'Just' six of us this year. Jenny & David stayed home because Jenny was a bit too pregnant to travel comfortably and the Leons decided to stay home. Last year's travel was difficult and daunting and not to be done again, at least not right away.
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'Just' six of us this year. Jenny & David stayed home because Jenny was
a bit too pregnant to travel comfortably and the Leons decided to stay home.
Last year's travel was difficult and daunting and not to be done again, at
least not right away.
Yay! We got our yard decorated early in December this time.
We tracked incoming flights on Christmas Day for both Grandmother and Lisa.
a bit of Holiday Fluxx.
Yes, Santa came.
Roger made a set of ornaments for Lisa, wrapped them each individually, and hung them
on the tree for her to find.
Planetary ornaments, by Roger
Trying out the new Tree game from Uncle Shelton & Aunt Dottie.
a game of Castles
On the 27th, we hosted a casual taco night for local relatives and the arriving
Freys.
Laurie brought over dessert.
Lisa and Gianna are creating a story together.
On the 29th, Anne made a simple dinner of spaghetti, and then decided to make
homemade rolls to go with it.
For New Year's Eve, we tried a new scheme: experiment with filling wonton wrappers.
The inspiration was an appetizer Laurie had done earlier in the year, so Anne
made cheese and sausage filling. Alan made cheese and raspberry chipotle filling, and
Lisa experimented with eggs.
The next day, we did dessert ones with pie filling
and cream cheese.
Happy New Year!
Settlers of Catan.
Meanwhile, Grandmother kept us company at the table and worked a Christmas puzzle.
Dominion
The next Christmas puzzle.
January 2nd: Lisa and Anne accompanied Grandmother to the airport. Unfortunately,
her flight was delayed by over 4 hours, but that did give us time to get a
leisurely lunch and do a bit more visiting. And then Lisa had to come
back to the airport the next day for her own flight home.