Merry Christmas 2014

The kids were up before 8:00, which is early in our house.  Favorite gifts included a Minecraft diamond sword given by Owen to Evan, NBA 2K '15 to Owen from Santa, a "big gigantic penguin" to Mia from Santa, a garden stone to me from Mia and the annual photo book from me to Jim.  

After presents, we packed an overnight backpack for each of us, a weekend suitcase for each of us, an IKEA bag of gifts for St. Peter and an IKEA bag full of gifts for Manitowish Waters and hit the road.  2 hours later, we were in St. Peter exchanging gifts and enjoying a wonderful risotto dinner made by my sister-in-law, Jen.