The Kercheval Boys

Tom's Dad turned 80 on Saturday Dec. 29th but we had to postpone the party that day until the next day due to snow. We went up to Maryland on Sunday and had our Christmas celebration with Bill and Nancy before heading over to Bill's favorite restaurant where the rest of Tom's family would meet us there.

The cake decorations reflect Bill's dual career as a teacher and a minister.

Nancy and Ava

Aiden

Becky and Evan

Craig and Nancy

Garrett and Evan

Nancy and Evan

Multiple attempts at getting a decent shot of all of the grand kids together with Pappy.

Dylan on a stroll with Pappy.

Zonked Out!!

The Dylan Dance

New Camera Experiments

Tom got me a new Canon Powershot camera for my birthday and I finally read the manual this week and figured out how to use some of the special effect modes. Here are some of my test shots:

Cat Fight!

Fergus and Dougal hopped up on the bed while I was trying to change the sheets, and I'm not sure who instigated it, but they wrestled like this non-stop for almost 10 minutes. After they wore each other out, they cuddled up together and took a nap!

A Very Merry Christmas

Christmas morning arrived, finally!! The boys had to wait at the top of the stairs while Tom checked the living room to see if Santa came during the night or not... and also to get his video camera ready.

Still waiting...

Somebody is getting impatient!

Santa DID come!

Dylan opened presents by tearing off one teeny tiny shred of paper at a time. Tom and I tried to show him how to rip into it, but it still took him forever to get one unwrapped. After he'd opened 4 of them, he was done. He wanted to sit on the floor and play with what he'd gotten and wasn't interested in any of the remaining unwrapped gifts. Finally, Evan opened all of Dylan's gifts after he'd finished opening his own. When he got to the 'big gift,' a Spider Man building with a magnetized Spidey who can acutally 'climb' the walls, Dylan finally paid attention.

After the boys opened their gifts, we had our breakfast/brunch feast of cinnamon rolls, scrambled eggs and "fakon" (fake bacon, i.e. vegetarian) It was around 10:30 before Tom and I got to open any of our gifts, but it was kind of nice to spread it out like that.