Merry Christmas

We have been having fun with my family here in cold, cold Ohio.

Fuller fell our first day here, so most of our pictures of him show him sporting this reminder of his face plant. He was playing with my mom's exercise ball, fell off of it, and skinned his nose perfectly on the carpet. And since we were heading upstairs to eat dinner, it made for a really fun dining experience.

Tomorrow is when we will have our Christmas dinner, so we can relax on Christmas morning opening presents for thirteen people. In 2004 we did something similar, eating our big meal a few days early to accommodate family travel. Christmas morning we enjoyed about four hours of opening gifts for 20 or so people. We don't anticipating it taking four hours this year, but we want to be leisurely and enjoy the gift giving (and receiving) experience. And yes, we open one gift at a time in our family.

If I don't get back until the last scrap of wrapping paper has been trashed, then I want to go ahead and extend a Merry Christmas from our family to yours.

And if I do find a few minutes to hang out here, just think of it like an extra Christmas gift!