Tracy was going to be late so we ate without her. This time mom made a tater tot casserole and we had fruit, cinnamon rolls and orange juice. It was tasty. Grammie of course was the last person eating when we were done. She gets caught up talking to everyone. We continued visiting and Tracy showed up a bit later. We let her eat, dad did the dishes and we all got the dining room and kitchen cleaned up.
We went into the "Christmas room", sat down and got all situated. Then Karla got up and passed out presents to everyone. Due to the economy and people having circumstances and whatnot, we all picked names and kept it under $50. I had my mom and Tracy had me. We all opened our presents and then threw waded up Christmas paper at each other...something we do every year.
I got two storage bins, a gray one and a red one and inside was a Seahawks shirt, hat, a pen, cougar mug, ninja turtles buttons and a package of goldfish. Everything I liked inside of a bin. She did a good job. Everyone else got stuff they wanted as well. We continued chatting while a few of them went outside to teach Tracy how to use her new propane heater.
Usually everyone is out of here before noon to get ready for dinner later and to take naps. Everyone came back in from outside and we took a picture of everyone.
I gave out copies of the pictures for people to have. They all loaded up their stuff and away they went. Mom and dad started getting ready for dinner and I got ready to go to Puyallup. I left around 2. I put the address into the Nuvi and she told me I would get there in about 40 minutes...plenty of time before 3.
I arrived twenty minutes before 3, found a place to park and went in. Trish, Amy and Ben immediately found me and we opened gifts. I brought some stuff mom made them, including a card...Ben gave me my second gift. Our first actual Christmas together...we mutually agreed that last Christmas we were just warming up. Then he showed me what his aunt and uncle gave us. Gift cards, Bailey's and some winter mugs for coffee or cocoa.
We hung out for a bit talking to his cousins, aunts, uncles and grandma. Then his uncle went around and asked how they wanted their steak. I was like steak? We're having steak for Christmas dinner? Yeah, steak and lobster. Okay, now we're getting fancy and I am way under dressed, haha. I am really not into lobster so I just had the steak. We all sat down at dinner and ate. There were the main courses, potatoes, asparagus, rolls, jello salad, salad and dressing and whatever we wanted to drink. I've never had a Christmas dinner like this before. We visited a little bit more before everyone had to go home for the evening. I was dreading having to get up in the morning and go to work.
We went over to Walt and Wendy's house to hang out and I got to meet Chris's fiance, Rosa. We chatted and then got talked into playing a game. I really didn't want to get into a 2-hour game only because I needed to get home and in bed as soon as possible. We ended up playing Catan and staying until almost 10:30. We hustled into Bonney Lake and Ben wanted to take me to see the Christmas lights on Sky Island...we did this last year and are trying to make it a tradition. We also found a cache, Sky Island Viewpoint (GC2D4YG). It was really cold outside so we tried to hurry.
We went to his mom's house and got everything he needed to do done. I had planned on a gift for his mom but had to collect the items first. We got almost all of them and now I can start working on it. We got everything in the car and headed back to my house. Of course it was 2 a.m. and I was exhausted. I barely got 10 hours of sleep in the past 2 days, tomorrow was going to SUCK!
Merry Christmas everyone!
Next Adventure: Nicole's Party at Skateland
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