Christmas Eve

Christmas eve we drove to Spring Branch, TX to Bob and Doris’ house.  Nola, Matt, and Todd were already there when we arrived.  Here are Bob and Doris.
 
And here is their Christmas Tree.

In lieu of a fireplace, the stockings were hung on the couch.

Before dinner we Skyped with Michelle who was in Pittsburg.  Here are Doris, Nola, Matt, and Todd talking to her.

Matt even made a face at her.

After a while she woke Michael up so that we could wish him a Merry Christmas too.

After a wonderful dinner of turkey and all the fixings we opened our stockings.  Here is Trouble trying to get his rawhide stick out of his stocking.

Wayne always puts lotto tickets in the stockings and everyone is trying to find out what they got.

Here is Matt on his computer as Doris is in the kitchen.
  
Later on that evening we got a call from Lois in Australia.  With some technical help from Matt we finally got hooked up to Skype on Doris’ computer and called her back.  Here are Nola and I talking to her.

And here  Matt and Doris joined in on the conversation.

Nola, Matt, and Todd went back to Austin and Wayne, Trouble and I spent the night.