a night at home

It is a cold winter night, and cozy in here. Our tree is lit up, and lights in the windows, and the lamps are off, so it is lit in here by one tv with video games (Sam), this laptop, the other computer, and the lights in the music area of the living room. See Joe, 16, in the photo below playing the piano. He and Paul (the dad of the house) are playing some Christmas music on their guitars...the little girls are playing here and there, and in their room. Kathryn (9) is at a sleepover, Emily, Abigail, Mariel, and Molly are at a girls Christmas party. Ben went out with his friends. So its just Daddy, Joe, Aaron, Sam, Margaret, Evelyn, Suzanne, Sonja, Jonathan, Charlotte Claire, Camille, and me. Believe it or not, it is kind of quiet. I included the trampoline picture because: warm weather was just here. Fall was beautiful. Molly, Margaret, and Kathryn are beautiful. The kids got so much excercise on that trampoline....Now they have to run around in circles, and jump off chairs into piles of blankets to get their energy out. Going outside is great too, but sometimes it is too dark or cold and windy...I have to go and help the girls find and wrap their class presents, and Camille just spit up all over Evelyn....