Did You All Enjoy Your Christmas?

[Blueyes]

I'm so glad you both had a good day!! Diana, if I had snow... and Janet, if I only had my mother... Well, I am so blessed in so many other ways

We had Christmas with my brothers and their families yesterday. Michael and his family got here Wednesday and will stay until Sunday. We all got up at 5:00 AM today and opened presents. The little boys got new bicycles, and SO DID I, lol!! It was a really cold, but beautiful day, so we got to go outside to play

You know, I would never have believed I could make such good friends with a bunch of people online. I talk about you all to my family, and they know you by name, lol!! I love you ladies!!

[Janet]

We love you too Betsi....very much. You know, I hadn't posted very much recently and the reason......because I when I need someone....you're all here and I feel so much warmth that I start crying and then can't finish the post.

I wish we could all be able to meet in one place and that it wouldn't be a financial burden to anyone.

[Blueyes]

Surely we can meet someplace and come up with something that wouldn't cost too much. I've never been to Indiana

I was so glad you had fun with your mom, Janet. I know how much you needed it. A fun, relaxing day can go a long way to ease stress between people. You take care of yourself, and know that we are here for you!!

[gja1000]

HI Everyone! What a wonderful thread to read the day after Christmas!!! I love you all too, and I talk about you all to my family also. We will figure out a way to meet up someday, I just know we will!

Since we are all traveling right after Christmas (more on that later), we opted to not cook for Christmas this year. So, we ate dinner together Christmas eve at Mimi's cafe. It was really good, and we had a great time together. We let Abigail and Emma open one gift at the restaurant and they were both please about that.

After dinner we went to my daughter's and we played Skip-Bo (card game) till it was time to go home. My daughter has been knitting scarves and her husband got a loom and has been making knit stocking caps - I've posted pictures below of the snowmen hats he made for Emma and another little boy. Anyway, they were working on the caps/scarves all the while we were playing cards. My daughter knitted a scarf for Gary while we were all playing cards and he didn't even know it was for him till she finished! Bryan made him a hat also at the same time.

We opened our presents at my daughter's Christmas morning at about 7:30. I got some New Mexico Indian pottery, a necklace, purse, and an iron (my request). It was so much fun to watch the grandkids open their presents.

After presents I fixed breakfast. Next, it was time for the kids to get ready to leave for Colorado.

Gary and I went home to get packed to leave for Oklahoma today. BUT........ Oklahoma has a gigantic snow storm (14 inches and 60 miles an hour wind) on Christmas eve, so we were iffy about going today. However, we have found the main roads are clear, so we plan to go.

However, my daughter and her family are not so lucky. They are stuck in the Texas panhandle due to icy roads, and I'm not sure whether they are going to continue on to Colorado or not. I'm waiting to hear. They only found a hotel room last night because they had kids with them. The hotel was turning everyone away because the rooms were not cleaned - housekeeping had not been able to get there yesterday), but when the manager found out my daughter and sil had kids with them, they cleaned a room for them. They are still there and I am waiting to see if they decide to go on or come back home. They are with friends who have a time share and it ends on Wednesday, so if it takes them too long to get there, they won't have much time to ski/play. We'll see.

I've posted some pictures from this LENGTHY story!!!

1. Snowmen hats my sil knitted from a loom
2. Emma wearing her snowman hat
3. Gary in the hat my sil knitted on the loom and the scarf my daughter knitted for him while we were playing cards.
4. Ice on the road in the Texas panhandle where my daughter and family are stranded right now!

[Janet]

Gayle those hats are adorable!!! Do they use patterns? I don't know much about looms, but they did a great job. I may have to google info about this, looks like something I would like to learn how to do.

That snow doesn't look good at all...so I hope everyone stays safe. We had lots of rain Christmas eve so when we woke up the snow was all gone except for very VERY small patches. This morning we woke up to the ground covered with snow again. The weather guy says we are to have more accumulation tomorrow. Grrrr...as you know...I'm not a big fan of snow...or the cold so I'm on a countdown to spring....lolol

[lynne b]

sounds like everyone had a good Christmas, I think everyone decided it's not the amount of money spent or number of presents gotten, but the time spent with family & friends that was more important this year, which is what X-mas is suppose to be all about. I know i stress out really bad at X-mas because it is the only time i really go all out for the kids & g-kids but seems the past couple of years i have had to cut back alot, the g-kids are getting older and really do seem to understand.
I have one more get together with the g-daughters today due to them having to split the day between mom & dad for the 1st time, made for a sad day for my daughter.

OMG Gayle those hats are so cute the snow not so cute!!!! Hope everyone that is traveling arrives safely to whever they are going, seems so strange that some of the place's are getting such bad storms, I hope we can avoid any of that this winter.

Hope everyone has a wonderful New year!!!!

[Lindsey]

Those snowman hats are adorable!

I had a really good Christmas! The little girls were so excited that Santa came and that he (I) wrote them a letter thanking them for the delicious cookies and the reindeer food! It took a LONG time to open presents since the girls got so much! Everyone loved the gifts I got them which made me really happy. My mom absolutely loved the bentwood rocker!

I got some little things like hair products, box of chocolates, and gift certificates. My parents also got me an electric skillet which I really needed for my kitchen, and a Magic Bullet. From the little girls, I got this gorgeous huge framed print of Marilyn Monroe from Playboy. I have attached the image below.

Last night Scott came back and brought presents from his parents. There were a few little things like dead sea mineral hand lotion and nail care stuff, and a cute little jacket! Scott ran to our room and said "There's one more thing!" and he gave me an evelope. Inside were tickets to the world junior hockey championship SEMI-FINALS!!! Those tickets are $150 each so I was shocked. He said don't worry about that, he actually WON them at work in a draw! Out of 600 people, HE won! So I'm really excited for that! My dad is taking me to two games this week, including the Canada-USA game on New Years Eve!

Now we're off to go boxing day shopping!