Mike and Carrie and the boys flew to New York on Christmas day. They did some things in New York City, saw some church history sights, went to Boston, visited at least one university, and got to spend New Years Eve at Times Square. Here are pictures that they posted on FaceBook. I am sure that these aren't in chronological order. Looks like they stayed "bundled up" the entire time. They got back home before the snow settled in there.
I think we got the best Christmas morning deal... with the Simms at our house. Those kids are old enough to "wait". They didn't open gifts until about 10:30, so that Alexs' parents could watch by zoom. Round one of breakfast was cereal and round two was cinnamon rolls and eggs. Annie and I had to spend most of that day cooking. (Actually, I had prepped most of my cooking on Saturday... so my part was pretty simple.) Then Andersons and Petes brought side dishes and rolls. Since we had prime rib and turkey on Christmas Eve... we had ham for Christmas dinner. Dinner was at our house about 5. (I might be able to gather up a few more pics of that later.) This post is just Christmas morning pics. I gathered a few of those from Facebook. Thompsons had Christmas gifts on Christmas Eve, so they could fly to New York on Christmas day. Christiansens had Christmas morning at the rv. (I don't have pics of that.) A couple of the gifts at Andersons was the birds and going to a Wicked performance.
It is "tradition" at Andersons for Christmas Eve, for Sam to cook prime rib and potatoes. This year since he was cooking for 27 of us... he added air fried turkey too. The rest of us brought side dishes and dessert. Hailey brought a beautiful Christmas cake. It is also "tradition" to have a puppet show and a candy bar exchange. It was a bit crazier than normal with so many of us there. Christiansens just got into the RV park about 6 pm. We all made it to Andersons for dinner by 7:30. It was a fun evening together. This years puppet show was "Charlie Brown's Christmas".
