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Happy New Year’s Day 2017!

Breakfast at Morins
Photo-A-Day #4282

A new year and a new start. I made sure that my first day of the new year started with the family so I took last night off. We enjoyed a nice family dinner of appetizers and watching the Netflix countdowns. This morning we slept in and then I took everyone to Morin’s for a big breakfast. We never get a chance to do big breakfast together because of my work schedule. While at breakfast we talked to the kids about what they wanted to do for the year ahead. Both kids want to learn to ice skate. Andrew also wants to use a skateboard (there was a skateboard on his place mat) He also said that he wants to throw a New Year’s Party, well we have 364 days to plan.

We came home and I started my latest project. I organized my Transformers comic book collection because I am starting a whole new YouTube project. I am reviewing my Transformers comic book collection, one book at a time. This is being done on my second YouTube Channel called Big Damn Kid. I actually started the channel a year or so ago but only have 13 videos on it. I’m anxious to see how this one grows in the coming year. You can access it via my new YouTube Channel.

Today I also opened up my new Modarri car, this was the Modarri Kickstarter car. Sadly, Brian and I did not win the most number of votes for our Modarri video. We still may find out that we were the video that Modarri enjoyed the most and so we are crossing our fingers to get SteamDads some funding.

More to be found in today’s video.

‘Twas the Night Before BenSparkmas

Eva and the Nativity
Photo-A-Day #4274

On the day of Christmas Eve we were finishing up our last minute decorations, making cookies for Santa and chicken stew for the family dinner. The kids got to decorate their individual trees. They each have a mini tree that we put on a chest upstairs in the landing between all the bedrooms. Each year we get the kids a special ornament for their own trees. this year Eva got a ballerina Barbie and Andrew a Finding Dory one, that speaks. I kinda wish that they didn’t notice that their ornaments made any noise, because they insisted on my putting in the batteries. Andrew has a limit of pushing the button once a day. He only missed that by 8,999 pushes.

We then went to 4pm Mass. Andrew fell asleep on me for most of the ceremony. Then we woke up and was very groggy. He refused to have his photo taken at the Nativity Scene this year. That is too bad because we have photos of the kids in front of that from each year. I would have liked to have both kids in the photo but it makes no sense to try and make the kid take a photo.

After Mass we had the family over for Chicken stew. Allison made a double batch this year. We had to use two crock pots. Allison also made Chocolate Crinkles and they were delicious. Santa is going to get some incredible cookies tonight.

And now we are watching A Christmas Story and Christmas Vacation. That and A Charlie Brown Christmas earlier tonight and we hit all the major Christmas movies that we love. Get some rest everyone and have a fantastic Christmas tomorrow.