We celebrated a lovely Christmas with Toby’s sister, Kim, and her family on Sunday. Both Raylee and Tia had guest this year. We missed Ashley, who had to work. I made her come over later to get food and her gift. Unlike the rest of the family, she was spared seeing my magic tricks. Lucky her.
Magic tricks, I love them and I’ve managed to make almost all the family suffer through the half-dozen I’ve learned. I have fun and they just shake their heads. Tia said I was reduced to age 8 when I opened that present. The magic set has to be among the top 10 gifts to me this year! 6 tricks down and 193 to go!
The meal this year was a bit less traditional and it turned out really good. I didn’t burn anything (what a shocker). We had pork loin, ham, green bean casserole, corn, mashed potatoes, rolls, salad. Kim brought cake and deer spaghetti. All was delicious. We ate so much that I was sure we’d all be passed out before the afternoon was over. As it turned out, I think only Brian and Morgan fell asleep.
Gift giving was fun. Prank gifts are a favorite at our house and everybody is fair game. Cole is always leery about opening gifts. He remembers the Christmas Raylee received a training bra and how the bigger guys put it on him. This makes Cole open his presents very carefully. He was lucky this year as the worst that happened was him superimposed on a photo of Hooter girls. He informed us that he hated us! It was all in good fun and we knew he really didn’t mean it. Secretly he was just glad it wasn’t a training bra.
Tori got a very tiny pair of horse shaped ear rings. Tiny. The box that was wrapped was large with several smaller boxes inside one another. It took her several minutes to work her way down to the actual gift. Her facial expression was priceless as she said, “that great big box for this little bitty present!”
I recycle boxes for gift wrapping so what you open might not really be what you get. Morgan opened her gift and said, “I got oatmeal.” Surprise. Not really. I think she was relieved to find a fuzzy blanket in the box.
The big kids all left, the guys and Kim watched football, Cole played Wii and I beat Tori in a game of Mexican Dominoes. She was loving the game right up until I won.
It was a happy day filled with family,friends and food. Here’s is a goofy photo of all of us. This group can not be serious!
Christmas 2010
Being around family on Christmas is what its all about. You can just sit back and look at the photo that you guys had a great Christmas together. I think I would of died laughing if I would of received a training bra on Christmas, that was a good joke. Prank gift is what my family and I enjoy the most. For this past Christmas, my prank gift was a toy snake because I always told my mother that I wanted a pet Ball Python for Christmas.