Friday was Christmas eve and we got to celebrate with the Hillebrand/Barrett families at our house. Its wonderful having parties at our house for one, it's a great excuse to deep clean the house and the 2nd, we don't have to drive anywhere. The party started about 4:30, we made the famous ham sandwiches that mom always makes and everyone brought snack food.
Here are a few pictures that we took over the Holiday weekend.
Here we are waiting for everyone to come, Tom and Linda came up early to help get organized. We watched the movie Hairspray while we were waiting.
Not sure what Tom's doing here, looks like he's picking something out of his teeth.
Tom checking out the weather outside. It snowed all night and all day. I think he and Brandon were out twice plowing snow. Everything's all ready!
Brandon playing with Patches. We got her tail coozie on, but she wouldn't keep it on.
Family pictures
Not quit sure what I'm dong here.
Micayla outside to clean off the satellite dish. We couldn't get a signal, can you see all the snow? It was like this all day and night. We finally got to watch TV!
The party has started!
Christmas morning. Tom and Linda spent the night so they were with us while opening presents. They bring all there presents as well.
Tom making waffles with his new Belgin Waffle maker, boy were they good!
Brandon handing out the presents.
Look at the stacks of presents!
Brandon got the Kinect for XBox360
Linda answering a text message.
Micayla loves her "M" necklace!
I think this is the ornament Tom and Linda got me. It was a "Christmas Story" ornament.
Brandon listening to his new Tooks headset. It's a hat with built in speakers that can hook into his IPod.
Tom opening up his new GPS. This will come in handy when they drive to Arizona next month.
Tom's new Bears mug from Micayla
Linda opening her new pots and pans for her new kitchen
Here we are at Mom and Dad's
And at the Hendricks Christmas. Dave Brauhn playing the guitar while we all sing Christmas carols before Santa comes.
Grandma and Grandpa Hendricks - wow are they missed!
Here comes Santa!
The 2nd generation "Hendricks" women, there were 11 of us that participated in the While Elephant game. I ended up with a new scarf and a pair of earrings. Loved it
Dad, if you can find him back by Grandma and Grandpa, and his 4 sisters.
We were the only ones here representing the Hendricks family. Hopefully there will be more next year!
That about sums up our Holiday weekend. The only thing that I'm missed this year was family pictures. I don't think we did any pictures up at mom and dad's. I would have liked a couple of the boys but wow, time just flew by and I don't think anyone got any.
Oh and I got exactly what I wanted, a new Bulova watch and a pair of earrings. Tom sure spoiled me, he's the best! I think the kids got exactly what they wanted as well. We played a few games of bowling on Kinect and I'm ready to learn some others. It's pretty fun!
Back to the grind tomorrow. I'm hoping next year I will be able to take a few days off between Christmas and New Year's. Tom's off all week, but he deserves it, he hasn't had any time off all year.
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