Christmas Day

Oh, what a wonderful Christmas! I miss the toys and the little kid excitement, though! L got up and started bacon and eggs and pancakes and we all ate a nice big breakfast and then opened the gifts from my sister and family and the ones the kids gave to each other. Traditionally we open those gifts Christmas eve and then Christmas morning are the gifts we give to the kids, plus the stockings with a few goodies in them. However, since we didn't do anything Christmas Eve, we opened those gifts and then sent the kids upstairs while we filled the stockings and set out their gifts from us in separate chairs. We always get a picture of them with video at the top of the stairs coming down Christmas morning. So we continued with tradition!

Youngest son was the happiest...he got his first phone. He's been wanting one for about 2 years now. Sigh. Younger daughter got an OU sweatshirt, 2 new pairs of shoes, and various clothing items. Older daughter got a cute pink polka dot digital camera and some clothes. Both older sons got nice toolkits to keep in their cars and some clothing. Everyone got a few miscellaneous items as well. The highlight was middle son's bringing in the high definition TV for dad. He paid for most of it, I contributed $100 and I am not sure how much the other kids were able to help. He did get it after Thanksgiving on one of those mega sales.

After leisurely opening gifts, L got to making dough in the bread machine, and I got to working on a jello salad and some dessert for our dinner with friends at 5.

Went over there about 5 and enjoyed a nice potluck dinner. There were 21 of us but oldest son had to work so was not able to come. After eating we played dirty Santa with some candy that C picked up. Then we played another game after that which is a mixture of the game "telephone" and pictionary. You write down a phrase, pass it to the next person and they turn the page and try to draw that phrase in pictures. Then you pass it again and that person writes down what they think the picture is. Then again the next person draws a picture of what the newly revised phrase is. And so on until it goes all the way around the room. I have not laughed so hard in a really long time. Well, after playing that we played Apples to Apples. That was fun, too. We left about 10:30, after saying goodbye to middle son, who left the day after Christmas for Arizona with two friends for a long weekend. They are coming back late Monday.