Christmas

This year for Christmas Eve we went to Zach's grandma's house. We had lots of treats and goodies, listened to a program about Bethlehem, opened presents, and had a pinata. The most interesting part of the party each year is the pinata. Everyone is crowded into a very narrow room. One of Zach's uncles holds the pinata at the end of a stick. Starting with the youngest everyone gets three tries to break it open. Before starting Toby had been sitting on Karma's lap right by the pinata. Luckily Zach went to get him because partway through hitting it one of Zach's cousins lost control of the stick and it slammed into the wall right where Toby would have been. It took a lot to break the pinata this year because it was made mostly of duct tape. One of Zach's older cousins finally just ripped it open so that the kids could have the candy.

Following the party we went to Zach's parents house. We had decided to sleep there so that we could open presents with them in the morning. We woke up bright and early with Toby a little before seven. We were the only ones awake at that time so we opened our stockings from Santa. Later when everyone else was awake we opened the rest of our presents. Toby got some great things including a busy ball choo choo, clothes, toy cars, and a ball. Some of the the things Zach received were a basketball, Harry Potter 6 DVD, Nightmare Before Christmas Mugs, and leather gloves. I got some great things but my favorites were a season pass to Cherry Hill, Disney movies, a Christmas Tree (we bought this the week after Christmas for 65% off with the money we got from our grandparents.

After we opened presents Karma made a delicious breakfast and we all relaxed. That afternoon we drove to my parents house for dinner and games. Christmas was a lot of fun, but it sure was nice to go home. Since then we have been spending a lot of time with our families. We went to Boondocks with Zach's family last Monday. It was a lot of fun. We played Rollerball which is like miniature bowling. Zach and I both liked it more that regular bowling. I also beat Zach in air hockey. We have played a few new games with my family, my favories were Zooloretto and Poison. It has been a lot of fun to have Zach home (he was able to take some leave) and see our families so much.