December 25, 2005. We spent our Christmas Day with John's brothers family, his mom and his sister Kathy at our house!! First time we hosted, Carol and Wilf couldn't come as they were going to be at Wilf's family place...plus I think our animals might have sent Wilf's allergies over the edge! But we still had a great time of opening presents...breakfast...church for some, more presents...and then a great big delicious lunch/supper. We shared our supper with my side of the family which includes Laura and some more friends, Mike and Megan. Then Laura zipped mom and dad off to the airport for their flight to Russia to spend New Year's with David and Erin. It was an excellent Christmas! Also on Christmas Eve we enjoyed our community Christmas Eve service and then some merriment back at our place. Stayed up way to late though watching different versions of "Scrooge".