Christmas Day

On Christmas Day our immediate family gathers at my Sister & Brother-in-Law's house.

When we arrived, their daughter was playing this dance game on the Wii.

My husband decided to join her.

Two of my nieces striking a pose.

The one on the right told the one on the left to NOT smile.

Models do not smile! Oh my what they learn....Time to open gifts.

The adults exchanged names a couple of months ago.

We all give the younger ones gifts.

I changed my gift-giving to them this year. As I've said in some older posts, I'm focusing more on traditions. And I did spend some time with them doing stuff, but instead of buying them a toy, I purchased a bond for each of them, in their name. When they are older, I'll give them all to them at once. I did buy them a shirt, just no toy, and they didn't even notice.

Is that a robe or a hat?

These are Little Tree-sa's, get it? Her name is Theresa and she MADE THESE FROM SCRATCH! Her husband said she EVEN MADE THE APPLESAUCE!!!

(She gets that from me)

The cakes were YUMMY. I'd like that recipe Sister. She drizzled caramel sauce on them and put a scoop of vanilla ice cream beside them. You can also see she made the traditional Mexican Wedding Cakes and Peanut Butter cookies with kisses.

Lots of serious faces here....my Sister is trying to teach us Bunko.Now listen Trent....you have these dice...

Now this is how you keep score....and I'm going to jerk that camera out of your hand if you take one more picture...(Mom wants to laugh - I can tell)
Umm, I'm STILL confused. Is a BUNKO all 1's, or all of any number, or is it all of the same number of whatever round you are on? Like if this is round 5, is a bunko all 5's?

And wouldn't that be a Yahtzee and not a Bunko?

We played Bunko, while the kids danced...

and danced...

then we decided to join them!

Dave and Trent thought they were so cool with their head gear, or is it a robe?

Funny how we are all following along this video and none of us have the same pose!
I'm looking like something out of the Thriller video while Sarah is shaking her groove thang.

Our brother had child care duties...

and I had to take pics...so Theresa and Lorri did dishes!

Twas time to go home.

We had a wonderful day.

Adrienne, Dylan, Joey and Andrew we missed you and hope you had a Wonderful Christmas.

Peace,

Cindy