Christmas 2009

It MUST be Christmas!  There were reindeer hoof prints and boot prints on the sidewalk leading up to my front door.

Christmas morning started with a hike for me and the coonhound.  A little storm had cleared out all of the icky inversion and it was a glorious morning. 

When I returned from my hike I checked my cell phone and found a message from Mom letting me know that her plane was on time and that, because Rick had forgotten to take his employee ID badge to the airport, he and the dogs had been forced to stay behind.  We missed you Rick, and we missed meeting the wiener dogs.

After I picked up Mom from the airport we stopped at the Hugoe/Tilley home. Colton arrived home from spending Christmas morning with his dad not long after we got there, and we were able to watch him open his presents.

After the presents were opened Colton wanted to have a Nerf gun war.  Me, Mom, Denise, Brian and Colton had a great time shooting at each other with foam bullets.  Jo was sick and Sean was out fixingsomeone's furnace, so we didn't see much of them

 

After the war it was time to eat.  Once again, Brian deep fried a turkey for us.  When he originally pulled the turkey out of the fryer after about and hour and a half it was still pink on the inside.  He put it back into the fryer and unfortunately we left it there a little too long.  When he took it out of the fryer the second time around it was burnt to a crisp.  We were able to salvage some meat by cutting deep into the bird.

I found another source of meat that we could use, but Denise was not amused.

After spending the day in Woods Cross we packed up some more presents and went to the

Thompson home in Ogden.  Unfortunately most of my pictures at their house didn't turn out, so I am hoping that someone else took some pictures that they can blog.

The girls each got a My Generation doll either from their parents or Santa, which they insist on calling Liv dolls.  Grandma gave each of them a horse to go along with their dolls and they spent the evening bathing, grooming, and putting make-up (my contribution) on their horses.

On Saturday we spent all afternoon at the Murray house eating yummy food, chatting, and opening gifts.  I forgot to take any pictures at all, so again, I am hoping that someone else thought to take pictures for the blog.  After we left the Murray home we went over to Sean's house for some seafood gumbo and another Nerf war.

Sunday morning we relaxed a little bit, then we went out to lunch with the Thompson's before I had to take Mom back to the airport.  It was a whirl wind weekend, but lots of fun.