Christmas 2009 At Greg's Home

Christmas, children, is not a date.  It is a state of mind.  ~Mary Ellen Chase

A Dinner Party At Greg's Home 12/21/2009

Dinner party at GReg's Home Christmas 2009
Check Del's hat!

Did you know? - Humbug is an old term meaning hoax or jest. While the term was first described in 1751 as student slang, its etymology is unknown. Its present meaning as an exclamation is closer to 'nonsense' or 'gibberish', while as a noun, a humbug refers to a fraud or impostor, implying an element of unjustified publicity and spectacle.

 

Dinner party at GReg's Home Christmas 2009
Our host

Dinner party at Greg's Home Christmas 2009
Luba visit with every.
The girl's name Luba \l(u)- ba\ is of Yiddish origin, and its meaning is "dear".

Dinner party at GReg's Home Christmas 2009
Sue is fighting off the giggles

Dinner party at GReg's Home Christmas 2009
Vicky is telling a story

Did you know? - Storytelling is the conveying of events in words, images, and sounds often by improvisation or embellishment. Stories or narratives have been shared in every culture and in every land as a means of entertainment, education, preservation of culture and in order to instill moral values.

Dinner party at GReg's Home Christmas 2009

Dinner party at GReg's Home Christmas 2009
The Alpha Cat has her own special place

Did you know? - These are "alpha cats." They are natural leaders; they refuse to be led and attempt to take charge of practically every situation. These cats like their food when they want it and the way that they like it ... or else.

Mitzi Gaynor Joins The Conversation

Did you know? - Mitzi Gaynor (born September 4, 1931) is an American actress, singer and dancer. Gaynor was born as Francesca Marlene de Czanyi von Gerber in Chicago, Illinois. She trained as a ballerina as a child and began her career as a chorus dancer. She sang, acted and danced in a number of film musicals, often paired with some of the biggest male musical stars.

Dinner party at GReg's Home Christmas 2009
Mitzi and Del

Dinner party at GReg's Home Christmas 2009
Del recounts the visits with Miss Mitzi

Dinner party at GReg's Home Christmas 2009
A beautiful table setting

Checking The Lazagna

Did you know? - Lasagna (singular, Italian pronunciation: [laˈzaɲa]; plural lasagne [laˈzaɲe] but always spelled lasagne in Italy and UK) is both a form of pasta in sheets (sometimes rippled, though seldom so in Northern Italy) and also a dish, sometimes named lasagne al forno (meaning "oven-cooked lasagne") made with alternate layers of pasta, cheese, and often ragù (a meat sauce) or tomato sauce.

The word lasagna, which originally applied to a cooking pot, now simply describes the food itself.

Dinner party at GReg's Home Christmas 2009

Dinner party at GReg's Home Christmas 2009
Boo!!

The Stories Continue

Dinner party at GReg's Home Christmas 2009
Vicky and Luba have something in common

Dinner party at GReg's Home Christmas 2009
Sharing stories about famous people - Look out Michael J. Fox

Dinner party at GReg's Home Christmas 2009
Want to buy a lottery ticket??

Dinner party at GReg's Home Christmas 2009
Kara watches all the activities

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More story telling

Santa Comes To Visit

Dinner party at GReg's Home Christmas 2009

Dinner party at GReg's Home Christmas 2009
"Watch those hands Santa!"

Dinner party at GReg's Home Christmas 2009
Double your fun

Dinner party at GReg's Home Christmas 2009
Carmel gets a costume... sort of

Dinner party at GReg's Home Christmas 2009
Look alikes!  Not her eyes! She is seeing red

Dinner party at GReg's Home Christmas 2009
Del is in the mirror

Dinner party at GReg's Home Christmas 2009
The new baby comes to visit

Dinner party at GReg's Home Christmas 2009
Carmel and the laser beam make for alot of fun

Dinner party at GReg's Home Christmas 2009

Dinner party at GReg's Home Christmas 2009

Dinner party at GReg's Home Christmas 2009

Dinner party at GReg's Home Christmas 2009
Sue takes it all in

Dinner party at GReg's Home Christmas 2009
Paul is stuffed with Lazagna

Dinner party at GReg's Home Christmas 2009

Dinner party at GReg's Home Christmas 2009
Only the participants know what this means... Right Paul???

The Vicky Cam

Greg's Dinner Party 2009

Greg's Dinner Party 2009

Greg's Dinner Party 2009

Greg's Dinner Party 2009

Greg's Dinner Party 2009

Greg's Dinner Party 2009

Greg's Dinner Party 2009

Greg's Dinner Party 2009

Greg's Dinner Party 2009

Greg's Dinner Party 2009

Greg's Dinner Party 2009

Greg's Dinner Party 2009

Greg's Dinner Party 2009

Greg's Dinner Party 2009

Greg's Dinner Party 2009

Greg's Dinner Party 2009

Greg's Dinner Party 2009