?
	Jeff and Susan.
	More presents. Less commentary.




	OK. These pictures are from the pre-Christmas prepatory type goings on. Nice ginger bread men!
	Sugar cookie men. Much better than ginger bread men.
	Cookies.
	Presents under the tree (yippee).
	Jupe playin around.
	We had a really cold morning a few days before Christmas. So cold, in fact, that there was ice on all the windshields. We don't have scrapers down here, so I had to use a credit card to get the ice off of the windows.
	We usually have a Christmas Eve service at Church with a pot luck to boot. This year, I decided to cook up four turkeys for our pot luck. Here are two of those turkeys.
	I must have been impressed with these turkeys to take take another picture!
	These are strawberry muffins that Ne--ie make.
	This may sort of look like puke, but really it is stawberry muffin batter.
	Pa always seems to end up with bows on his head.
	This year, much to the dismay of parents, I bought every younger cousin (and my kids too) an old fashioned, metal, kazoo. At the Christmas Day, Sun Lakes thingy, we had eight kids with Kazoos. It was great!
	This is a find kazoo indeed!
	Button Boy got a new bike for his birthday. Nice (and picking expensive) bike!
	Button on a bike.
	Ne--ie Glu-on Flour got these steppy-things for her suburban for Christmas. Nice steppy things, Ne--ie!
	An action shot of Button-on-a-Bike.
	Mudgy got skates for Christmas. Here she is on her skates.
	Mooms.
	More presents...

	This is an upside-down cousin.
	Hi J.T.!
	Um. Huh?
	Button Boy with a present.
	Mudgy on new skates!

	This year, as part of their Christmas present, each of our kids received a set of blocks to build a castle. This is the arabian castle.
	And this is the mid-evil castle.
	The Greek castle.
	The Thai castle.
	Laurent received this paint by number picture. She did a great job!
	On December 29, we decided to take a trip to downtown Phoenix to visit two museums. On the way to the first museum, we happened across this statue of Pope John Paul II. The kids wanted to have their picture taken next to the statue, and so here it is!
	Our first mudeum was the Phoenix Historical Museum. This wagon is right outside of the museum.
	Button loves trains. They have this old steam engine inside the museum.
	An old mill, with a working scale.
	This is an old, working wagon seat. It still bounces up and down!
	Roo and an old foot-pump organ.
	One of the tools that they let you touch is the horse nail clipper that Jacob is flailing about in this picture.
	Pa & Ma couldn't resist sitting on the old wagon seat and smootching.
	This is a steam powered bicycle.
	Goofy kids and a stuffed osterich (what is an osterich doing in a historical museum?).
	An old cash register.
	After we were finished at the historical museum, we went over to the Mining Museum kept up by the Department of Mining and Mineral Resources (DMMR). This enormous scoop is solid metal, and was used in an Arizona mine.
	This is an old tire off of what must have been a really big mining machine.
	This and the next two pictures are of a really clever display that they have at the Mining Museum. All of the food pictured here (even the katsup and relish) are actually mineral samples. Everything on the table is literally a rock! Take a close look!