On Christmas Day, we enjoyed the luxury of sleeping in late--itself always a treat. Then we headed up to Clay, Jenny, and Emily Perkins' house for a relaxing celebration of Christ's birth.
First, and most importantly, I got John to join me in wearing pajamas all day--it helped that he had fun new fuzzy pants with deer heads and a camo cap to wear with his fuzzy jacket.
Anyway, we then headed up north to Cave Creek for a family feast and gift exchange. First, the meal: smoked turkey and pork butt, a smattering of side dishes like cornbread casserole, baked beans, and sweet potatoes. YUM!
After the tasty meal, we had a white elephant-type gift exchange. As you can see, Tina was pretty happy with the gift Cole wound up with: Bailey's.
One of the gifts wound up being a lot of fun--once we figured out the instructions (thank you John).
After a fun round of Yahtzee free for all, we gals played some Rummikub while the guys spent quality time with the Wii. Cole and John boxed, and then John, Cole, Clay, and Logan all played doubles tennis.
All in all, it was quite a fun day. The only down side is that John has been fighting some sort of flu-like-bug for a few weeks now and it came back full force overnight. He's spent the majority of the last day and a half in bed. Hopefully all this sleep will get rid of this before we leave for New Mexico on Tuesday!
Finally, in case I missed anyone in the distribution of our Christmas letter, I thought I'd go ahead and post it on here...unfortunately we couldn't get the upload to work right so that you could read the letter. So let me know if you'd like me to email you a copy instead.
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