Daughter of the King: Maine expedition

This is Ella trying to get Rachel to hide she had not had a turn yet so Dorothy was showing her how to get her up. She entertained us all that night.

This is Ella, her dad Michael(my cousin) and Dorothy (my aunt). Ella was counting and she had grabbed this coaster and it helped her find whoever was hiding and when she hid she would hand it to whoever was looking for her. She is so cute.

This is mom and Aunt Pam. Pam is the one who introduced mom and dad. She had been mom's best friend and had married my dad's oldest brother so when mom was visiting her, my dad came over to play with my cousin Derek and they met. Mom said there were no sparks whatsoever for either of them the first time they met.

Here is me and my daddy he was afraid to have me sit in his lap because he had already broken the table that was in front of us and he did not want to break anything else. Not sure who he is staring at with that look on his face. Looks guilty to me.

Here is me on Santa's knee on Christmas Eve. Santa is my cousin Darren who is actually only a year older than me. Every year we get together on Christmas Eve and one of the Uncle's or now cousin's dresses up like Santa and our parents bring gifts for him to give us. It is a great tradition the only thing is we are all sort of old for that but I still enjoy it. My cousin Andrew is sitting beside him.

Here is the Christmas tree before, you can't really tell but those presents were stacked up behind and to the sides and smashed under there, there was just not enough room for all of them under there when there really wasn't room for the tree.

Here is me helping Grandpa with the shirt that I got for him. While we opened presents he was busy taking all the tags and stickers off of his shirts and sweaters we got him. He is such a generous man he kept offering me half of his chocolate santa but I kept showing him I had one and that was all for him.

This is the annual Christmas picture we take every year in front of the tree, not sure how many years we have been doing this but they are always wonderful. Sometimes I crawl under the tree as a present. I am obviously the cuddly one.

This was the night after Christmas that we had snowfall again. It was coming down in chunks not a flake to be found. We were ecstatic about it.

This is our Uncle Turkey. He started calling us the turkey twins when we were little, not sure why but when we were old enough we started calling him Uncle Turkey.

Here is Ginger and her husband Adam, good people.

This is Bonsai, she is actually my cat but she is old and I did not want her to die on me. She likes to sit by the radiators, if you can't find her look at all those and she really surprised us when we found her up on the desk.