Overall this Christmas was good, typical, but good. Everyone is ready for next year when there will be 6 month old entertainment to make things more exciting!!
Ben and I had our Christmas at home Wednesday night. Deer nuggets, fried potatoes, beer for him and then presents with each other and Tucker. Tucker seems to hit the mother load every year, and this year did not disappoint. He's quite fond of his new bed, and got lots of toys and treats!!
Of course, this was our first Christmas without Grandaddy, and that was a big difference without him, but we had so many great Christmas' before with him, so we could just remember all the good things about him.....and still harass the dog Sadie!
We had Christmas Eve at Memaw's, which always involves eating way too much food, presents and dressing up Sadie in leftover gift wrap!!
Not sure what the bond is with Matt and Sadie, but it's caught on video on the post below and then we have the "posed" picture, here....so funny!!
We then got to spend Christmas morning at Mom and Dad's along with Memaw and had a relaxing breakfast and then grazed over all of mom's goodies for a quick lunch before we hit the road to Missouri.
We headed up to the nursing home in Perryville, MO where Grandma Lilly is at. We got to spend about 45 minutes with her before it was their 4:30 pm dinner time. She seemed to be better to me than when I saw her last this summer.
We made a brief stop in at Ben's Aunt Donna's house in Frohna to see that crew and then on to Lucy's house for Dinner. Got to see Uncle Terry and all of Lucy's family, great bunch of people! Someone else even makes Ham Ball like mom, so I got my ham ball this year even though it wasn't moms!
Finally headed back to Sikeston to open presents there with Bud, Susan and Micah. We also got to skype in to Ben's Aunt Janie's in Lost Springs, KS so we got to see all of her side of the family as well. It was nice to see everyone on Christmas night even if it wasn't in person.
The rest of the weekend consisted of being lazy. Ben went up in the woods in Frohna muzzle load hunting both Saturday and Sunday morning. I even got up at 4am on Sunday to go with him....I didn't hunt....to cold for me, but me and Tucker stayed in the cabin in the woods with the heat on high and slept and then played games on my ipod until Ben gave up on deer for the year. Got to see some other friends Saturday night, the Lorenz's and got to see Parker!!! He's such a cutie pie and looks just like his daddy Nathan.
Finally headed back to Utica Sunday evening and was very very happy to be sleeping in our own bed, and that includes Tucker! He was so hard up for a bed Saturday night at Ben's parents that he slept on Ben's coat in my suitcase! He's a creative dog!
So hope everyone else had a great Christmas!!
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