On Christmas Eve, David and I attended his extended family's Christmas party. After we ate delicious food, we played a highly entertaining gift exchange game. We each brought homemade gifts to give to one another, and took turns picking out gifts to unwrap and steal. David's grandma made a U of U quilt, which quickly became the coveted item by everyone in the room but me. :) David made the joke that, if he got the quilt, he'd be welcome to sleep under it as much as he wanted to on the couch.
After unwrapping our Christmas pajamas at my parent's house, we went back to David's parents' to unwrap our Christmas gifts from them. There were two surprises of the night. For those of you who don't know, David's favorite Christmas movie is "A Christmas Story." He watches it at least half-a-dozen times in the course of the month of December and loves every minute of it. Knowing this full well, his younger brother, Michael, gave him a Red Rider BB Gun. Can you tell David's absolutely thrilled?
The following is the next surprise, the larger one, in my opinion. Larry and Ruth, my in-laws, had already given us a generous chunk off our rent for December, which I assumed to be our Christmas present; not so! They gave us a new computer!
After the unwrapping of presents was complete, the boys quickly headed out into the below-freezing temperatures to try out David's new gun (to Ruth and I yelling, "You''ll shoot your eye out!"). They even climbed over the dog fence to spray paint a nice black target in the snow. Having never shot a gun of any kind in my life before, I decided to give it a go as well.
When Larry told me I looked just like Sarah Palin, however, I promptly put the gun down and went back inside.
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