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Christmas Day

December 25, 2018 richardt

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It was a quiet Christmas morning, the girls slept in to a reasonable hour. Chloe and I were up early.

Gillian with her Panda shower cap.

Gillian and Angela with their curling rock ornaments.

Gillian with the Japan poster and frame her sisters got her.

Claudia with her new wireless headphones.

Our family selfie shot.

In the afternoon we headed out to Lori and Dale’s. They got a new puppy, that’s Chase next to Harley who is still a puppy.

Gillian and Harley.

Chase is a Standard Poodle.

Brad and Angela holding the puppies.

Willow.

Angela and Chase.

The chaos begins.

Grandma with her kokeshi.

and her Jizo.

Lily.

Bear.

Emi, Gillian and Alex.

G-pa.

Willow.

Bear, Gillian, and Susan.

Gillian and Chloe.

Merry Christmas!

December 25, 2018 richardt

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christmas family

Merry Christmas to all of our friends and family!

Christmas Day 2017

December 25, 2017 richardt

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christmas family

It was a white Christmas this year.

Our tree.

Chloe finding one of her presents, she then proceeded to unwrap it, not waiting for everyone else.

The girls just like Christmas mornings of years gone by.

The girls with their Bubba’s, all ready for Aruba!

Gillian delivering Angela’s heavy present to her.

Another family photo.

In the afternoon we headed out to Lori and Dale’s for Christmas dinner. We also got to meet Willow, our newest grand-niece/first cousin once removed.

Willow.

Before the chaos starts.

Lily.

Bear.

Angela, Claudia and Willow.

Brad putting together the kids toys, he just wanted to play Rockem Sockem Robots.

The big kids playing Hungry Hungry Hippos.

Angela, G-pa, and Willow.

Mom and Dad with all the grandkids and great-grandkids, we were only missing Jesse. If Shanna sends me a picture of Jesse stating against a plain background, I can photoshop him in beside Angela.

Kaiden.

Grandma and Willow.

Fernando playing with Bear’s whipper snipper.

Goggles on for safety.

Bradley did a great job of carving the turkey, here he is getting some extra schooling from G-ma.

Lori and Dale’s new puppy, Harley, he was pooped by the end of the night. He was looking to play with Todd and Chloe, but they were having much to do with that.

Merry Christmas!

December 24, 2017 richardt

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christmas family sisters

Merry Christmas to all of our friends and family. Setting up for the photo.

Our Christmas photo.

and with Chloe.

The girls.

Gillian and Angela holding up Claudia.

Christmas Day 2016!

December 25, 2016 richardt

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christmas family video

The first one up was the dog, at 7:00AM she was ready to get up. It gave me some time to take some early photos of the tree and presents.

The girls made their way down around 8:00ish.

Chloe was right into opening presents this year.

Claudia in her bear onesie.

My selfie with Chloe.

A throwback to when they were younger and would get the same clothes.

We headed to Lori and Dale’s for dinner in the afternoon. Here are Angela and Gillian playing with one of Lily’s toys.

Bear had a piece of wrapping paper and tape stuck to his foot.

Kaiden throwing some wrapping paper.

Bear with some wrapping paper to throw.

Claudia protecting her head with a box.

The girls received onesies from Auntie Carolyn.

A squad photo in their onesies.

Chloe was good, she mostly ignored Todd and Marley.

Brad and Melissa got the kids the game Pie Face!. Here is the one time Kaiden played, after getting pied once, he had had enough.

Lily anticipating the pie.

Here it comes.

She was loving the game, especially when others got pied. She knew what was coming.

Auntie Melissa getting it.

Gillian took a turn.

Uncle Brad playing the game.

Claudia took her turn.

They had a great time playing the game.

Merry Christmas!

December 25, 2016 richardt

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christmas green screen

Merry Christmas to all of our family and friends.

When we came home from Church we took our family photo, this year we did it in front of my green screen. It allows me to do the above and to put us in Eygpt.

Or in Jamaica with Chloe,

Here are the girls encountering a T-Rex.

White Christmas?

December 18, 2016 richardt

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christmas snow

With only a week to go until Christmas, it’s looking good for a white Christmas (2 cm of snow on the ground). Environment and Climate Change Canada has a website Chance of White Christmas. Based on the records from the last 61 years, the Toronto GTA has a 51% chance of a white Christmas. The girls experienced a white Christmas 35% of the time from 1994-2015 (when they were/are kids) and Susan and I probably experienced a white Christmas 65% of the time between 1965-1984 (when we were kids).

Our Christmas Tree

January 2, 2016 richardt

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christmas

Here is a picture of our Christmas Tree this year. We bought it from Agram Garden Centre where we have been buying our tree for quite a few years. It was grown in Sherbrooke, Quebec. It was a full tree compared to past years.

Merry Christmas!

December 25, 2015 richardt

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christmas

Merry Christmas to all of our family and friends! Here is our 2015 Christmas photo.

The girls with Chloe.

We attended 4:00 pm mass at the Church on Christmas Eve, so we were able to sleep in on Christmas Day, gone are the days of the girls getting up at 5:00am. This year was a more civilized 7:3oish.

Chloe wearing her ugly Christmas sweater.

Twinsies!

We had Mom and Dad Swan for dinner. Here is Grandma opening her Fitbit. It’s game on to 10,000 steps.

Gillian sizing up her pjs.

The girls playing 5 Crowns with Grandma.

Our first dinner with out new dining room set.

As always, Susan prepared a great turkey dinner that left us all stuffed. With only Mom and Dad coming for dinner, it was supposed to be a modest size turkey. As Gillian tells it, once they got to the Longo’s, the temptation of a large turkey overcame Susan and they took the small turkey out of their cart and loaded up a 26 lb bird.