Molly, Eric and Micah came a few days early for a nice Christmas visit. Thanks for the time!
Then came the Smiths (thanks Chad for putting up with the pics…painful for his migranes) They added a lot of energy to the day!
Add the Meiers to the mix and we have a houseful!
This was a “home-made” Christmas. Mima made the grandkids all little magnetic white board bags with lots of magnetice toys.
Joel draws amazing happy faces on his!
Steve made cherry wood replicas of a wooden nativity puzzle he made years ago for our family
Here are some other “home-made” samplings. Kari used her expert garage sale skills to nab a couple hand painted saw blades for her dad’s new shop. Jodi (and Chad) sewed us each potato/tortilla bags for the microwave, Ian drew a picture of the guarane (sp?) indian that eventually killed the 5 missionaries in Ecuador, along with Ecuadorian stamps from his grandfather’s collection of each of the 5 missionaries! And Molly put together an awesome Stanley family cookbook with some of our favorite recipes. 
Chad made Steve a wood rolling stand for his shop…very creative ideas all!
Then of course the yummy ham dinner, movies, singing and lots of fun! Thanks for a wonderful day guys!
Steve’s Christmas stocking….funny, because he went in the closet in which this guy was hiding….and didn’t even see it! Just saying the observation skills are lacking! I know, he was focused on his task at hand 
How fun and very creative!! I remember playing with our wooden nativity set/puzzle every year- it was a lot of fun!
and I like Jodi’s new haircut!
How fun! Looks to be a very merry christmas….
Thanks for the memories mom and dad!
Kaleb and selah- the person hiding in the closet was funny!
great pictures mom! You’ll have to share them! Thanks for the fun times! And dad, I STILL can’t believe you didn’t see that guy in the closet!