Christmas morning was spent at Brandon and Michelle's and with Parker and Emily. They had us over for breakfast and to watch the kids open presents. It is so nice having some of our grand kids living close.
Then we went back to our house and Brooke and Pat came over and opened presents. Brooke was her Daddy's little elf and did his shopping for him. But that was great because she sure picked out a very pretty Jewel box for me.
It is hard to set new Christmas traditions now that our kids have grown. But we have many good memories of the Christmases past. As long as I can remember we had a Christmas Eve party at my mom and dad's, it was also their anniversary. They would have been married 72 years this Christmas (WOW). After some of the kids were married, we took turns with mom in having the Christmas Eve party. When I was a teenager several of them were at Sherry's in Center. As our family grew most of our parties were at Renie's as she had the biggest room. It was nice to go to the Norton's again for our Christmas Eve party this year. Brandon, 
Michelle, kids, and Pat & Brooke also went with us. We laughed so hard at Matt being a hopping like a bunny using his hands for ears and saying "funny bunny" over and over with 6 big marshmallows in his mouth. And then there was Pat V. with is plastic wig on and doing an Elvis impression sang "I ain't nothing like a hound dog". Erica and Tate did a great job on coming up with that game.
We had a wonderful Christmas, later that afternoon we had the family come and eat and play games. It was snowing and the wind was blowing hard so we had to cut the evening short before the roads were drifted closed between here and Manassa. We definitely had a "white" Christmas and a great one.
