Christmas Vacation

Make a Smilebox scrapbook

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This Christmas is one to be remembered. Tony was able to come home and stay with us for almost two weeks. It took us a few days to get used to having him around again but we are now used to having him back and his departure on New Year's Day will leave a big void again.

We open our presents on Christmas Eve and Uncle Ruthie was there with us. What a thrill! The people at our house have matured in their belief in Santa and now merely believe in the "spirit of santa". It was a nice Christmas and everyone received useful and wanted presents. We gave Ruthie a quilt that we had started a number of years ago but finally finished. Martin and his family sent us this huge package of German chocolate! We have been farming out chocolate to all of our relatives that have come by. Martin and family! Thanks so much! The chocolate spreaders are doing a good job of spreading around the calories. There was a mean game of scrabble that was played on Christmas Day as well followed by a Ham, Risotto and Salad Christmas Dinner. Yummy! Our camera had gone on the fritz over the summer and Santa brought us a new camera. So, we will be back in business now. We are excited.

Uncle Ruthie learned how to play Rock Band and Guitar Hero at house. Can you believe she has never played these games and she is a walking "whose who of music" almanac? In order to protect the inexperienced we will not be displaying any videos even if they would make for some great entertainment. We watched the batman movie "The Dark Knight". It was a pretty good movie and mom stayed awake through the whole show. WOW!

Aunt Priscilla and Uncle Dan stopped by at our house for a few hours. They live near Chicago and we were so happy to see them as well. Priscilla changed her hair color and it looks absolutely fab! We couldn't tell if Uncle Dan changed his hair color but he looked good too. Priscilla is a pretty good Rock Band member and we vote to add her as our permanent lead singer.

For New Year's we think Aunt Jan will be bringing everyone up from Yuma and Uncle Ray and Company is coming over from Tempe and who knows who else. We will be "d'place to be".