Our Second Christmas Day

We had a wonderful Christmas Day yesterday, celebrating with family here..
Great food and conversation,
Cold enough weather to put us all in the mood...
It was so nice to have everyone together,it has been way too long.....
 Jalyn is in town Yeah!!!!!
John and Jeanette too,
They got to see the new house for the first time...
Amy made the best Greek salad, so yummy...
Amy and Eric got me the cutest cart for my studio...Thank You !!Thank You!!!
Mike made me two beautiful frames...Thank You !!Thank You!!!
Deb loved her new couch and chair...
A wonderful time was had by all....
Unusual to have Christmas in the middle of January and on Teresa"s Birthday Too,

but with us out of town in December, this is when we could ,so we did.......
Okay, now on with the rest of January, What is left of it ...
I say again,
What is the big hurry?????
Anyway, hope you all stay safe and warm on this beautiful day of rest....

OK,OK not so early in the month

How did it get to be the middle of the first month of the new year and this is my very first entry in this blog????
We had the most wonderful holiday season with family in Seattle...
Thank You !!! Thank You!!! Thank You!!!
We have now been back to reality for a while and all is well.
 We are having our usual Christmas with our family here,this weekend,so that's different,great and should be fun ....
Pet Portraits were taught yesterday, and I am always a bit nervous before we start because I do all the sketches and you never know what the reaction will be....This time all went very well ...
Thank you to all my co-workers for that..[You were there for me big time ]and it was a great class...
The results of the class will be posted today on our Tampa painting with a twist face book page . We had 31 people in the class and a great job was done by all,so go check it out....
We are finally having cool weather here in Florida and it is a breath of fresh air after all the heat we have had this year...
It is time for me to get back to painting, many pre-paints to do yet ,at least one before work today so I am wrapping this up now.. hope all is well ...I will be back soon...