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Better Late Than Never.

Well it's that time of year again. Time to sit on some strange mans lap and answer ridiculous questions in hopes that he will give us something good. This is our second attempt at visiting with Santa. Let's just say we're 2 for 2! (What in the world is that in your left hand Zach..I mean Santa, is that my wallet?)

Things did get a little better once he gave us what we came for.

Then it was time for Christmas morning. Santa left an awesome Little People play set. I know this picture is a little blurry but it really caught the perfect Christmas morning expression so I had to include it.

...Someone's been eattin on these cookies. ...Maybe there really was someone here last night.

To the winner goes the spoils.

Yeah, I took care of it for ya. Turns out you had some cookies jammed down in there. That musta been some party last night, guess that's none of my business. That'll be a hundred dollars.

At what point on Christmas morning does it become inappropriate to STILL be in your PJ's? Is 3pm too late?

And, I just thought I'd throw in a picture of Avery playing on the frog for good measure.

Yet another Christmas season come and gone. All the cookies have been eaten and unfortunatly I have put a large dent in the stash of coffee and summer sausage that I was gifted. Why do you suppose they call it summer sausage when the only time anyone ever gets any is in the winter? Something to think about for next year I guess. Hope that you all had a splended holiday and that you didn't have too much trouble getting used the the alarm clock again.

Best seats in the house

Someone I know has a loving wife that got him seats to tonight's vikings game in the 1st row in the end zone for his birthday! Now that's a birthday gift! If she could have only included a vikings win...Anyways, we saw him on TV and thought he would like to see how cool he looked. Sorry to say, the loving wife that bought the gift didn't make it on TV.

For those of you who are not quite sure...No he is not the one with the painted face.

Curoivie

So I decided to try my hand at the old family Curoivie recipe this year. I think they turned out pretty good. Well, aside from the fact that I only had green sprinkles (No those are not chives Paul)and target only had 3 cookie cutters and they were not especially festive. Now that I think about it I think those sprinkles were a wedding present. I knew they would come in handy sooner or later. Thanks Sis.

I did get a little tired of cutting cookies towards the end so I decided to expedite the process a little.

And wouldn't you know it, the "Jedi Master" had to send me a box in the mail to show me how it's supposed to be done. (Which I REALLY appreciate). No kidding, Erin went out to get the mail while I was making these and they were there. That's some timing.

Thanksgiving in Minnesota

We just got back from a Thanksgiving trip to Minnesota, and when I say "just got back" I mean two weeks ago. We had a great time visiting everyone, only wish we had more time to visit and catch up. It seems like there is never enough time for that. The grandkids made good use of their time anyways. Got in some great eating, played some Wii, talked a few old men into playing football even though they would regret it for a few days afterwords, and even took some time for a picture. Notice the uncooperative one on the bottom right. This was the best one I could find.

We also had a few days to visit up in Alex and got in some QT with Grandma, PAul and Sonja.

Some of the younger cousins were smart and spent most of thanksgiving day hiding out with all Alondra's great toys. (sorry this picture is out of order but if I tried to fix it it would only make things worse. I hope you can forgive me.)

Took advantage of some of the time at grandmas to raid her craft station.

Painting?

Painting.

Painting!

And....a little mac n cheese

It's not hard to figure out who was Avery's buddy this trip.
We had a great time visiting. Thanks to Bro+12 for the great turkey, I wanted to eat about 3 more plates full but I held off. It was great to see everyone and we will see you again soon.