Here's one of the activities I engaged in while waiting:
I had a plate of sticky rolls in the kitchen that were rock hard. Instead of throwing them out, I knocked the centers out of them, tied some yarn through them and hung them in the apple tree out in the back yard. I hope the birds enjoy them.
Terrell finally woke up at 10:00, Kimball at 10:30. We opened presents and had breakfast (a sausage breakfast strata). Then it was pretty quiet again - until that evening.
A couple weeks ago I decided on the border for Kimball's quilt and finished his quilt top. Since Kimball hadn't seen the completed quilt top, I wrapped it and gave it to him for Christmas. I'm still at a loss for how to quilt this, so if you have any ideas, please let me know.
Christmas evening, a family friend (Jeff) joined us, along with Brad & family & Emilie & Curtis for my traditional Christmas dinner - Costco frozen lasagna. (It requires no effort other than putting it in the oven to cook!) This year I served with it: homemade crescent rolls, pretzel salad, twice baked potatoes, tossed salad and green beans. It's also tradition to have English crackers for everyone to open before we start the meal.
Inside each cracker is a paper crown, a joke, and a toy. Here is Cailyn with her toy:
Everyone wearing their paper crown just before we turned off the lights to eat by candlelight.
After dinner I did something that I think will be a new tradition. I passed out kazoo's to everyone and we had a Christmas kazoo band. It was a lot of fun!
Cailyn with her kazoo
Brad with his kazoo
Gavin's kazoo at the end of the night
After humming (kazoo'ing) for awhile, we decided to share our talent with the neighbors. We bundled up and walked around the block, stopping at a few houses to entertain certain families.
I recorded one of the songs - the lights were still out, so you can only hear us.
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4 comments:
Bonnie,
It sure looks like you had a fun Christmas and some fun tradtions. I like the borders on Kimball's quilt. No quilting ideas for you.
I loved your Christmas card this year. :) And your downstairs looks great!
Looks like you had a great Christmas. We always have crackers but I guess that's because my mom always did and living in Canada we used to be a colony of GB. Even at our ages they're fun. But since the kids have grown up they refuse to wear the hats.
Fun!
I love Kimball's quilt.
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