Christmas Eve was a busy day. I cleaned house and Monte took the last of the boxes to our storage shed. After he dropped the boxes off, he did yard work. He was happy as a clam being back on his riding lawn mower. Our good friends the Fisher's stopped by later in the afternoon and brought us a goodie plate. Thank you Barb...the cookies and pretzels were yummy, but the divinity was awesome! Its been a long time since I've had some divinity. That evening, we followed the Smith family tradition of eating pizza for dinner and watching "Christmas Vacation" before opening presents. The boys mostly got clothes this year as they, especially Nate, have grown out of just about everything. Brady was happy to get his gifts, but Nate was a bit ungrateful and complained about it. Apparently he should have gotten nothing but toys, but hey, as the song goes..."you can't always get what you want". It was quite funny watching him complain and I just had to take a picture of it so I could post it on the blog.
Christmas morning was great. The boys actually let Monte and I sleep until 8 am. It was amazing, usually if we get to sleep to 6:30 am we're doing good. Anyway, Nate was quite happy with the gift from Santa. The whole family got a Wii this year! Along with an accessories kit (i.e. gold club attachment, baseball bat attachment etc), the Guitar Hero World Tour game and a guitar. We played the Wii most of the morning and then had to get ready for the day. Our good friend Mark, his sons Luke and Lance and Mark's dad came over for dinner. Oh, and Mark brought his dog Gator too. He's the beautiful chocolate lab I talked about in a previous post. We all talked, laughed and reminisced, ate a great Christmas dinner and watched "A Christmas Story" on TV. That movie is on every year and it never gets old for me. Mark and his family left around 5 pm that night and we hooked up the Wii and played it the rest of the evening. We've played it quite a lot since then too, as you can imagine. I'm not really coordinated to play the Guitar Hero game, but according to Monte and Brady, I just need to practice. I think we should save up for the Rock Band game. Brady and Monte can play guitar, Nate can play the drums and I'll sing. We could be a modern day Partridge Family....ha ha.
Well, take care and have a great New Year's everyone! God Bless! :)
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Beth! Thank you for the Christmas card. It is so nice to hear from you. It would be fun to have Brady e-mail Christian. He can use my e-mail address which is mahannamamma@yahoo.com. It looks like you guys are doing great there. The only yard work we have been doing around here is shoveling! YUCK! I hate the snow! We have tons of it, although it is melting a little now. Christine had a little baby boy and they named him Tristan. He was born with a cleft palate and some other problems, but all is good now. Not much other news here. It's the same stuff, different year! Have a Happy New Year!
Amber, James, and kids
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