We had 15 people altogether with a long table in the most upstairs room. The food was excellent! Laura and I took advantage of the husband/wife system of ordering steak and crab cakes and then sharing. Surf and turf, baby! We got to do that two nights in a row, considering we had my office Christmas party at the Harryman House on the night before.
Then came Christmas eve. After Kinzie went to sleep, Laura and I opened our gifts to each other. I gave Laura the Nikon Coolpix 560, with the touch-screen that Ashton Kutcher advertises. She loved it and many of her photos will appear later in this blog post.
Laura got me the Ravens helmet hoodie that I wanted so bad, plus a canopy tent and portable grill/cooler for tailgating. They were all great gifts and I can't wait till Jimmy Buffett announces his 2009 tour dates so I can start preparing!
Here is how the Christmas tree looked with all of Kinzie's presents wrapped underneath.
We left Santa Claus a glass of milk and some peanut butter cookies... (he really enjoyed them!)
After Santa left, we woke our little girl up....
She was so adorable in her Christmas 'jammies.
One of her most favorite gifts was the white-sparkle Tinkerbell dress.
She enjoyed walking down the steps to show it off to us. 
Here is the whole family in the pile of presents. ... lots of Disney dvds!
Our first stop of the day was the Sroka family. Here is Mackinzie with her cousins, Brooke and Emma.
Laura got to try out one of the cool features of her Coolpix camera... the touch-screen drawing.
Laura's brother, Josh, got a Shock Ball for me. Its like a hot potato, only it gives off a pretty powerful electric shock at random intervals. Its pretty awesome and rivals the Ravens helmet hoodie as my favorite Christmas gift of the year.
Here I am with Josh. I was able to find a dvd copy of the 1989 Orioles "Why Not" video for Josh.
Here is Mackinzie with Pop-pop and Gigi.
After lunch and exchanging gifts with the Sroka family, it was off to my parents' house for the Rode portion of Christmas.
Nannie got big hugs from Kinzie for bringing more gifts from Santa.
... and Laura got to try out more of her touch-screen drawing on Will...
... and Brittany.
Kinzie loves playing with Uncle Playdoh!
... and her older cousin, Audrey. They shared Grandpop's massage chair and watched "Sleeping Beauty" together.
When it was all said and done, we had lots of trash to throw out. Trash day finally comes tomorrow, so our living room has pretty much looked just like this for almost a week now.
So that is Christmas 2008 all wrapped up into one blog post. 2009 is just around the corner and baby Maeby will be here before you know it!
-Bert
Here is the whole family in the pile of presents. ... lots of Disney dvds!
Our first stop of the day was the Sroka family. Here is Mackinzie with her cousins, Brooke and Emma.
Laura got to try out one of the cool features of her Coolpix camera... the touch-screen drawing.Laura's brother, Josh, got a Shock Ball for me. Its like a hot potato, only it gives off a pretty powerful electric shock at random intervals. Its pretty awesome and rivals the Ravens helmet hoodie as my favorite Christmas gift of the year.Here I am with Josh. I was able to find a dvd copy of the 1989 Orioles "Why Not" video for Josh.
Here is Mackinzie with Pop-pop and Gigi.
After lunch and exchanging gifts with the Sroka family, it was off to my parents' house for the Rode portion of Christmas.
Nannie got big hugs from Kinzie for bringing more gifts from Santa.
... and Laura got to try out more of her touch-screen drawing on Will...... and Brittany.Kinzie loves playing with Uncle Playdoh!
... and her older cousin, Audrey. They shared Grandpop's massage chair and watched "Sleeping Beauty" together.
When it was all said and done, we had lots of trash to throw out. Trash day finally comes tomorrow, so our living room has pretty much looked just like this for almost a week now.
So that is Christmas 2008 all wrapped up into one blog post. 2009 is just around the corner and baby Maeby will be here before you know it!-Bert
1 comment:
I have to make a note that the lovely artwork on the will and brittney pictures were done by themselves ;) ... haha... made me giggle :)
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