this time the HoHoHo really has a fun factor...

If you ask most women and maybe men, what their favorite holiday is the answer is usually Christmas.  I'm no different.  I happily jump into the category of folk who get all gaga over the holiday season.  In the case of Christmas, it's the journey for me...preparing, making lists, shopping, finding the "perfect" gift, surprising someone who didn't think I knew what they secretly wanted, wrapping, putting bows and ribbons on packages or stuffing colored tissue into pretty holiday bags.  I love all of it.

Christmas 2014 had my family together: me, John, Jeff, Tyler, Lizzy and Eli.  It was, in a word decadent.

Our "Christmas Tradition" goes like this: We open gifts on Christmas Eve.. with tablet and pencil in hand, Santa Claus (Jeff in a silly Santa hat), disperses gifts to each of us.  We open the gifts one at a time and I write down who got the gift, what it is and who its from.  This takes a very long time, but  when it is all over, the mess has been cleared as we go, Christmas bags folded to be reused and we end up with piles of gifts in front of where we sit. FUN FACTOR X 10!!

 Adventure Time PJ's for Tyler

 Marine Corps jersey for John

 Seahawk shirts for the guys

 The PurpleVinyl MotherLove Bone album for Tyler

 Seahawk Russell Wilson jersey for Eli

 Grumpy Kitty T-shirt for Lizzy

 We asked Lizzy if she would go rob banks for us in her Morph suit.

 Grumpy Cat for Lizzy...but Tyler seems to love it!

 Eli loved his Adventure Time T-shirt!

 Tyler's family gift got two thumbs up:  a telescope.

This is just a random sampling of the "loot" we all hauled in....twas the night before Christmas and all was well....