Christmas 2007

Because of the Nutcracker performance that our Grandchildren were in last weekend, we spent an extra two days in Hudson with our daughter and her family. We went down on Saturday morning and dodged the snow part of the way. The Nutcracker was absolutely wonderful (see below). Sunday it snowed all day. In Hudson we got 6 inches throughout the day, back home they received a foot! The guys had a lot of snow shoveling and blowing to do when we got back home on Christmas Day.

We had a great Christmas, good quality time with everyone, even the Grandson who is usually off and running with his friends, spent a lot of time at home with us.

On Christmas Eve Day, we enjoyed another great Lasagna meal put together by our daughter.
Her In-Laws and her sister-in-law always are with us that day and evening. Dawn has really perfected her homemade lasagna, seems better each year! (She learned it from her Mom!)

Madelyn can hardly wait until the meal is over, for us to open our gifts. Every year I think that we should be giving money to charity instead of buying gifts for each other, but then when the time comes, I have to admit it is fun to watch everyone open, and oooh and aahh over their gifts.
Yes, Christmas Eve was very nice. We missed church this year. We always went to church at 10 pm other years, except last year and this year, we just didn't seem to make it. We must get that back into the picture next year.

We said goodbye at 11 am on Christmas Day and headed north to home, arriving home in time to clean up snow and still have time to relax and rest, before spending Christmas Day evening with the youngest son and his girlfriend and her family. (He worked all day Christmas Eve day, so they stayed in Duluth). **Rob and Bob spent the evening with them

**I was dealing with a bad head cold that moved to the chest, the whole time we were in Hudson, by the time we were traveling home on Tuesday, it moved to the stomach. As the guys cleaned the snow, I went to bed for the rest of the day. Fortuantely, by Wednesday morning, I felt much better, just in time to go back to work. My cold is all gone now.