Our Christmas

Well it has been a while since I have last posted, it has been a crazy couple of weeks. However most of that is boring, so I will tell you about some of our Christmas.

Here is a picture of our tree, that I decided to put up to try and put me in the Christmas spirit, which kind of worked.


The Saturday before Christmas my family had it's annual Christmas party. All my mom's family gets together for a Christmas party, as we have gotten older there are a few that have moved and it is now hard for them to make it. It use to be to try and help the little kids calm down a little, now there are fewer little kids, and it doesn't seem to work to calm them down as much as wind them up. Basically we get together for dinner, and games. This year we did chili and soup for dinner, and my Grandpa Curly read "Twas the Night Before Christmas", afterwards we did a white elephant gift exchange. Since there are so many of us, we tend to get a little competitive with the stealing of presents, we do set a few rules one the stealing just so it won't take all night, but it is often the best part (too bad I didn't get any pictures of that).
Here are a few pictures

A few of my relatives having dinner






This is me and my sister in law Aubrey after dinner was done, right before presents, not a great picture.


Here is one of my Grandpa Curly with a bow on his head from one of the many presents that were opened.


Christmas Eve Kraig, Kurt, Stacy, and I went to Linda's and Lonnie's were we hung out playing Phase 10. It is kind of a fun card game, however I am very bad at it.

Christmas Day, Kraig slept in. Only until 7:30, but for him that is really good. We just kind of hung out at home together until we went to his parents house. We got to his parents house at about noon, shortly after we got there Kent, and Kurt and their families got there. We let the little kids open there presents from Grandpa & Grandma, and the aunts and uncles. Which they all had a blast doing. Then once Keith and his family got there we opened the rest of the presents. My in-laws are so generous, and I am so grateful to them for everything that they do.
Here a few pictures of Christmas day

Jillyn and Lucy with Lucy's monkey, that she loves


Here is one of Amy


Here is one of Kaden, he is starting to look closer to a teenager then a little kid


Here is one of Lucy playing with her new phone


We left Linda & Lonnie's at about 7:30 or 8:00, just before a big snow storm hit that closed the airport, that isn't far from our house (which left us with about 6 inches of snow last night). So First thing this morning Kraig went out and shoveled our drive way. The dogs were a little upset because Kraig was outside and they were inside.

Rusty watching Kraig


Gabby watching Kraig