Christmas Recap

Thought I would summarize our Happy Holiday Season.

We stayed in Corvallis, which was nice. Traveling with the kids over the holidays is not something I was excited about. Aunt Pete and Uncle Lloyd decided to head our way and spend Christmas with us. They arrived with Frank the Cat and Blue the Fish on December 23. Luckily they drove as the roads were pretty clear, but PDX was a mess.

For Christmas Eve we did lots of grocery shopping for the dinner we had planned for the next day. Christmas Eve we had a simple dinner here... just the six of us. We had a good lasagna dinner and then we opened presents. Kahlil thought it was GREAT! He helped hand out the gifts and was pretty excited about opening his gifts. It was the first year that he really got the whole present thing. Langston on the other hand was not very impressed with the event. Some of the favorite gifts this year... Kahlil's superhero outfit from K&P, and along with that is The Incredibles move from AP&L, Langston's ball launcher from UR&AB (hit with both boys), the farting dog book from Grandpa Richard and Grandma Marcia, the flashing towels from Grandma Ettie and Papa, the named stools from the Rio Rancho Fribergs have been great, and Santa did good with the new workbench and tools.

Christmas day was spent cooking. Pete and Lloyd are masters at putting on a large dinner and it was great to watch them in action. I mostly tried to help and stay out of their way. We had prime rib, twice baked potatoes, creamed spinach, fresh baked rolls, and more I'm not remembering now. The Weisel and Watts families came over for dinner. It was great to hang out, eat some good food, and spend a little time together.

The next day Aunt Pete and Lloyd headed home. It was a quick trip for them, but I'm really glad they came.

December 26th is Boxing Day and the Watts had us over for a fantastic dinner of traditional English foods. Luckily much of the food was not cooked in a traditional way :-) It was really yummy and I ate more than I should have.

For New Years we had Jen and Ryan, Morgan's friends who are getting their masters as OSU, over to watch the Beaver Bowl game. It was a very low scoring game, 0-3, but the Beavers won so that was good. That evening was just our family. Kids in bed at the regular time. At the stoke of New Years, I was playing my new computer card game and Jay was playing is PS2 game. We took a break and wished each other a Happy New Year.