Twas' the night before christmas...

Well its over for another year! I take 2 weeks to plan and co-ordinate the Martz's christmas dinner and within 7 hours...its over! Again this year was another successful, funfilled day. Unfortunatly there wasn't as many here this year due to other activities and prior events that people needed to be at. Even though there was alot missing , we still had a great time! Here's how it went this year....
At 3am Paul got up to put the turkey in the oven, the turkey cooked until 10:30ish. We then carved the turkey and started the potatoes, carrots and corn. Last night I made the turnip so that it was one last thing I didn't need to do. All I had to do was warm it up when dinner was ready. We had stuffing, cranberry sauce, ham and all the regular fixings it takes to make a fabulous christmas dinner. People arrived after 1pm and we started to organize our family picture. Michelle was wonderful with arranging people and planning the way people would be placed in the picture. My friend Heather kindly came over to take the picture, she was great! A big Thank you to Heather for taking the time to do this for our family. The picture was fun, everyone was happy to be involved, but like I said there was alot missing so we are going to attempt another big family photo in the summer time! Here are a few samples of what we got...

The picture below is with just the immediate family, we had the boyfriends and girlfriends stand out on this one, its important to get one with just family too!

Me and my family...I love the Santa Hats...

My beautiful neice Michelle and her boyfriend Syd.


Here are some picture's from the day..

The finished turkey...great job Paul! It was soooo good!!


Paul carving the turkey...check out who is at his feet! Ollie has the best spot in the house..in case daddy drops some turkey bits!



Here is Santa and his helper Elf handing out the christmas presents...

Grandpa and Suzanne sharing a "smooch", Merry Christmas to both of you! We love you!!

Overall it was a great day! Thanks to everyone who could make it out! Merry Christmas Martz Family and a Happy New Year!