The big day in December

I forgot to post our Christmas Eve dinner so I'll start with that.  I had asked everyone a few days earlier if they could pick one thing to have what would it be.  Talon said Cheese fries, Tanner said a cheese ball, Cynjyn said mozzerella sticks, Taz said sliders (so did I ) and Garry said onion rings.  So that is what we had.  I added some lil smokies and waffle fries and we called it unhealthy, um I mean dinner.

I am famous for being the first one up on Christmas day.  Which is apparently ironic because I'm the oldest in my family.  But I was always the first one up!  After discussing the night before that we would all sleep in and we decided that anytime after 8am was fine, I was side awake at 7am.  So I came out to the family room so I could let Garry sleep.  Here I am waiting and wondering?!

Taz came down at 7:30 and opened his fuzzy socks  he got in his stocking along with all the delicious goodies Santa hand picked for each individual child.  Taz got dried fruit, Candy Crush fruit snacks and an XXL bag of peanut M & M's.  He really is happy in this picture. 

By 8am he'd had enough even Sparky could console him, so he went in the living room and played the piano as loud as he could. 

It worked.  Cynjyn was the next to come down.  She got chocolate and Twix and Cheetos and make up in her stocking.

Tanner was greeted by Sparky and even had a smile on his face.(that's rare for him and it being so early in the morning.)  He got a stuffed raccoon and almond clusters and shortbread cookies and pretzels and Reisens and crispy pops.

Talon was the last to arrive and he got triscuts and canned cheese, sweet onion chips, terriyaki jerky, candy crush fruit snacks and chocolate covered cherries. 

Taz was pleasantly suprised this year.  He didn't think he was getting anything because of his letterman's jacket, but he did get a few things.  A new pro series Kendama, camoflauge sweats outfit, a Dwight Schrute bobble head and a Dwight Shrute poster and a Schrute beet farms shirt.  He also got some DVD's and a few video games.  Talon got him a Tom Brady jersey! The kids draw names and they drew each other and so Talon wrapped a deck of cards because that was one thing Taz had requested and when Taz opened it it said go look in the pantry for your real gift.  He loved it!

Tanner and Cynjyn scored in the clothes department this year.  Tanner's list was shirts, jackets and leather gloves.  He got shirts, leather gloves and a leather jacket.  Cynjyn's list was over sized sweaters, skinny jeans long cardigans, combat boots and crop tops.  She got all of them, but this was her favorite outfit.  Her four favorite gifts were her One Direction perfume, The Marauder's map from Harry Potter and a Love Potion necklace from Harry Potter and a shirt that says "I solemnly swear that I am up to no good"  a quote from HP. 

Santa brought us a ping pong table this year. And boy was it a chore to put together!! It took all morning.  Everyone started out helping.

Talon and Garry did a lot of the initial work.

Cynjyn sat downstairs amongst the mess taking pictures of her favorite things.

Talon took a break.  He got a netty pot and netty salts and netty oil and I crocheted him a beard beannie as a joke which he ended up being excited about.  He is getting a Playstation 4 for Christmas/birthday combined, but you just can't find them in the stores, so he's getting it as soon as we can find one.

Tanner stepped in, Taz took a break

But we finally got it up and played all day, all week, still playing!

Cynjyn got hair extensions and braided her hair really cute.

I tried out the curly ones.

We had a little snafu with our dinner.  We were having prime rib and according to the website Garry looked on it would only take 1 1/2 hours to cook the size we got, so we started it at 4:30.  Apparently it was frozen in the middle by the bone, so it ended up taking way way longer.  Finally at 8:45 pm we ate dinner.  In the mean time, we played PIT and 31 even Cynjyn played and we ate some cheese and crackers and oh yea, Talon hacked my phone and took these to entertain himself!

But the dinner was good, we had prime rib, red roasted potatoes, yams, roasted asparagus, and broccoli salad.  Delicious and a very merry way to end a very merry day.