Christmas Day, 2021

After opening gifts and taking some time to enjoy the spirit of Christmas morning, Lisa, Craig, and I began getting ready for Christmas dinner. We always eat around noon and while we did not expect a huge crowd like the one we had at Thanksgiving, we did have my sisters and brother-in-law coming.

I decided to set a formal table using my china 

and my mother's sterling silverware.

Craig cooked both a ham and a standing rib roast, and then we had the usual Isenbarger holiday fare of corn casserole, green bean casserole, garlic mashed potatoes, Christmas Jello, and more. And pie. Lots of pie.

Lisa wanted photos with her Aunt Leslie,

Aunt Jenny,

Uncle Rick,

and me! (With Nash photo bombing. And, we never did get one of her with her dad, durn it!)

My sisters and me.

After dinner we played several games including Rudolph Bingo (Les and Rick are HUGE Rudolph fans.)

I keep a dish of prizes in a bowl for the grandkids and Jenny picked a snowman top after she won a round.

We may have argued a bit over the onion crunchies for the green bean casserole.

We also played Christmas songs with the handbell set that Emily got me for Christmas.

We actually sounded pretty good!

Someone REALLY likes to over-jingle her bell...

The best game was saved for last - Dirty Santa.

Dirty Santa is always fun, even with a smaller crowd.

It's a game where you take a number and open a gift in number order. 

Someone choosing a gift after you has the option of stealing your gift and making you choose another, hence the name "Dirty Santa."

It was a quieter Christmas Day than usual, 

but it was also a joyful one.