Christmas in Ohio

Christmas morning, we ate a nice quick breakfast and then packed up and left for Ohio. The trip went well, and Katelyn was so good. It was a different Christmas for sure, but it was neat to think a bunch on Mary and Joseph, and what it would've been like to await Jesus's arrival on a trip. :)

We got there in time to join everyone at some friend's of Mom and Dad's for a Christmas dinner. It was such a nice relaxing family evening.
Katelyn about to enjoy her dinner.

Eli and Verna - we sang some Christmas carols together, visited and looked at pictures - then back to one of mom and dad's homes and slept soundly.

Looking at books together.

I've got such a handsome guy - and I love his new shirt from Anne-Marie. :)

Uncle Will coloring with Katie.

The precious angel sleeping on daddy during Sunday naptime.

Practicing before singing for 35 minutes at the church evening service.

Dad took us all out to breakfast the next morning before heading to the outlet mall and shop, shop shopping. :)

Mark, Nel and muffin.

Will and Sarah.

Looking at a train at the mall window.

Oma and Katelyn walking around the outlets in the cold weather.

The pretty Ohio landscape.

We went for supper at Mother Yoders - an Amish resturant.

Oma and Katelyn in the kitchen.

The Amish and their buggies.

We stopped at P.Graham Dunn in Dalton, Ohio to pick up some prints for the Windmill. Katelyn and I spent some time in the coloring area. :)

Then we headed back to Canada - two cars and a bunch of us.

Lunch at Bob Evans. Katelyn kept us entertained. :)

Katelyn enjoying her own spaghetti. It seems strange that we are already beginning to have to order her own food at a resturant. :) She is growing up. :) The rest of the trip went well - apart from the baby using my ribs as brace, stopping to use the washroom quite often, and a looonnng wait at the border. But it was so nice to get back to our home - baby didn't arrive and we're thankful. :) (though I can't wait!)