HO HO HO!!

Andrew & Savannah with Mr & Mrs Claus.

Andrew & Savannah on their way down the stairs Christmas morning

We're hanging out in Brownsburg, IN for a couple of days celebrating Christmas with my-side family. Doing a lot of relaxing, story telling, laughing, watching football and eating way too much... attendance at Gold's will be extremely important the next couple of weeks.

Due to working on the bathroom the last two weeks (WHY does a one-week home improvement project turn into a 2+ week project for me!?!?) I haven't been to Gold's at all since I started in on the bathroom, and I'm beginning to really feel it. But, I've got to get thru this project first before making time for anything "fun."

Laurie's family will be coming over to our house on Sunday... I made my personal secret chili Thursday evening (full strength) for her family to enjoy (hopefully).

Christmas morning was a lot of fun at our house... Probably the neatest thing this year was watching Andrew and Savannah really get into wrapping gifts... probably about 40 total. These weren't gifts purchased, but odds and ends they "found" in their rooms that they decided they didn't need anymore and wanted to "give away"... they were presents for Laurie and I and "Tangie" (Andrew's stuffed teddy bear). I've never seen two little kids so furiously busy wrapping presents like they were on Saturday and Sunday... they kept running up and down the stairs placing more and more gifts under the tree. Most of them were opened, but there are still a few that remain unwrapped 3-days later. Below is Laurie opening a mini-Clifford that one of them wrapped and gave to her and a children's Bible, which was Laurie's when she was a child; what goes around comes around :')

One of the cutest gifts was a book that Andrew wrote during the weekend before Christmas: Star War's X; A Reversed Memory. He made two copies... one for each of us.

We never did find a Wii for the kids... we were SOOOOOOOOOO close to getting one at Toys R Us... but, we didn't ask when we walked in. As we were leaving we saw someone picking one up at customer service... I asked him, "Did you just buy that?" He smiled and said yes. I asked them if they had anymore (in a whisper, of course) and the employee said, "No, we only had one and we didn't even know we had that one." GEEESH!!! Timing... Timing... Timing... After that we made it a priority to at least ask when we walked into each store. Which got us no where. But, that's ok... our kids didn't miss it.