Christmas Holidays
Well, I have been very bad again and find myself way behind on my blog posts. So the next few posts are going to be catch-ups starting with Christmas through this week.So for Christmas, Kelly and I decided to have our own "mini" celebration before heading out of town and we spent the Saturday before opening presents from each other. As you may already know, I had already received my big gift on my birthday, but Kelly didn't want me to have nothing to open for Christmas, so she found some other cool gifts for me, including a coffee table, picture book from the "Planet Earth" series. It has some breath taking pictures. I also got the Charlie Brown Christmas CD, plus some Snowboarding apparel. The rest of that day we spent making cookies and candies for Christmas.
On Sunday we woke up to a wind storm. My parents were a little worried about us driving the 3 hours across the country-side in the storm because the snow was blowing around making visibility tough. We decided to brave it and it really wasn't too bad if you don't count the stop we made at the Dekalb, IL oasis where I had to fill the Jeep up in hurricane force winds. We really didn't have any trouble until we got off the interstate about 10 minutes from my parents house. The country highways were pretty slick and my Jeep fish tailed on me a couple of times. After the second time I decided to put it in 4WD and that seemed to do the trick.
For Christmas Eve we spent the evening at my Grandma's house across the road, with my aunt (dad's sister) and uncle and their kids. Luke and Clay couldn't make it because they were with their significant other's families. We had a nice time enjoying a ham dinner, opening presents, catching up and enjoying some homemade deserts.
Christmas morning at the Port's is usually reserved for opening presents with the immediate family, but due to schedules Clay and Luke couldn't make it until closer to noon. So Kelly and I spent the morning visiting with my Dad and helping my Mom get ready for the dinner she was preparing for her side of the family that afternoon. Once Luke, Rebecca, Clay and Danielle arrived we commenced with the gift exchanging. We usually let each person open one gift at a time so everyone can see, but by the end of the process, my mom's sisters began arriving so we had to quick open the rest all at once. Everyone had a good time and got some great gifts. My parents got me a new zoom lens for the camera that Kelly got me and Clay got me some cool stuff for my PSP and Luke got me a gift card to Best Buy among other things.
Later that afternoon we settled in and had a turkey dinner with my mom's sisters, their significant others and some of my cousins. After dinner we had a "white elephant" grab bag gift exchange that was fun and then had a regular gift exchange. My cousin Audra got me a gift certificate to Best Buy. After that Luke, Clay, Kelly and I played a game called "Landslide" where you try and accumulate votes and states to win a presidential election. It was a pretty interesting game that isn't made anymore. After that we joined the rest of the family in the living room for a few rounds of "Catch Phrase" that got pretty competitive but was so much fun that Kelly and I decided to go out and buy it ourselves. From there we spent the rest of our stay at the Port farm relaxing, playing some Halo 3 on my Dad's new 50" plasma and catching up with family. It was a really nice Christmas and I was really happy Kelly could experience it too! Hope everyone else had a great Christmas too!
Labels: Christmas, Family, Holidays
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