Christmas

Merry Christmas everyone! It has been an absolute fantastic day. We woke up around 7:30 this morning and we mostly watched my Cousins open up all their presents. They had quite the amount of loot to open. Laura and I had quite a few gifts exchanged between us as well. I think my favorite gift came from Laura, the First two seasons of "The Office". A close second, if not tied with, is a gift from my mom "Fire Emblem" for the Wii. I liked all the gifts I received they were all well thought out and I really enjoyed them. I even enjoyed all the clothing I received which is a rarity. I'm not much of a clothes person and if I'm getting it as a gift for Christmas it had better e something good and they all were.

Laura's favorite gift was from me. I got her a new digital camera. It was really nice and she loved it lots. She was so excited about it. I'm really glad she liked it.

We spent time playing together and eating. My aunt made a fantastic meal. Really yummy side dished and stuff. Mmm...

Now Christmas night has come and I am truly sleepy. It has been a wonderful day and very tiring. I was Santa's helper in building up some of the gifts that needed putting together last night. It was lots of fun. I can't wait for next year... Pictures to come later...

Christmas and such...

Well it has been a long while since I've had the time to properly get on here and place a post.  The nerf war did happen and we did have some video footage and then there was video footage malfunction so I never did get to posting anything about the war.  It was fun and for the first time I have been around playing it, someone was bleeding.  Not a lot but enough to say blood was shed during one of our wars.  It was actually quite humorous.  Another war is being planned soon to be held out in the snow.  It should be fun.

For the Christmas holidays we were invited down to visit with my Aunt and Uncle who live down in Utah.  We are having lots of fun.  I enjoy hanging out with their family.  My aunt and Uncle are really easy going.  My uncle is a Mac user and my Dad is a Windows users so for years the two of them have been having a computer showdown.  I inherited it from my father because of my preference for computer type.  The stand off is over really.  Mac now has the ability to run Windows OS and vice versa.  So really there is no Mac/Windows division on the computer anymore.  So ends the computer standoff between my Dad and his brother.  Unless windows does something different it really is a moot point.  Though I'm sure it s a point that will still be brought up again and again.

I'll have to get a picture of the Christmas Tree before all the presents are gone.  The gifts are bulging out from under it.  My aunt likes having the gifts in a particular way under, or in this case around, the tree.  At first when she told me I thought she was joking, but when I brought in the gifts my wife and I had my aunt rearranged the gifts as she added in ours.  I thought it was humorous because a couple of weeks ago I had to rearrange the presents under our tree back in Rexburg because  it was getting too messy.  I would say it was a genetic thing but she married into the family, which means she's probably the only normal one along with my wife.  My mom also married into the family but I'm pretty sure that is where I picked up some of my stranger habits.  I love you mom.

I just looked outside and it still looks like it is the middle of the night, it's 7am.  I miss the sun at this hour.  Well I have to go practice my gaming skills as I'll end up going head to head with my uncle.  He got C&C 3  and he started reading all the interesting things he can do with his armies.  He always beats me at these games anyway and I'm a little worried he may crush me again.   Thought I might have had a chance but who knows now...