Claire's first Christmas was a wonderful experience for many. Aaron, Megan and Claire were priveledged to light the Christ Candle at the family Christmas Eve service at our church in Hopkins, then we shared a light dinner at our home with Grandpa and Grandma Baines.

Then after a quiet Christmas Eve, we all woke up on Christmas morning and got to our routines, Claire and Mom ate, Dad went to work briefly as he was on call, and got cleaned up and dressed for a great day. We opened our stockings together, Megan and Aaron are getting some things for the basement this year (last year the bedroom furniture and see what happened).

Claire got some wonderfully useful items for herself from Santa in her stocking...it overflowed.

We went to Doug and Char's for presents and Christmas Dinner. Doug cooked up a wonderful spread of Christmas ham and all the fixings, there was even a planned pyrotechnics show for dessert.

We are currently working on filling up the my first Christmas album from the Busse's in Stevens Point, and are happy to have many wonderful memories and pictures from this our first Christmas together as a family.

Thanks to Doug and Char we also have a wonderful new camera to post pictures with. Many more photos to come!