Happy Holidays!

We had a fantastic Christmas and you can view some of it by clicking on "Our Pictures" on the right hand side of this page.

We had Christmas Eve at Ray and Diane's across the street. She fed all 40-50 of us homemade lasagna and pizza. It was a warm evening and we spent a large part of it outdoors. After dinner we came to our house (the Shumbies' and us) to relax and open a few gifts as the midnight hour was approaching.

On Christmas Morning we went over to the Shumbie house first thing to open the remainder of the gifts. Wow, was Santa ever good to everyone. We had a blast, took our time and looked at each other's gifts and enjoyed. And of course we had so much fun watching the two dogs play and open presents. Socks taught Jake to play tug of war with the bone and also to chew on cardboard - which is one of Sock's favorite things in the world to do. Jake tried it but just couldn't really get into it. Well that took all morning so then Kirby and I went home to clean up and relax until time to prepare the rest of dinner.

So, Shumbies came back to our house. We just went back and forth all the time! Kirby had been marinating the turkey in tabasco sauce for almost 24 hours and had the cooker all set up out back. It is really fast to cook the turkey in hot fat! Only 55 minutes. It was a first for us and we had a really fun time with it. And then we proceeded to eat again. We have certainly been well fed through this holiday.

After dinner we all sat back and watch "Fred Claus" to finish out the evening. They will be back this afternoon as we didn't get any game playing in yet and we must do that!

I hope your Christmas was as wonderful as ours!