Today is a recovery day from the fun, long Christmas weekend. It's very nice to have a 3-day weekend! We hosted the GLEKS (Gleason, Lacina, Easley, Khyl, Salton) family Christmas at our apartment in Ames. Everyone was here except for Christian byu the time I got home from work on Friday. We opened the family secret santa gifts that night (I gave Sarah the Hunger Games book set, and Becky gave me a pair of ISU flanel pants that I asked for). It took a while to convince everyone that Christian would not in fact be sneaking in to spend Christmas with us, but at least we were able to talk with him a few times using face-time on Elizabeth's phone. That Friday for supper we made a spiral cut honey ham, green bean casserole, scalopped corn, corn-bread stuffing, and queso dip with bacon & spinach. Just foreshadowing for all of the food that we would have this weekend!
The Lacinas stayed through lunch on Saturday before they had to take off. Later that afternoon the rest of us drove over to Ledges park near Boone. Sullivan, Seth, Brian, Elizabeth, and I walked all the way down a very steep hill which was slippery and muddy (just ask Elizabeth's pants after she slipped)... the boys got very wet and messy after playing in the half-frozen stream, and we explored a nice stone bridge. After driving home and getting cleaned up, we went out for pizza and chicken wings as Pizza Pit. Of course we had to order two double XL pizzas (one taco, one sausage & onion). After our meal (we ate maybe half of it), we drove around Ames to check out the Christmas lights. The best was a large decorated tree on central campus near Beardshear Hall. That night we stayed up late, watched Miracle on 34th Street, and went to a midnight church service at the local Catholic church. Also happy birthday to Brian Gleason.
Sunday involved the boys opening all of their presents, we went to a local park to go geocaching and play frisbee, we came back for a big lunch (BBQ ribs and leftovers), hung out to play games at the apartment, they later that night we went out to Perfect Games to play lazer tag, order more pizza (we had a coupon for 4 free games of lazer tag with the purchase of a specialty pizza), and to play arcade games. I enjoyed the skee ball quite a bit.
This morning we bid farewell to the Gleasons and to Becky after breakfast, and we've been trying to recuperate since. There is still lots of cleaning to do, but it's nice to be off work this Monday and only have a short week to prepare for. We also have our refrigerator FULL of leftovers. Next weekend we'll be hosting my parents along with Elizabeth's mom Becky again for New Years and to go to an ISU men's basketball game. Lot's of family fun!
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