With the Robertson's, we did a sing-along, played games, watched It's a Wonderful Life (which Sam thought he was going to die watching), let the kids play video games, read Christmas stories, made chocolate and just plain played with cousins. (pictures posted in the last hanging out with cousins post.)
With the Wilcox's we built Legos, made Costa Vida pork, did the Nativity, watched the church's new Bible videos, did a sing-along, and played my mom's famous Christmas game. This time we had a marshmallow gun contest, a puzzle race, a cup race (which two people finished at the same time and accidentally knocked everyone's over and the kids had a red cup fight), putting the words of a Christmas song in order, and we were going to play golf with straws but we ran out of time. Always a fun game.
Legos are the only great week after Thanksgiving sale item... (paid $35 for Jer's X-wing... $25 for Ada's tree house, $40 for Sam's... not a great deal, $20 for Evelyn's)
Grandpa got "tools" from Seth for Christmas... so he "built" things with Evelyn. She had a blast figuring out how the tools worked.
With our own family, Christmas morning... everyone one got Legos... they were so excited that it's what they wanted to do all day. Even Seth was excited about Christmas. He loved crinkling the paper, playing with new things, and eventually just bawled because he'd played so enthusiastically all morning. Ada was thrilled with her new scooter and Sam played with his legos and ignored his stocking, Evelyn wanted to see what everyone got and was happy with everything she got. I spent more than I'd intended to on people, but they enjoyed it... At least I didn't go above our $500 limit. I was worried I'd be tempted to. I made gifts for each of the kids, but didn't finish Evelyn's yet, so I decided to give them their homemade gifts on their birthdays instead and gave everyone legos now. They seemed to like it.
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