Christmas

With the new blogger system, can' t quite figure it out, but here are the Christmas pictures (obviously the family's a little to large to show them all!).

-Bradley anxiously awaits opening the opening of the gifts (not entirely true since he really was not as interested in that!).

-Many of the grand- and great grand-kids of the Mish clan.

-And then grandpa reads to Bradley.

-Justin's very excited about the holidays.
-Aunt Mary with two very shy and serious children.

And Alex does her "ta-da" moment.

-The Cederholm family.

-The Rasch guys.

-The Rasch girls.

Pre-Holiday

A few pictures from the pre-holiday festivities, basically involving the niece and nephews!

-Justin rockin' to his songs.


-Bradley checking out all the fuss.




-Alex getting away from it all...by fake sleeping (with grandma's teddy bear).





-Alex and Justin with the newly shorn Matilda.


-Maggie May with her new 'do. The dogs had much attention with all the little ones around!


-Bradley enjoying the chaos.

-Alex pretending to be a very small shepherd with a tiny staff.


-Quincy in his favorite spot - the dishwasher.


-Justin being chased under the couch by Quincy.

Weekend Warriors

Just a few pictures of the Weekend Warriors' party:


-The ever animated Troy with Bill.


-Troy and Sarah.


-And Santa even came!


-Sheryl, Kendra, Pattie, Katie and April.

Office Holiday

With Sheryl heading up the "Back 40" group at the office we decorated for the holidays.

-Jeff's owl caught an unusual reptile.


-Part of the lights strung all over the place.


-Holly all over the ends, too.


-One of those unusual reptiles trying to eat the lights.


-Two of the culprits.


-Sheryl really doing it up in style.


-Jeff capturing me, capturing it all. But with my camera - so notice the Altoids tin.

Thanksgiving

A bit overdue, but here's the picture:
Beth, Ray, Kaye, Raymond, Grandma, Grandpa, me and Mom...Dad, taking the picture...and a lot of food on the table.

Halloween

-Stephanie and I (as Bavarian Pretzel Wenches) extremely excited about three Abe Lincolns we bumped into at the Gatehouse.


-TEN! Yes, ten Abraham Lincolns. When the three said that there were actually ten of them all together, oh, were we ever excited! Imagine if there was a group of founding fathers, too!


-Lee as Jack from the Nightmare before Christmas. Very fabulous, to say the least.


-Jack and Sally. Who knew the Nightmare Before Christmas would be so popular!


-Team Zissou from Life Aquatic.



-Lupita and the rest of the gang from Mexico were there - hanging out and dancing up a storm!


-And we found Bertram again!


-Heather, the disco rocker.


-Our shoes as Bavarian Pretzel Wenches. We dropped pretzels everywhere.


-Hot Carl as Hooters.


-The band members at the bar.


-Carolyn (Snow White) and Peggy (Flapper).


-Carolyn, Peggy, me, Stephanie and Lee (with the mask).


-The Tea Bag Band at Horn's dressed as Gillian's Island people!


-Fun guy dancing at Horn's.


-Carolyn, Stephanie, Peggy and Lee dancing at Horn's.

Flint

Some of the picture highlights from Flint (MMA Conference):


-Downtown Flint tour - theatre. Many new and exciting things happening downtown. Lofts, renovation, the Land Band, Ruth Mott Foundation. Very exciting.


-The friendly frog at the Mott house, with a bunch of museum people!


-A bedroom from the wonderfully redone Whaley House.


-A tapestry from the Whaley House. This tapestry was done by Mrs. Dort, who was the daughter of Rosa Truscott Webb, who lived on the island and married Charles Webb an officer at the fort. Everything is connected to Mackinac.


-The Mott House and grounds.


-Phil in the M18 tank at the Buick Gallery.



-Me in the tank. Really, you would have thought that more people would have climbed around on it like we all did!


-The 1920s roadster (30s?) that they revved up for us...