Friday, January 2, 2009

Christmas time in our part of the world





We had a wonderful time this christmas season with all of our family visiting and with all of the festivities!! We actually started way bak at the Festival of Trees in Novemeber with the girls singing and then ended up on the 26th of December with my little nephew Troy and my grandaughter Hali Ann and I Ice fishing at the Roberts gravel pond.


We started on Christmas Eve with our annual candy bar game. The entire Family was there including Nick and Tom ( they are not officially family yet but they are as close as they can be right now right now!) ha ha!











Then we went to Tony & Jewels house on Christmas day at 6:30 to watch the g-kids open their gifts and toeat a healthy breakfast and watched Kung Fu Panda. We then returned home and had our second shift of present opening at our house for Missy and Tom, and My siter Karen, Kevin, Kayla and nephew Troy and of course Annette and I.














After all of that, we went terrorizing the neighborhood on the 4 wheelers and sleds and got the kids from California all riled up!! ha ha Tom Even got in on the fun and hurt himself. Now he knows why I don't ride behind one of these things!!! The drivers always try to launch you in the air and watch you moan when you come down. We just aren't little kids anymore!!!




















After that, we went to Critter's to open gifts there with Ellory, Critter and Nick. They are really good to spleep in and started their day so much later!!! We then had games again back at our house and the festivities continued.















The following day we ended up going Ice Fishing. We tried to get Kayler to go but she was smarter than that! All in all it was a great time and it was an appropriate way to spend time together.














The giving of gifts is such a wonderfful feeling and to share in the Spirit of Christ's birth is a wonderful opportunity to give of ourselves!

4 comments:

Marissa said...

Christmas was great this year!

If your wondering why I look like a vampire in the picture with Kayla it's because I was too lazy to get my makeup out of the bag, so I used moms and her skin is SO much more WHITE than mine!!!! I knew it looked bad, but holy moly, I look like I'm dead!

I'm listening to Foreigner right now. Unfortunately Kelly Hansen has ruined a lot of good songs for me...all I think about when I hear the 80's songs is his nipples poking in and out of his shirt! Ew!

Janet Hardy said...

What is your candy bar game? I'm always looking for new traditions.

THE HATHCOCK'S said...

That looks like a great holiday....I want to know what the candy bar game is also!

Hanna in the Hizzzouse.. said...

I am so glad that you guys were able to all spend Christmas together! I hope one year we have everyone home as well.

So what is this I hear about you guys going fishing with out your favorite Coon girl? It's fine, no hurt feelings, I heard you only caught tadpoles anyways. ha ha ha..love ya. We really need to get the families together for FHE or something, it would be a blast!