A Very Merry 2019 Christmas

Tuesday, December 24 -

Thursday, December 26, 2019

The Yuletide season was in full bloom at Casa Contreras in Camarillo the past few days to be sure.

On Christmas Eve Jacob and Mary

came over to receive lots of gifts

Mary had a Christmas Stocking

chock full and waiting for her

excited exploration to commence

Here she goes!

The two grandkids were quite

busy opening their gifts

Hugging Gigi in thanks

for their new wonders

Anticipating their next

round of gifts

Checking our Mary's newest

toy from the movie "Frozen II"

She was happy as any

Disney princess deserves to be

Jacob sharing his joy with

his Mother Vanessa

The Christmas Eve present opening was a big hit, now it was on to . . .

. . . Christmas Day with the cousins

Max was eager to be my elf on this day and handed out the presents for me.

Leo was excitedly

waiting for another present

A cool UofW winter coat for me

courtesy of Mark Johnson

Nothing says Christmas to me like

Leo's ice breathing dragon

His brother Max got a dragon of his own, this one of the fire breathing sort.

Mike, Vanessa, Jacob and Mary joined us again late in the afternoon after spending most of the day with Vanessa's family.

When Mary arrived at our house

she was comatose . . .

. . . thus only Leo, Max and Jacob

were sitting at the kid's table for dinner

My sister, Linda and our Mom, Chuny

Mary was still asleep but not

for much longer

Mary was now awake and excited

to receive an angel pin from

Great Grandma Chuny

Mary wanted to know

what she had missed

A whole lot really Mary,

we reveled in so much

fellowship and food

For his parting gift, Jacob

wanted me to "Ding-Dong" him

Of course, Mary wanted a turn

swinging like a crazed bat too

Christmas Eve and Christmas Day were both relatively calm but of great joy to me.

A special THANK YOU must be given to my bride, Laurie for going the extra mile as always in getting our house to look like a Hallmark Christmas card and preparing the fabulous meal that we all shared on Christmas Day.

I hope that all of you had as wonderful day as we did!

MERRY CHRISTMAS!