This Christmas we had a full house. My mom, dad, brother, sister-in-law and nephew were in Huntington when we arrived. In our car, we brought me, Aaron, Elijah, Terrence, and our friend Justin. Justin is originally from Hong Kong and was unable to return for the Holidays, so he came to Good Ole’ WV. I can hardly believe we fit everything in the car! Thank goodness we gave away more than we received this year.

Our family in front of the Christmas tree.

Christmas dinner, we had more food than we knew what to do with.

Christmas dinner, the other side of the table. Of course, my mom is stuck taking most of the photos.

Mom made one photo! Christmas morning, BEFORE present madness.

Our 2nd annual Christmas ping pong tournament. Tim, my nephew, and Terrence were up first.

Tim and Aaron made it to the finals, and Aaron won, but not without a valiant fight from Tim.

Little man wearing his Santa hat.

“Am I too young to play Santa?”

Here I am warming myself by the “fire.” Every year we watch/listen to the Yule Log. My brother finally just bought a DVD of the Yule Log with Christmas music. Doesn’t produce a lot of warmth, but it is nice in the background. I was sporting a tunic with leggings, not sure I can pull that look off, but it sure is comfortable!

Instead of everyone buying gifts for everyone, we do a white elephant gift exchange. The gifts are $25 or less and we play a little game to see who gets what. It can often be a little competitive and some of us (me) choose to hide their gift so no one will steal their gift. This is Justin opening his white elephant gift….not sure it’s what he wanted, but it was fun to see what he got.

My white elephant gift was two games, Say Anything and 3D Blockus. I really wanted to keep them, but I’m pretty sure my brother wanted to steal them from me. In the end, he kept his gift and let me keep mine!

My brother opening his first white elephant gift…which was eventually stolen. Not to worry, he ended up with a pretty good one!

Cousins
We had a fantastic Christmas day! Fun was had by all.