Christmas 2016

 

For this year's Christmas we went over to the kids' house on Christmas Eve and spent the night so we could be up at the crack of dawn with young Everett.

 

Leigh and Brooks had really decorated the tree and it looked beautiful in the finished living room.

 

The next morning it was hard to restrain Ev as he waited to open all the gifts that Santa had left.

After reducing the pile of presents to a mound of wrapping paper and each participant playing with his or her respective present, it was time for breakfast. Below, the chefs prepare pancakes with mutual seriousness and dedication.

And then time to play. Here's Jo and Ev battling it out with the new rod hockey set just like the ones we had used as kids. He actually got pretty good with just a few sessions.

After all the celebration and concluding another wonderful Christmas event we headed back to the Flying Scotsman the next day to relax ... and Bandit agreed with us that the partying and gifting was just too much! Actually he spent the night by himself in the RV ... but what the heck, eh.

And finally on Sunday evening the view from the Blogger/BBQ master's  vantage point overlooking the lake from our patio.

 

It looks like we will head out to Arizona in the new year and so we have started to plot our course and stopping places along the way ... always with the weather at the forefront of planning.