Adams Family Christmas/NewYear's '08-09 :)

We celebrated Christmas with my family the week of New Year's. We had hoped that we were going to be better by then, but Benjamin and I were in a competition to see who could keep the stomach virus symptoms the longest. Poor little Benjamin won by a long shot, bless his heart! We even had a stool sample taken--no salmonella this time! He had that about a year ago, poor thing. Anyway, my family was also brave by welcoming us into their home (like they had a choice) :). We had a fun week, and there are way too many pictures here, sorry. The real highlight of the week was when Nonny and Cocky gave the kids their main big gifts--BIG WHEELS!!! Ecstasy! Sheer ecstasy! Olivia was truly in heaven, and we had so much fun watching them ride those things. There are also some pics from the neighbor's trampoline, and from the little mechanical horses on the sidewalk at the outlet mall. Yes, I did take pictures of the television one night. We watched some DVD's of The Muppet Show!! Truly one of my all-time favorite shows ever. Good times. We had an awesome dance party one night, and we had a lot of fun with some crazy balloons. And as always the Adams family BINGO tradition held strong. It got a little dirty when the Karate Kid II DVD was up for grabs. Carrie Beth was playin' hard core, and she wound up winning it in the end. I won an Art textbook of Uncle Will's--thus the picture of the naked lady. You'll see several reindeer antler pictures--those were also wins in the BINGO game. We celebrated Mom's 60th birthday while we were together also, and we had a sweet time honoring her and celebrating the wonderful life she's led for all of us to see. We were so glad even Abby and Andy were able to join us via cellphone for that special time. Sunday, we got to hear Dad preach out at Bemiss UMC, and he was wonderful, as usual. It was a sermon about when Mary and Joseph lost Jesus, and he talked about how sometimes we have to look back in order to be able to move forward. It was great--the icing on the cake. It is always shorter than we want it to be, but it was a good time. Everybody put up with our sickness very sweetly. I kind of wish we could do it again with us all being well now! :) Sweet times.