Sunday, December 31, 2017

What-What?! Week of December 31st

Happy New Year!

I have about a million pictures from Christmas.

On Christmas Eve, we let the kids open one present each (in the afternoon, so they'd have time to play):

Osric opened up a Playmobil set.

Saffron got a My Little Pony doll set.

Corwin opened up a Star Wars AT-AT toy.

The husband opened a video game (Diablo III), and I also got a video game (Okami)

I don't seem to have any other pictures from Christmas Eve -- we had ham, Yorkshire pudding, sweet potatoes and cranberry sauce for dinner.  We're still eating ham.

A photo after "Santa" visited -- very quickly ran out of space under the tree...

We had a white Christmas -- a good 2-3 inches of snow.

The husband made cinnamon rolls for breakfast -- yum!


And then... presents!







The big kids both started reading their books after they were done opening presents.






This is the book Corwin got -- it's a pretty cute story, and very much up is alley.  When he gets a bit older, I think he'll enjoy the show a lot.

I found these Playmobil Ghostbusters sets on Amazon, and picked one up for each of the kids.  In total, we now have a Staypuft Marshmallow Man set, a Slimer hotdog stand set, and a Demon Dog set.





In the afternoon, we went out to play in the snow.


Getting snowballs ready.


Our conical snowman -- he lasted a good 3 days or so.


Playing with the neighbors.

I also got a puzzle with birdies -- only 500 pieces, but pretty hard because half the pieces are green and yellow.

Sunday, December 24, 2017

What-What?! Week of December 24th

Happy Christmas!

It is COOLD outside.  We've been seeing lows in the mid-low 20s, and it should snow this evening.

Not too much else going on here; we played D&D again yesterday and killed some hobgoblins.  The husband and I are sick and pretty miserable still -- we caught whatever Corwin had last week.

Today's plans are to sit around at home and do as close to nothing as possible; I plan on playing games, doing some cooking in preparation for Christmas dinner, and maybe even watching TV.

Hope all you out there have a good Christmas too.  We'll be sending you packages with gifts as soon as we're feeling better. :) <3