We spent Christmas Eve through early the next week at home due to a huge blizzard. We were able to dig out in time to meet Megan and Ben up and the lake cabin, but not before the Gravholts headed down to AZ. This Christmas was all about the Wii. We have dozens of games- including Rock Band and Beatles Rock Band along with guitar, drums and mic. We spent quite a bit of time playing this over the holiday. For being dead set that we would never own a video game device to our current setup... well... never say never, I guess.
The kids- and the rest of us- spent a ton of time sledding. The hill next to Mattern's goes all the way from the top of the bluff down to the lake, so we fashioned a luge so that we didn't hit docks or trees. So we could go all the way from the top, over the hump at the shore and down onto the frozen lake. Several of us has bruised tailbones to prove it. Lucy and Jasper got new sleds from Santa, so they were all set to go. Lucy tended to go down laughing and just resting on top of the sled- no hands- most of the time. The big kids (us) were really into it too. Molly and I, Megan and Ben, YaYa did a lot of sledding during the week. Abby and JoJo joined us for New Years, so we went out (all of us sans the little ones) at midnight to sled. It was a lot of fun. Ben had the idea to write out 2010 in the snow on the lake, so we did that. You could see it pretty well from the porch, so pictures are included in another post.
Megan fashioned a very elaborate treasure hunt for Abby, Lucy and Jasper with clues that sent them all around the house to find their prizes. I bet it took Megan the majority of a day to prep for it- if not longer. New Years Eve we also played lots of games... including one where Abby's foot was smashed into a egg and another where Ben had to change clothes the half the people there at one point in time... priceless.
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