Christmas - 2009 Edition

Traditions - I never grow tired of them. The Christmas season is my favorite time of year and it isn't even close. School Christmas programs, the lights and Christmas tree, sharing our feelings about Christ, and the gift-giving (one on Christmas Eve, thank you). The way KR organizes the front room on Christmas morning, the staging of the walk down the stairs and into the front room, and lots of pictures. Secret Santa, Grandpa Merrill's and Jon's birthday parties, movies, and Championship Bingo. Christmas pajamas, nativity sets, lunch at Gustav's, reading books, and dress up. Trashing Grandma's toy room, mattress games (including the always-scary spider), Schweppes Bitter Lemon, and the perilous "Hoops of Death". Snow storms, the miniature Christmas city, the sledding-hill toy, puzzles, and Sweet's Orange Sticks. I love it all. Pardon the number of pictures - there were just too many good ones to choose from. One complaint though, the person that invented the doll that really poops, should be shot.