21 Petzingers, 2 D'Erricos & 4 Dogs!

What a fun Christmas! It was so great to have Mom and all 5 of her Petzinger boys and their families, including the dogs (4 of them) join us for Christmas.

They came from California, Oregon, Northern Idaho and Boise.

The whole gang

(minus Mom's husband Joe who is taking the picture

since we couldn't figure out how to use the self-timer on any camera...)

Thanks Joe

The cousins: Alisha, Erika

Joshua, Myah, Hannah, Ethan

Ammon, Bryson, Colton, Henry

Christmas Morning: Bryson, Anna & Colton

Why can't we get just one picture with everyone looking at the camera?

Now you know why no Christmas cards went out this year.

Anna's First Christmas and all she cares about is...

Yep, you guessed it. Her fingers.

Santa brought Colton a helmet...


Santa also brought mom one, but we don't need a picture of that.

Bryson's helmet didn't come off for days.
He called it his helmet friend.

Bryson, my little "worker" got a new REAL tool bench

(No offense, Fisher Price)

to go with this...

He can hammer nails for hours.

Need I say more. :)

Halfway through Christmas day, I remembered that I'd

forgotten to thaw the turkey for Christmas dinner...

I was in charge of one thing--the turkey!

So, it ended up in the bathtub

and we ate a Ham on Christmas.

The lovely turkey was eaten the next day, instead.

Henry, the dog.

Joe and Mom

Oldest brother James with daughter Alecia

from San Jose, California

getting their fill of SNOW! Thank goodness it decided to show up...

and did it EVER!

Joshua (James' son) enjoying the white stuff.

My two beautiful oldest neices, Alecia & Erika

David, Shelagh & a very excited Henry, the nephew.

John & Raquel

Ethan

Joseph with Myah

Henry...I love his smile.

A very snowy Hannah.

She and Ethan spent almost all their time outside.

Thanks to all the wonderful snow we got,

they got to build this

And play on these

Colton giving Henry a ride

Alecia started out like this...

but, it didn't take long for her to be on her own.

And at the end of it all, Bryson did what we all felt like doing.