Christmas Day

Christmas is coming to a close here in a couple hours. It was a pretty packed 24 hours. Last night we went over to Rick and Sue’s place (Erin’s aunt and uncle) for Christmas Eve festivities. The whole Aune clan was there. There was a little food to be eaten, and some presents to exchange. They do boy and girl gifts. All the boys bring one present, and all the girls bring one present. Then every boy draws a number and every girl draws a number, and when your number is called you grab a present from the boy pile if your a boy, and from the girl pile if your a girl. We left there and headed over to an 11:00 PM church service in Cook. That lasted until a little after midnight, which put us back at Erin’s house at 1:00 AM. So it was a late night. This morning we were up around 6:45 AM, and did the present opening thing. I was lucky enough to get a sweatshirt, a knife, a fossil watch, and some candy. We went over to her grandparents place (for those of you that don’t know, that’s a 10 second walk) and watched Erin’s cousins’ kids who are 4 and almost 2 open their presents from Santa. We chatted for a bit, and then it was time to head over to the other end of the lake to Erin’s mom’s house. We had a nice dinner over there, and opened presents. Erin and I got a feather bed, a new phone for our place (ours was on its last legs), I got a sweatshirt, and an iTunes gift card. Erin got a bracelet, some tootsie rolls, cocoa, and some perfume. After that we played the DVD version of “Trivial Pursuit”. Then it was time to head back over here. When we got back we watched a little bit of the Vikings game, I heard they ended up losing, and Erin has been uploading some pictures to the gallery. Hope you all like them. I am now tired out and ready to hit the sack. I hope everyone else’s Christmas was nice an relaxing.