Wednesday2: Christmas

This morning I found the Christmas Ruiners moved baby Jesus and were all looking away.  Isaac thought it was because the Ruiners were trying to ruin Christmas by ignoring Jesus, but I say they were just trying to keep watch over baby Jesus.  And since they don't talk, we'll assume I'm correct.

We had a nice morning: a game, some chores, some preparation of food.  Then off to Larry and Cheryl's!

Bruch was first and as always, it was delicious.  It's one of my favorite meals of the year.  Then presents.  I got a wi-fi bird feeder and I'm really excited about it.  Ben found a good deal on little nerf guns, and so gave one to everyone.  Chaos ensued!  But it was a fun chaos.  Even Great-Grandma joined in and she was so cute when she was shooting her son.

There was also some discussion about Larry's socks and whether they had rubber ducks or pelicans on them.  Fast forward to while we were opening presents.  I have forgotten exactly what the conversation was about, but Isaac yells out, "No, they're pelicans!"  The timing and delivery were spot on and everyone laughed.  

Afterwards Isaac and I played Space Base with Scarlet and Jacob.  They both got a copy of the game...Scarlet because we had her name and Jacob because we were asked for game ideas.  It's a great game though, and it's always nice to go through the game once with people that know what they're doing.

It is also almost Larry's 70th birthday, so we celebrated that too!

We played a few minute-to-win-it games, ate as we felt like it, and just had a lovely time together.

Wednesday: Christmas

And once again, the animals found the person they've been looking for all month.  The cat offered some fish bones to Jesus, but it was because the cat treasured them and wanted to give his best to Jesus.

Tuesday: Christmas Eve

It was the most loveliest of days.

We saw Dad and Pat for breakfast.

We opened presents.

Ben and Joshua have been taking turns hiding this LEGO cat.  Ben had Isaac wrap it as a present yesterday, but then Joshua was very worried about it this morning when he couldn't find it.  The reason he was so worried is because he made some accessories for it as a present.  There is a cute little bow tie and a fish skeleton on a fancy platter that lifts up.

I (and the rest of the family) got a D&D puzzle from Ben.  It is a has a six mini puzzles with a problem to solve.  From Isaac I got a special mug that has a weird handle which makes it easy to grab and keeps your fingers warm.  We also got a bunch of electronic components for Gravitrax, and it was played with pretty constantly the rest of the day.

Joshua and I went to a Christmas Eve service with one of his friends while Ben and Isaac watched from home.

We played one of the games after church.  It has a Minecraft theme, and was pretty fun.

Monday: pre-Christmas

It was an odd day.  Joshua had a friend over for most of the day.  Isaac and I went to the library for the 3D printer.  I finished up some present stuff.  Isaac and I went to a Hilldore Christmas get-together.  

Ben and Joshua have colds, so they stayed home.  They finished wrapping some presents and made sunglasses.

Sunday: Lego Village

 The plan this year was to keep all the Christmas Lego sets put together and do a better job aranging them all.  The arrangement shown on the bottom isn't the final arrangement because Joshua wanted all the north pole stuff together, but it's close.  Ben did an awesome job dealing with the boxes and putting together some cute details.

Saturday: nice

Today was a lovely day.  We got some work done but also had a lot of fun.  The work just seemed to happen too.

Christmas Ruiners are still ruining Christmas.

Yesterday the black sheep broke it's two front legs.  A box was moved and the mover didn't realize there was a sheep.  Luckily, an ambulance brought the sheep and legs to Hilldore Hospital.

The sheep got all fixed up and proceeded to give the paramedics a ride!

Friday: presents!

I wrapped almost all of the presents for Dec 24 and 25.  I consolidated the presents for next weekend.  And ended up with a big box pile!

One of the sheep had an accidental fall this morning.  Joshua made a cute ambulance to bring it to Hilldore Hospital.  The sheep has been healed and will be back to shenanigans tonight.