Christmas Fun

Well, another Christmas come and gone. It was a great day filled with presents, laughs, family, christmas stories and FOOD. I feel as stuffed as I felt on Thanksgiving! The ingesting of two million plus calories actually started on Christmas Eve. We started the day by heading to Dennys to have breakfast with our pals, the Novakovichs. Then, after skipping lunch because we were still so full from breakfast, we had our traditional dinner of Belgian waffles piled high with fruit and "whup" cream (as Aleah calls it) and ham on the side at Grandma's. On Christmas morning we always fix a scrumptious spread of scrambled eggs with ham, peppers, onions and cheese, along with hash browns, fresh pineapple, toast and oj. You throw in the chocolate and what not found in our stockings that we munch on all day and then our next meal is a huge turkey dinner! You'll find me on the ellyptical tomorrow for two hours! And then an hour on the treadmill.

Don't mess with a girl and her chocolate!!

Cooper enjoyed his first Christmas. He got a nice, big, comfy bed that he loved immediately. We figured he'd be into everything as we were trying to open presents, but he just crawled on his new bed and went to sleep. That's my boy!

It was a LEGO Christmas at our house this year. We did the same thing back in 1996, but I think this year surpassed that one. Rob and the girls are crazy about legos so we added 24 sets to our collection of about 120! They had a blast opening them all to see which ones they were getting. Now my dining room table is completely submerged in legos, as well as the floor and sideboard table. Next, it will probably spread to the living room and then the hallways. I draw the line at my bedroom!!

The snow continues to pile up. We've now had about 55 inches or so and set a record for the snowiest December on record. With the 8" of new snow we received last night, we decided we had better shovel off our deck if we wanted it to remain attached to our house. So straws it was and Rob and Lexi drew the short ones. Whew! That was one job I was glad not to have to do. But Dad, being the smart one he is, told Lexi to shovel the stairs while he worked on the deck. It didn't take her long to figure out why he assigned her there - he could throw the snow over the railing right on top of her! She didn't think it was too funny but the rest of us were busting a gut, watching through the window! It's always great when we can laugh at Lexi's expense. haha