Christmas Day

Wednesday, January 9, 2025

Christmas morning was a great start to a great day. The kids slept in so we got a good sleep. We were also able to open the gifts one at a time so we can all enjoy what each of us received. That is tough to do when there are forty people opening gifts.

Mom had her nice egg breakfast ready so we also got to enjoy a good meal and everything went peacefully. I got a lot of cool gifts, I just hope I can remember them all. First and foremost, Brandon and Ally bought us tickets to Disneyland. Now days that is over $200 and we had a glorious day with Brandon and Kira’s families. More on that later. Let me try and make a list of my gifts.

Element Socks                                Santa

Windup Fred Flintstone                  Santa

A bar of fancy soap                         Mom

Shaving Kit                                     Mom

Worm Hotel                                    Mom

Nuts in shell                                    Mom

Solar Battery Charger                     Mom

Sweat Pants                                     Mom

Fleece Jacket                                   Mom

Nice Jacket                                      Mom

Star Trek Ship                                 Mom

History of Engineering                   Mom

Rubber Duck Spock                       Kira & Justin

Engineering T Shirt                        Kira & Justin

Church Socks                                  Brandon & Ally

Spock Buddah (very cool)              Brandon & Ally

Nice Fluffy Blanket                        Alycia & Trevor

Coming next week                          Sarah & Sam

Glass Swan Tree Ornament            Charlotte

Replacement window Screen          Andrews

Electric Salt & Pepper Grinder       Andrews

After we got the Turkey in the oven we then headed up to Black Mountain Park and shot off rockets. I finally got tired of the rocket controller being so finicky that I made my own controller. It worked flawlessly.

The weather was perfect so we all spent a lot of time outside enjoying my new yard and the deck.

After a wonderful Christmas dinner, we headed to Torrey Pines to enjoy a short hike.

And a beautiful sunset

About this time Kira and her family arrived so we rushed home and spent the evening together.

I love how Kira always dresses up for the season.

At some point we started playing games which went far too late. What fun.

It turns out that Sydney and Rosalie struggle with Tellustrations. The point of the game is that you are given a word, and you need to draw a picture so the next guy beside you can guess the word. If these girls aren’t sure of what the picture represents, they answer with a sentence even though they know the answer is one maybe two words. On the other hand, if they are given a word, their art skills leave a lot to be desired. Let me give you an example of probably the best artwork of the entire Christmas vacation, maybe the best ever.

Sydney was given the word “snot”. She tried to draw a picture of a nose with snot coming out of the nose. This is the picture she drew. 

Justin sat next to her, can you guess what word Justin guessed?

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2 U.S carrier battle groups have equal firepower to the rest of the worlds blue water navies combined. And we have 12 of these with 3 more on the way.

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