Christmas Vacation

Matt was on call for the week of Christmas so we stayed in San Antonio for the Holidays.  He had an OK week and only had to stay late on Monday night until midnight.

We went to Six Flags on Friday, but there were not very many rides open.  Even though there were not very many people the lines were long because the options were so limited.  It was still good to get out and do something with the family.

The older three kids went on a bike ride in our neighborhood with Matt.

Gabbi came back from El Paso to train with the O'Connor swim team.  She stayed with us because her family was still gone.  Kylee and Gabbi went to the New Year's Dance and Matt chaperoned.

Dec 28 - Sunday
Matt had to give a talk on Obedience on Sunday because he was in charge of giving the talk assignments.  He gave a great talk.  Later that day we made the Gingerbread house and train.

Asher was sad because he was not allowed to eat all the candy being used for the Gingerbread house.  The house wasn't too solid and fell apart before long.

We played Headbandz as a family for a couple of hours and there was lots of laughing. We had never played the game before, so we were getting the hang of it.  Blake left and came back with his card upside down, so we knew that he had taken it off looked at it and put it back on.  Matt's turn he figured out it was something in the living room, but he couldn't figure out what it was.  He stood up and asked if he was facing it in all four directions and couldn't figure out why he wasn't facing it until later when he realized it was the clock.

Dec 29- Monday
We had Stockwells and Adia over for s'mores around a fire in the back yard.

Dec. 30- Tuesday
Tuesday we went to the San Antonio Botanical Gardens to see the Lego exhibit.  There were a whole bunch of really big Lego sculptures on display around the garden.  Adia came with us.

Dec 31 - Wednesday
New years eve we stayed home as a family, made pizzas, and played the Ticket to ride Europe game we got from Chantelle for 2 hours.  Afterwards we had root beer floats and brownies with ice cream and watched The Princess Bride.