Santa came and filled the kids sacks with some fun gifts this year. Uncle Jeff and Aunt Britt came to town with Lauren to spend Christmas with everyone too, because they didn’t have anyone home this year as Maddi was on her mission, Parker was with Jaydra’s family in Utah, and Alec was with his girlfriend Cait in Idaho. So they came over Christmas morning to witness the little boys excitement for their gifts.
Ryan got his Nintendo Switch, a gift we made Santa hold off on for as long as we could. Kate got a phone, another gift we tried to hold off on for as long as we could. Zach scored some Eagles gear to add to his obsession and Preston got some Buzz Light-year dress ups and Spider-Man toys.
The biggest gift to our family was a Treager smoker. Smoking meat is becoming quite the trend and after following the wife of the Treager CEO, and seeing all the food she was making on their smoker, I thought we needed one for our family. Thankfully uncle Brandon was in town to help dad put it together.
We hosted Christmas dinner at our house. We also invited our friends, the McCauleys, over for dinner and to join the festivities. Justin entertained everyone with his trivia, and introduced the new game LCR to the family. Everyone brought $5 ones and gathered around in a circle to roll the dice at their chance to win the big pot of money at the end. Zach scored the big money this year! Everyone, especially the teens and uncle Andy, were huge fans of the new game. I think we found a new tradition. Its safe to say that it didn’t really keep in mind the Spirit or true meaning of why we celebrate Christmas, but it did bring us all together and definitely spread lots of love and cheer.
