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Christmas Eve and Christmas Day

Christmas Eve is spent with the Helferich clan- family games, Lasagna and bread, cookies, gifts, and good times.

We got lots of family games- Blink, Farkle, and Ticket to Ride (USA). It's our favorite thing to do! Coloring books, new pajamas and clothes, and more.  


My favorite gift is below.  Several years ago I asked the inlaws to complete a "fun" little family history exercise.  Fifty-two questions about their lives, answered in-depth, typed, and bound.  Including pictures.  SUPER awesome.  I can't wait to finish them.  It's like a little treasure.  I love it.

We went to my mom's on Christmas Day.  Good times, crazy busy, lots of kids, loads of fun.  

I wrapped my parent's gifts in this pretty incredible prank box called "Roto Wipe."  It claims to contain a rotating wheel that hooks onto a toilet.  I got it from Tim's mom, who prank wrapped one of Barb's gifts in it. I wish I had gotten a picture of her reaction- it was sweet.  I asked to borrow the box and captured my mom's reaction.  Awesome.  My brother got his gift in a "Bacon Smelling Dryer Sheets" box.  So funny!



Best two conversations of the day:

Me: I'm so sick I'm probably going to die.  I think I have bronchitis. 
Amber: I don't think so.  *reads online symptoms, which I do not meet*
Shandee: I think it's just a really bad cold with maybe a sinus infection.  This is how I have to sleep when I get like that....  *holds both of her nostrils open while pressing upwards on her cheeks*
Everyone: *laughing*
Me: *laughing to hard I can't talk, then I start crying from laughing, then I start real crying for no reason except I really don't feel well*
Everyone: *stop laughing at Shandee and now laugh at me*
Me: *Can't remember much, except I woke up an hour or so later and most of the family had gone home*

Me: Tim, what book are you listening to while ignoring the family talk?
Tim: What?
Me: What did you download?
Tim: Huh?
Amber: Is it Fifty Shades of Gray?
Mom: Cassie!  You read Fifty Shades of Gray?  That is naughty!
Me: No I didn't.
Amber: I think Tim is listening to it.
Mom: Tim!  Don't read that.
Tim:  Well, Cassie's been sick for two weeks...
Everyone: *dying of laughter*
*FYI: he's not reading Fifty Shades...*


Hahaha.  It's how a lot of family talk goes there.  So funny. 

I wish I had felt better all weekend.  If I only have a cold, it's a rotten, rotten one.  I haven't felt this crummy in a long time.  I still enjoyed Christmas with family; it's the most important part.  But I sure took a lot of naps!

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