Christmas Memories. . . how they linger

Christmas this year was spent in Indiana and we had such a great time!

On Saturday before Christmas, we went to Muncie, IN and had Christmas with Grandpa Young at the nursing home.

Then we went to Grandma Young's house and opened presents there.

On Christmas Eve, we went to Upland, IN and had Christmas at Grandma Herring's house. Melissa (Aaron's cousin) was opening an "interesting" gift and all eyes were on her.

All the cousins always play games after we do gifts. This year the favorite was Catch Phrase.

And then on Christmas Day we stayed home (at Aaron's parents house) and had our Christmas there. We always start with stockings filled and overflowing with really cool things (De-Icer, Butterfingers, Dark Chocolate Doves, LipSmackers chapstick, socks, etc.).

Cameron is now 14, which is the year he officially starts his toolbox. He got this nice metal Craftsman toolbox and a nice screwdriver set to start it off. From now until he's married, he'll get a new tool each year. Aaron loved having all these tools when we got married. After all, you typically don't get stuff like this for wedding gifts. :-) .


This gift really made him smile - a cell phone of his very own!
(with very strict instructions of no texting, no sending pictures, and if possible, only talk to "Verizon" customers to benefit from the free mobile-to-mobile) :-)


Cameron got a remote controlled helicopter from Uncle Hugh and Aunt Cindy and absolutely loved this thing! All we heard from Christmas Eve night on was the whrr whrr whrr of this thing. It was really neat - and actually very hard to fly.

After finally getting the hang of it, Cameron successfully landed the helicopter on the fan blade . It took several hours (or was it a couple of days?) for him to learn how to do this. Maybe the $5 challenge from his dad had something to do with it.