Merry Christmas, everyone!

We started off our festivities by celebrating Christmas Eve at Mom & Pop's house. We enjoyed our usual spaghetti dinner and opted to stay in the warm house (thanks to Pop's FABULOUS fire) and play games rather than head out into the cold to see Christmas lights. We played Scrabble and Trivial Pursuit. Mom and her wonderful winning talent, won both games. But we're ready for a re-match tonight!

We then headed back to our house to get Christmas ready. When we woke up this morning, we saw that Santa had come!

When LaVor opened his stocking, he saw...

When Kimberly opened her stocking, she saw...




















(Clogs & a robe)

LaVor got lip injections!

But not the plastic surgery kind. I got a phone call at about 11:00 this morning, right when I arrived to Munchie's dance recital in San Leandro. It was LaVor telling me he was on his way to the hospital. He's pulled this a couple of times and it's been a joke so I thought he was yanking my chain once again. But he wasn't. He said he cut his lip open and would probably need stitches. When I got home, this is what I saw:

As you can see, the cut starts at the lip and goes all the way to his nose. He was working with a cutoff wheel when part of the blade broke off and got him. He said he was covered in blood and looked like he was "coming home from war". He did have to have stitches but they'll be out in a week. We knew he should have taken the day off :o) But we're very thankful (how appropriate...right before Thanksgiving) that the injury wasn't as bad as it could have been.