oh, how I love coloring books

Today we celebrated St. Nicholas day. 

This involves lots of presents, specializing in candy and chocolate and smallish items, 

stuffed into rather large stockings, with all the extra in a gift bag for each person. 

It's actually on December 6th, but we couldn't round up the whole clan until today.

Most notably, I received an amazing Tangled  color book from my mother... 

who knows how immature I am.

Needless to say, I spent most of the rest of my day coloring.

It makes me very, very happy.

I also got the Titanic soundtrack from my sister (!!!), the Starbucks mug pictured above, and the movie 

It Happened One Night, (one of my favorite old movies) AND chocolate pop-tarts and lots of candy. : )

After opening our stockings in a blanket-filled, paper-strewn, messy-haired, pajama-clad frenzy, 

we eat very large late breakfast. 

Always featuring my mom's ah-mazing cinnamon rolls.

My brother Joseph. Very happy, because he is passing his plate for more food.

Also because he has a really cute wife.

I caught a couple of Virginia's 9-week-old smiles.

Baby Victoria. She's a scrumptious little cuddle-bug.

I tried to get a good photo of my sister and brother-in-law's family... which proved to be difficult, considering Miss Katie's spacey indifference to the whole thing. Eventually she seemed to decide that this was no picture for the family Christmas card--it was a photo for her modeling portfolio.