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Yesterday we had Christmas with my siblings and my dad and their significant others. Today we went to Mom and Ron's house to have Christmas with Mom's side and Ron's side. Grandpa and Grandma and Uncle Brent drove in from their respective homes, and Matt and Abby and David were there, and again the same crew from yesterday minus Dad and Deb. Ron works with a guy who is a photographer, Nick, and hired him to stop by and take some pictures, so we got some great pictures of the various family groups in attendance.
Later some of us played Oxford Dilemma, a board game that mixes Scrabble with Monopoly with a spelling bee. It's one of my favorite games even though I'd only played it twice and not in the past five or six years. We learned the spelling of everything from obscure French philosophers to Chinese rivers.
There was the normal extensive supply of shrimp cocktail, which we made short work of, and a double batch of Grandma's Christmas cookies, thanks to Guest Chef Brent Hall, which allowed me to indulge early and often. I don't think I ate more than a dozen, but it's possible I did.
It was a fun day, as it always is, and we're thankful we have some great photographs from it. (By the way, the picture above of everyone around the tree was one I took, so please don't blame Nick for my mediocre photography.)
