Christmas 2008 Continued

This weekend has gone WAY too fast.  I can not believe it is already Sunday night.

Yesterday we had lunch over at my dad’s sister’s.  There was one new engagement and two new puppies there.  Otherwise, it was pretty status quo…dinner, presents and wait, we did play a Dirty Santa game.  We’re not really the game playing kind of family but we had A LOT  of fun.  Here is one cute picture of Emma, Lexi and my cousin “getting Nana comfortable”.

When we got done there we were supposed to catch the tail end of a family reunion but only caught my aunt and my mom’s cousin in the parking lot. I’ll have to tell a story from there in another post…

We spent the evening at my mom’s dad’s house. It was a nice time but nothing exceptionally blogworthy. There was a cute moment when Lexi was looking at all their Christmas cards that were taped on a door and I asked which ones she liked and she said “All the ones with Jesus”. Both kids have been fascinated with the nativity scene this year.

Today was spent at my mom’s sister’s house. It was at least an hour drive and we spent all afternoon there. We made a stop at my cousin’s house on the way back but it was basically an all-day event. One thing interesting there was that Emma and Lexi spent almost the entire afternoon playing “war” with my two boy cousins that are near their ages. This was probably the first time all the kids went outside for so long without constant supervision and were perfectly happy that way. My aunt lives on five acres of land and we were out in the middle of nowhere. The kids played near the house and seemed content to play with two guns my boy cousins had and the rocks on the ground. They were cold and dirty when they came in but we had to drag them away. Definitely not what I’m used to at home.

My aunt also has an old building on their land which belongs to her husband’s family. I think they said the building was the second largest John Deere retailer several years back. Now it just looks like a rundown concrete building with barn doors but I knew it would make for some great photos. I dragged (drug?) Scott out of the house and round up the kids for a few pictures. I just wish we had more time and it hadn’t been so cold. Emma and my cousin took some of these so I’m happy they came out as well as they did.