I’m finally posting Christmas pictures. We had a great Christmas morning. Brad’s sister, Karen, her husband, and their son were here to open presents with us. We made the kids wait in Carter’s room until we were all ready. Carter had forgot it was Christmas morning!

Carter’s favorite present was his Indiana Jones doll – after just a week of having it, he has memorized all the sayings that Indy says…in order!

Sam’s favorite present is the Dirt Devil vacuum cleaner. He loves pushing it around the house. Carter likes it, too – he vacuumed the whole house right along with me today!

Eating donuts:

Nora even got a Christmas treat:

After we opened presents, we took some cookies to the nurses on my floor who had to work that day. Then we headed over to Randy & Maria’s for ham, crab legs, and lobster tails.

The following day, we celebrated Christmas with Brad’s Mom and some delicious homemade pizza!

My MacBook Pro that is…

Backstory: I was doing some remodeling in the basement bathroom and accidentally shot liquid nail all over the wall and the keyboard of my laptop that happened to be on the back of the toilet playing some music. I had to completely dismantle it to clean the hardened goo out from between about 8 keys on the keyboard. This laptop is unbelievably complicated so I took a couple pics to show ya…  (click on each pic to see the “whoa that’s huge” version)

The first pic is of all of the parts spread out all over the kitchen table:

The second pic is a zoomed in picture. See the tiny black dots? Those are the 56 screws that hold just the keyboard in place… Fun times!

We had our first Christmas celebration yesterday at Mom at Dad’s. Everyone got some great gifts! Before the kids got crazy, we did some group shots.

Josh, Sheri & Brea:

Jake, Emily, Dinah & Paul:

Brad, Me, Carter & Sam:

All the grandkids:

Mom & Dad with all the grandkids:

Presents!

Hanging out after presents:

Pauly boy just couldn’t stand all the excitement:

This is pretty amazing, thought I’d share.

We made our annual Christmas card tonight and as usual it was a riot getting the 3 kids to cooperate so I thought I’d share the fun with a little video!