These pictures are from our time in Ohio during Christmas. We rotate going to Ohio for Christmas and Thanksgiving. We always have so much fun. A big thank you to our Messner Family for planning such a good time for us. Thank you to Pop Pop for putting up with us at your house for a week. You are a wonderful host!
One night we went to “Hale Farms” to do their Lantern Tour. It was so awesome! These pictures were made inside the lodge. Thank You Joe, for planning this outing. What a treat it was!
The Messner Family 2011
My nephew-Timmy and his girlfriend, Olivia.
Timmy and Olivia
Taylor
Joe and Chris
Jacob
Jorden
Jorden let me experiment some with lighting and poses…
Like this one!
Joe and Chris again
I think Taylor is ready to go out into the cold!
The tour took us back in time to Christmas during the Civil War era. It was so fun and very informative. Unfortunately the lighting was bad (no electricity of course) and they wouldn’t let us use a flash) Jeff played around some with the camera and got this cool picture. Too bad the one of Joe leading the singing in the church didn’t turn out. 
Christmas Morning
Christmas Morning-let the fun begin!
I think Jorden would rather be in bed!
Not Jacob! He couldn’t wait for this morning to come!
Cool looking Santa!
Not sure if Pop Pop fell back asleep or what…
A new Wii game!!
Jorden piling up the presents…
Jacob loves the job of passing out the gifts every year…
More Legos???
I think he’s pretty happy about it!
Pop Pop loves the “Zits” comic books.
Happy about that gift Taylor??? 
New shirts from Pop Pop!
A KINDLE!!! Yay!
Jacob putting together another one of his new Lego sets…
Jorden, checking out his new study Bible from Pop Pop while listening to his new CD of Casting Crowns and wearing his new jacket. Ha! Ha!
I believe he is playing “Age of Empires” yet again…
Jeff give me a Brand New Laptop for Christmas!! I love it!!
Working on Christmas breakfast….
Still working on Lego sets…
Hungarian and Bavarian sausage! Yum!
Taylor and Jeff were in charge of the Monkey Bread…
I hate to make it because it’s so time consuming…more than glad to turn it over to them…
They did a perfect job! It was so delicious.
I made my traditional breakfast pizza.
Let’s go backwards here. These next pictures are from
Christmas Eve at Joan’s
This is Mitch, the Copeland cat…He is huge! They tried to tell us it was his “winter coat”. Ha! Ha!
Uncle Joe telling a funny story…
One of the boys favorite gifts from Uncle Joe to Jorden…
Catan!
Jacob received 3 new Lego sets from Joe, Joan, and Timmy
Taylor with his new remote helicopter
Chris with one of his many books. He will be reading for quite a while…
Timmy happy with his gift card from Lowes!
Chris unwrapping more books…
Olivia loved her gift card from Starbucks!
We have lots of coffee drinkers in the Messner family
Hoodwinked!
A new scarf!
Checking out one of his new Lego sets
Pop Pop opening his gifts
Taylor with his new blanket! Everyone was fighting him for this.
We gave Joe a new leather wallet, made by my dad. We put it in a box that made him think it was memory for a computer. (He doesn’t own a computer) His expression was priceless!
But he was thrilled when he opened the box and realized what it really was.
Uncle Joe is NOT a coffee drinker.. He used to be, but went cold turkey and now drinks hot tea like Jeff and I…I like our little “tea club”.
Jacob putting together one of his Lego sets.
Getting ready to play games
Catan!
Unfortunately it did not snow while we were in Ohio this year. That is quite unusual, but maybe it means they will have a mild winter this year.
A black squirrel outside Pop Pop’s kitchen
Merry Christmas!
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