Beating Boredom

With a lot of time on our hands, and not a lot of money, we decided to go shopping. We have this little "game" that we do sometimes that's really fun. Each person takes $2.00 and draws a name. You have to go to the store and buy something for the person you drew for the money you have. Here's what we got.

Damon got Aaron some PlayDoh so he can be creative

Jeff got me a mug since mine broke.

Aaron got Jess some cards, because we have been playing a lot of cards lately

I got Damon cards as well. (Yes, same ones, that's funny!) He plays a lot of cards so more for his collection. And, since he is getting his license soon I got him a brand new 2009 Corvette.

Jess got Jeff pop - self explanatory

We traded our gifts at Carl's Jr. over some french fries. We had fun.

Rockin Grandma

Can you believe that I got my mom to play Rock Band!? What a trooper! We had to do the kick drum for her, but she did pretty well on the drums. Come on Grandma Smout - you can do it too!

Fancy Night Out

Teresa and Mike decide they wanted to celebrate a successful FedEx holiday in style, so Mike reserved a limo for the evening and had dinner reservations at a fancy pants restaurant in Tacoma. We had never been in a limo before, so that was way fun, and there aren't many opportunities to dress up so we enjoyed that a lot too. They had one other couple come with us, and they were fun to hang out with, Lance and Kristine. We did dinner and dancing until the limo time expired.

I can tell you though, fancy pants is not really our style. Don't get me wrong, I could totally get used to it if I had a lot of money, but we do not. So, $40 for a tiny salmon and 4 asparagus was a little out of my budget. I was totally in sticker shock for the rest of the evening and don't think we have ever spent so much money on a meal for two before ($65!) But ,we had fun and were really glad for the invitation.

We Got Rockband

Well, our vacation at Great Wolf Lodge got canceled, and out trip to Utah/Idaho got snowed out, so now we all have a week and a half with no plans. We decided to take the money we would have spent on our trips and got rock bands one and two.

We have played it several times, and have enjoyed it. Plus it's just something we can all do together, if we can get Jeff to join :o). So, that is how we are probably going to spend the rest of our weekend at least. Then the snow should mostly be gone and we can go from there. But, in the mean time - Rock On!

Rock Band at the McConnells

We went and hung out with the McConnell's for Christmas Evening. It was fun just hanging out and doing a bunch of nothing. We played cards, ate a lot of pizza and cookies, played a lot of Rock Band that Santa brought them for Christmas, and watched Hancock again. It was fun!

White Christmas!

Watching the morning snow. Yes, it's snowing again. But it's Christmas, so it's even better today.

"It's a ball in a cup. Mexico's favorite toy for 350 years. The ball is on a string attached to the cup, so there is no worry if you don't catch the ball in the cup." (Family Guy)

Santa's feeding the addiction!

More albums for the collection.

Godzirra!

Jess just wanted books and CD's for Christmas, so books and CD's she got! That should keep her busy for a week or two :o)! And, yes, I was in attendance for Christmas morning - just picture me behind all of these shots. I usually am the one taking the pics, so I am not in them and no one thinks to take the camera from me (and no, I am not going to ask to have my picture taken, especially first thing in the morning). But, I am here!

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!! WE LOVE YOU ALL!

Christmas Eve

We were able to get ourselves to Orting, to my moms house, for our traditional Christmas Eve dinner. It was nice to just relax, watch a movie (Hancock), play games and eat way too many cookies. But, it's Christmas, so the calories don't count .... right?