It's Christmas!!!

Christmas 2018 was a success.  But really, how could it not be?! The kids woke up early and usual, but because we went to bed late as usual, we didn't get up till 7:00ish... We enjoyed pumpkin pie and egg nog for breakfast as usual. 




The line-up!  Not much to see this year as the stockings were just filled with goodies.  But they still went in one at a time.  Elden was first this year.
























We put little cereal boxes in each stocking.  One of Lee's favorites!






First Lee opened the service box.  He read what we each had done for service to each other during December.


Then present time!  Cal saved up LOTS of money and bought Lee a fun Lego car set and a 5 pound bag of gummy worms. Cal also found a cracked iPhone in a ditch near our house.  Clark charged it up and they gave it to Lee.  Too funny.  It works, but of course is locked.


The gift time!  The kids got each other gifts as well.  Haley made this awesome card for Cal as well. She bought him an awesome Star Wars Lego set.




Clark bought Haley two Pokemon boxes.  He spent more on her than we did on our present to Haley!




Shanna's gift from us was an iPod shuffle.


Clark received a synthesizer from us.  Sadly he knew about it before Christmas.  There was some damage on the package so Lee took some pictures of the box and sent it to the seller just to check.  Clark for some reason saw the photos.  RATS!  But he was a still a happy camper on Christmas!




It was a Lego year and Cal got a VW camper van from us.







Shanna gifted Clark her pocket operator synth, some batteries and some treats.


Cal gave Elden a Lego set as well...a Star Wars ship.


Elden gave Shanna some walkie talkies.


A family gift!  Some dried bugs, ha ha.


Haley received a Mech dragon from us.


Elden recieved this Lego City from us.



Lee's brother Paul and sister-in-law Cindy gave us this ice cream maker!  So sweet of them!


Here is the phone Cal gifted Lee, ha ha.




Clark jamming on the synth.


Lego building time!






I had to get this light kit for the VW camper van.


We got a decent family photo....it took a couple of tries.  Thanks to Brooklyn, Shanna's friend.


We went on an outing to bring some gifts to our friends, then over to the nursing home.


Normally we do not go out in PJs, but on Christmas day and we were all matching...I thought it would be fine.


A the nursing home we saw three people, said hi and gave them little Christmas gifts. It was sad to leave and think about how lonely they must be.










The kids went home and Lee and I went and visited two more neighbors.  That night we had BBQ nachos, watched movies, played a game and went to bed.  It's so sad when Christmas ended! But it was a lovely day!  Merry Christmas everyone!