Lancaster clan

It is great to be surrounded by family. I grew up with a lot of siblings and enjoy the chaos of the holidays. This past week our house was bursting at its seems, in a good way, with an additional three people. Linda (Mike's mom), Jeff and Rachel (Mike's brother and brother's girlfriend) came to stay with us and celebrate Christmas early.



We saved going to see Santa until Mimi came. For the entire morning I kept telling Liam that if he talked to Santa, he would give home a gift (the Santa we were going to see hand been handing out coloring books for over a week). Well, Liam kept up his end of the deal but Santa had nothing in return. Liam even walked over to the big red bag and peered into it. I felt bad and am banking on the fact that he won't remember next year :)




Rachel brought along some cookie cutters because she was so excited to make cookies with Liam. Liam had a lot of fun making cookies, especially the eating part! In fact, he wanted one so bad that he commanded us all to pray then after his, "AMEN" he reached for a cookie while smiling and shaking he head yes. Mimi couldn't resist the sweetness he oozed and gave in. When he finished the cookie, he asked us to all pray again. We didn't fall for it, although I think Mimi wanted to ;)



We think that Uncle Jeff was most excited about the gift he gave to Liam. He spent a lot of time and energy constructing train tracks whose infrastructure was rather questionable at times ;) Liam misses Uncle Jeff's expertise with train track construction and is rather bored with the circles and bridges I put together!



We look forward to seeing them again soon and hope that next time Aunt Karen may decide to come along!