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Christmas 2025 ...

Christmas 2025

Photo-A-Day 2.0 #02536

This morning we woke up and had our family Christmas with cinnamon rolls, presents and opening of stockings. We hung around the house enjoying each other's company and exchanging gifts for a while. The big family gift was to go see Weird Al Yankovic in July. Allison got me tickets to the GenX takeover tour and tickets for she and Eva to see Wicked. It was a nice morning. 

World's Smallest G.I.Joe

I'm sort of in charge of the stockings and I picked up a ton of stuff for everyone else at Aldi this year. Lots of interesting sweets. For myself I found some World's Smallest Transformers, G.I.Joe and He-Man figures. They were cool because they each came with a super tiny version of the original comic books from 1984. I ended up with Issues 2 and 3 of Transformers and Issue #1 of G.I. JOE. I am tempted to see if the Target had any more so I could get issue #1.

clear yard

Today is when Allison and the kids actually saw with the house now looks like after the yard was cleared of a couple of trees. Out on a Limb took down 2 major trees and they cut back a bunch of branches that had been hanging over the house from a pine tree. The yard looks really open now.

We also had our video call with Mimi and Dano so the kids could open the gifts from them. They each got some new luggage and additional things that they had asked for,

We then piled into the car to drive down to the Cape to spend a couple of days with Mem and Grandfather. 


puzzling with Grandfather

Andy brought one of their gifts with them to the Cape. It is a vintage style puzzle of a color wheel. Andy loves puzzles and has a distinct knack for identifying shades of color. Allison and I found this puzzle on one of our last trips to the Cape when we came down to celebrate Grandma and Grandpa Bennett's Anniversary at Scargo Cafe. We found it in this cute little shop.

Enjoying the sunporch

Christmas Time is a great time for sunsets at my parent's house because it is the time of year when you can sit on the sunporch and look right out to the water and see amazing sunsets. During the Summer the sun is way off to Allison's left and we sort of see pink skies but not great sunsets like we do in the Winter time.

Andy would stay up all night to finish this

It think that i we let Andy do it then they'd stay up all night working on this puzzle. Andy was so engaged in it.

sunset

We watched the sunset, had dinner and then watched another Christmas movie. I think we watched Klaus tonight. Getting some rest before the cousins come down tomorrow.

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