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The Bunch Celebrate Christmas

Cookie had the Force used on her.

She apparently recovered by having a timed reading contest.


Oh, what a fun season this has been! We have been so busy enjoying our time with family and friends. We went to Denison to see a wonderful drive thru light display. It was by far one of the best we have seen. It runs on donations only, but they had all LED lights that were well kept and very sharp looking. We actually drove through it twice because we loved it so much.


The pictures don't do it justice, but it was really neat.








I surprised my husband and kids by taking them to an indoor sky diving facility to celebrate my husband's birthday. It was fun. Basically a huge fan blows you up in the air. The kids had the wind at about 75mph and my husband and oldest son had it set about 94 mph. It is loud with that much wind blowing. My oldest daughter refused to try it and I couldn't because of my ears, but we had a great time watching them have fun.


L had a blast too!


D goes up high!


We made him homemade whoopie pies.

The girls and I had a baking day. We made cookies for my husband to take to work and for the neighbors. We made peppermint oreo balls, sugar cookies --that took L 2 hours to pipe--, chocolate crinkle cookies with a candy cane Hershey kiss, and chocolate dipped pretzels--that the girls were disappointed they loved so much because it took them FOREVER to hand dip all the pretzels.
Cookies

More Cookies

L spent a LONG time making these look cute.

Dipping the oreo balls in chocolate....they were fantastic!


This probably took the longest, but they did a great job.

We had a Christmas lunch at our house on the 23rd. My parents, our oldest son and his family, and my husband's Aunt joined us. The next day we had lunch and a gift exchange with my husband's family and we ate Christmas breakfast at my parent's house. We had a wonderful time celebrating with everyone.
My oldest, his girl friend, and T.


My parents

My in laws...I totally LOVE my father in laws sweater...D needs one!

Only my D is paying attention to me taking pics.

The boys

Christmas morning

It was really early!

Santa gave her a new apron. It is so cute. Reminds me of I Love Lucy.

What a great morning...even if it does start really early.

Yep, he in fact can fit inside the box.





Christmas is such a wonderful time and don't be surprised if you still see my tree up next month. It took a lot to get it here and it still looks pretty good, Plus my daughter asked why we couldn't just keep a tree in the living room. "It looks cool". How can I argue with a 15 yr old's logic? Enjoy our tree!

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