Celebrating Christmas - Young

On Sunday we celebrated with Nate's mom and Jay and his step brother Tony and family.  We have brunch and by far the most relaxing celebration.  I do not have a lot of pictures.  Before opening gifts the kids took turns reading parts of the Christmas story.

Nonny Mary came up with creative ways for Al, Ashley (Tony's daughter) and Nate to get their gifts of 25 $1 bills.  Al left the room and each of us took some of the bills.  We hid them and he had to ask each person if they have seen Mr. Washington?  If we had we would give him 1 of our dollars.  He did this until he collected all 25.  Ashley had to fill in the blanks to nursery rhymes since she is expecting a baby in July.  She got a $1 for every blank she guessed right.  Nate had to answer trivia questions about baseball to get his $25 that was spread out amongst the rest of us.  So we had fun with all of that.  The kids opened a few gifts because our main gifts are beef for the freezer and homemade applesauce.  And instead of buying a bunch of gifts we make a donation to a charity or family in need.  This year it was Nate's and my turn to pick.  This wrapped up our time with our Metzger cousins and the celebrating for 2012.  On to New Year's.  Hard to believe!