We had a wonderful Christmas vacation, and greatly enjoyed spending so much time with our family! We made it out to the Steele farm Sunday night, and spend that night through Christmas morning with the Steele side of the family. On Monday Dad's older sister, her husband, and their youngest son came over for supper and the opening of presents. Carl got the board game Stratego from our grandparents, so we all played that for a while that night. It took a while to brush up on the rules of play, as we hadn't played the game in several years, but it wasn't too long before we got the hang of it again. Christmas Eve another of Dad's sisters came from the Cities to spend time with her parents (and us, of course!).
Christmas Day was spent at a cousin's house in the Cities. It was really good to see everyone again, but 21 people in a not-so-big house sure was interesting! :-) Afterwards, we left for my grandma's house; and we ended up taking an extra passenger. Our cousin Tony, 13, wanted to come with us, and after clearing it with everyone, spent Christmas evening through the next Sunday morning with us. That made for some really fun times! Hide-and-seek in the dark (and I do mean DARK) basement, and our "hot-potatoe/dodgeball" game were huge hits throughout the time spent together. We were very thankful that the roads were perfectly clear, and made it home just fine on Sunday.
(This picture is of Carl and Tony's "Feet of Fury." I think I'll just leave it at that.) :-)
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