Christmas 2007

Christmas 2007

The McCready Clan:
Cousins TJ (14), Brady(13 mo.), Andie Beth (12),Teagan (7), Lucas (5), Max (4), and Mac(9)
Can you believe we are outside sitting on the ground at Christmas?
Lucas and MaxieGrammy Margaret and Lucas, Teagan, Maxie and MacWebkinz are all the rage this Christmas! Teagan, Max, Mac, and Lucas go online to visit their pets' site! Grammy and Teagan open gifts.Terry's family... Boy do I miss him.

Christmas at the Arndts:

Lucas, Papa, and Mac

Lucas, Grandma Molly, and Mac

The Arndt Boys: Greg, Todd, Lucas, Papa Paul, and Mac

Lucas and Mac meet their new second cousins Brody and Colin. TWINS!!!! Look how adorable they all are!!!


Christmas Day with the McCready Family:

Cousins: Andie Beth, Brady, TJ, Mac, and Lucas

Tim's Family:

Andie, Brady, Beth, Tim, and TJ ( Taller than Dad at 13????)


Lucas gets Puff from Grammy.

Tj and Andie ( Is that Andie? I don't think I have ever seen that look on you!) There's that beautiful smile I love so much!
TJ- those aren't your drums!! Those are for Brady!
There you go. Show Brady how to do it! What fun he is having!

Grammy is giving Mac ideas.... is this a good thing?

Grammy opens Mac and Lucas's calendar! She loves it!
Brady and cousin Mac being silly

TJ and Dad (Tim)

Baby Santa (Brady)



Christmas Eve 2007 : The boys got to open one present each after the Children's Mass and Dinner.

The Arndt Family Christmas Photo 2007



Christmas Morning:

The most impoartant gift for both: LEGOS!! Mac got a huge Star Wars ship and Lucas got Hogwarts Castle from Harry Potter.

Kebbie the Reindeer ( Wbkinz!)

St. Brigid Christmas Concert 2007

Mac (in the center Gray shirt)

Catherine Kovalchin

Neighbors Christmas Party

Our Baronscourt Neighbor's Christmas Party

This was mostly our euchre club members from the neighborhood and our second year organizing a progessive dinner. This year THe Morello' s hosted the appetizers, the Hastings hosted the dinner portion, and we hosted the desserts. I didn't get my camera out until we got back to our house, but you can see how much fun we had in these photos!

The Girls!!! The only one missing was Kristin Hastings. She had alreday left for the evening because she didn't feel well... probably exhausted after cooking all that delicious Mexican food for dinner! The Guys! Well 2 of them walked away before we were finished! (DAN and Troy!) The two neighborhood models... Cecelia and Debbie!!

Sally and John Kovalchin

Loucenda and Steve Teter ( with Bob)
Alan and Fiona Travis and Carolyn Clark
Cecelia, Debbie, Doc, Kristen ( and Bob)

Warrena and Greg
Martha and Dan Pugh

Cecelia and Antonio Morello

And Bob...

Our Christmas Tree

Cutting Down our own Christmas Tree
So we thought... "what a warm family memory this would be and how fun!"
Well, it certainly was a family memory!!
The tree farm was actually a "former" tree farm that the previous owners started and then promptly gave up on. It has been left for the last 13 years, on it's own! As you can tell from the photos, these trees were literally growing on top of each other. It was very difficult to get a good look at them.
Finally I saw this one. It looked good, or maybe it was just the only one I could really get a good look at since it was right in the front!!!
Anyway once we got it home and set in the standing, it was obvious that this one of the most hideos trees of all time! Yes it was large! About 12 ft. tall, but it was also very WIDE ( about 6 feet) and it covered up the fire place! But it also had huge gaps between branches. Worst of all- the trunk has scoliosis!!!! You can see in this first picture just how tall it is. Greg is about 6'1 1/2".
And we're cutting...And we're done!!! That took all of 15 seconds!Naked Tree Here is where you can see the scoliosis- follow the trunk up the tree starting at the bottom!
And here, fully decorated you can really see the gaps bertween branches.

But .... hey.... it was FREE!!!!!

Thanksgiving 2007

Thanksgiving at Grammy Margaret's Cousins: TJ -14, Andie Beth- 12, Brady- 13 months, Lucas- 5, and Mac- 9.

Playing with cousin Brady at his house!

Mac and Brady reading.

Grammy and Brady reading.

Lucas and Brady playing basketball.

Mac and Brady