Christmas 2015

 Merry Christmas!  We had our traditional Christmas Celebration.  A big turkey dinner on Christmas Eve followed by Christmas light spotting, a Christmas movie, the nativity with our puppets, cookie decorating for Santa, and family gifts.  The big gift for the kids from Russ and I this year was a clearplay DVD player that edits movies.  We gave them an envelope full of words that they had to put together to make a sentence telling them what it was.  We have been dying to show Ridge superhero movies before he grows out of his superhero stage.  With the clearplay we can.

Christmas morning was so fun, as usual.  The family got some new sleds, a panini maker, and a ping pong topper for the air hockey table.  Everyone got a Hennessy hammock for backpacking.  The girls both got backpacks for backpacking.  Katelyn got a kindle.  Kyleigh got some new swimming DVDs and book.  Ridge got lots of legos.  Russ got a new sleeping bag and some fishing stuff.  I got a new world map canvas and my favorite ever workout water bottle.  We had our traditional Christmas breakfast which is an egg and sausage casserole, blueberry muffins, and homemade grape juice.

We spent the afternoon playing with our new toys, having ping pong tournaments, eating leftovers, watching iron man (edited), and having a snowball fight.  Can't think of a better way to spend the day.