Christmas Day

Our Christmas morning started bright and early, Gabe and Des and the kids were here at 7:30 for breakfast. For the last few years, I've made biscuits and gravy, eggs and bacon. This year was a rushed meal, since Rielee couldn't wait to

get to the stockings. The kids seemed to love all of their gifts. We got Rielee a scooter and all the pads to go along with it, and her Barbie can ride in front. "Suicide Barbie" is what it looked like to everyone. Rielee tried riding Auna's scooter last summer and did pretty well, I think she can learn to ride it, but I was taking some flack as her parents are skeptical.

Parker got a remote control truck, he had it up and running in just a few minutes. I made Macee a shadow box with pictures of the State Volleyball Tourney and her sportmanship medal in it, she really liked it, and then she fell asleep shortly after the gifts were opened, just like she did last year. She has those little siblings waking her up early though, 6:00 a.m. this year.

We'll have Christmas with Charb, Kelly, and the kids this afternoon, so there is more fun to come.

Charb, Kelly and the kids finally made it up to CR about 6:00 p.m. We opened gifts fairly quickly since they still had to go over to Gabe and Des's to open gifts with Dan. They stayed over there for a little while, then came back here and we fed the babies before they left. It was an abbreviated visit, and they vowed to do it differently next year. Kelly has a large extended family so they had a lot of visiting to do in Vancouver today. But we were happy to be able to see Luke and Lexi, even if it was just a short visit.