Purcell Family Christmas 2012

This past Saturday we had the Purcell Family Christmas at Gale and Martha's house. It was a smaller crowd this year and we missed everyone that could not be with us, but we still had a great time. Before the kids began to scatter around the house, we got a cousin picture.

Corey and Maddie arrived after we took the picture. Maddie still has her touch with little kids.

Emily loved holding Benjamin, and she asked a few times during the day to do so. I see a future babysitter, Sherry.

As always, the company was great, Gale and Martha's home was beautifully decorated, and the food was plentiful and delicious. 

Martha had stockings for everyone in the Purcell family, which is a lot of people.

She creatively decorated the downstairs tree with pictures of the family over the years. She scanned old pictures (yes, before digital cameras), and it turned out great!

Here are some fun pictures of family that we missed. Though they could not be with us in person, we managed to Skype with all of them...21st Century Christmas.

I'm not sure when this picture of Hap and Elizabeth was taken, but I think it was before I started attending the Purcell Christmas in 2006.

Sam and Emily's 2nd Christmas

Uncle Ed always wears his Christmas sweater, and this year he got new green socks!

Luke did a great job with all of the kids, as usual.

Jackson played us some tunes.

Caleb was very interested in conversation with Brian and Valerie

We played a new gift game this year. There was a lot of 'who has ever' and present stealing going on.

This little guy loves to be cuddled by his grandma.

We were pretty excited to get this cool gift. Everyone needs toe tunes...

But it was a gag box, and it really had one million dollars inside, which was great too!

Ron and Kurt had a good arm wrestling match going on. Ron won, and you can see from his face he was pretty happy about the pain he was inflicting on Kurt.

Eveyone had a great time.

And we even got a Purcell sibling picture.

We had a great time and were so glad we could celebrate an early Christmas with everyone!