Christmas Celebrations

In addition to the regular Christmas festivities, we were also celebrating a few special milestones. First, we wanted to recognize Grandpa Schmitz in a special way since this would be his 100th Christmas. Steve had a special ornament made for him.

And Carson and Ali hung it on the tree for Grandpa.

Then all the grandkids decorated Grandpa like a Christmas tree including lights, garland, and ornaments!


I hope he felt special for the recognition we gave him. We would later realize that this was Grandpa Schmitz's last Christmas. He passed away in January, 2011.

Another special celebration we had was Uncle Larry's 65th birthday. We played a fun game that Steve and I made up called "Jesus, John or Larry". We had a bunch of trivia questions where you had to guess whose birth year we were referring to with a particular historical event.. Jesus, John or Larry?? Whenever you got a question right, you won a Larry Buck. Steve and I stayed up late one night making these on the computer. We had way too much fun with this project. I can't post pics of the Larry Bucks in the post because I'm just not that savvy, but we had his face on a dollar bill in a few varieties, each photo-shopped to resemble the description. There was Hairy Larry, Scary Larry, Fairy Larry, Mary Larry, and Dairy Larry. They were a hit and Uncle Larry loved them! Happy Birthday Uncle Larry!