All three children were home for Christmas:
Brian from Boston,
Emily from New Zealand and
Laura from Colorado. It was the first time they were all home together since
Laura's graduation last June.
Brian bought himself a
Wii this fall, which he brought with him. We enjoyed auto racing! Brian took this photo on his new
iPhone:

Pager came over for breakfast on Christmas Day (note the matching Yankee Farm Credit jackets and caps):

The fluffy thing on the chair behind Pager is a piece of sheepskin for him from New Zealand:

Laura decided that she didn't like our home printer, and so she and Brian bought a new printer/copier/scanner for me for Christmas. Now I can scan items for the blog! As a Christmas present for Nancy and me, Emily made a wonderful scrapbook of our two weeks in New Zealand. Here is a scanned page from the scrapbook with some items that didn't make it onto the blog:

The spiral stone stairway is what we climbed inside the steeple tower of Christchurch Cathedral. (
See this post.) The "cage" is at the top of the 134 step climb—note the view of the city behind us. The ticket is from the
Christchurch Tram.