Christmas Day

We hope that everybody out there had a great Christmas holiday. I know that we had a great time here in Eagle River. It was great to be together and celebrate the best time of year with each other; of course we also missed those who were not with us this year, best rest assured you were all in our thoughts. We had a great Christmas day-we arose about 8:00 or so to two very, very excited children who proceeded to shred the wrapping on everything they could get their hands on. The only downside to the whole day was that Jessica had a touch of the flu that was going around, but she still was able to keep the Christmas spirit and felt great the next day.

Well, on to the pictures.

Santa replaced Kierin and Connor's old stockings with brand new Star Wars ones. As many of you know, Kierin tends to go from obsession to obsession-his current favorite thing ever is Star Wars. Its kind of funny, though, because when I think of Star Wars, I think of the original trilogy-Han Solo, Luke Skywalker, etc. Kierin thinks of the new trilogy-Anakin, Obi Won, the godawful Clone Wars movie. Its weird-Kierin views Anakin as a hero; I view him as the guy who will become Darth Vader, the ultimate bad guy in the universe! Anyway, back to the stockings-as you can see, Kierin is holding his Clone Trooper stocking. Connor received a stocking with HIS favorite Star Wars guy, Master Yoda. BTW, that is what Connor always calls him-Master Yoda, never just Yoda.


Connor also got a present that was almost as big as he is. Here Connor is opening his new Elmo kitchen. The boys have a kitchen over at Meemaw and Peepaw's house that they love to play with, so Santa brought Connor an Elmo Kitchen (Elmo is Connor's obsession and the word he says the most is Elmo. Its kind of like touretts-out of nowhere, he'll just say "Elmo." Weird.). They love it though. Connor and Kierin probably played with it for an hour and a half on Christmas day. Connor played with it for about 45 minutes on Sunday, as he kept bringing me "food."


My best present from Jessica was the Guitar Hero game. Jessica is obsessed with it also. We have played it quite a bit as we attempt to master the two songs Dream Police and I Hate Myself For Loving You. I am actually getting pretty sick of those songs. Still, we also discovered that not only is Guitar Hero very fun and addictive to play, it also makes an awesome bench to sit on while you read about lightsabers.


Here are Meemaw and Peepaw on Christmas day. We went over to their house for dinner. We gave them a picture of their beautiful grandsons with handprints. They loved it, of course!


Finally, Nudgey was a good dog this year too! He also got a visit from Santa Paws!