Mississippi Christmas...and Mississippi Ghosts too!!!

Merry Christmas!!!! I hope everyone had a wonderful one...I know we have. We had a typical Mississippi Christmas this year...WET! It rained so hard Christmas Eve that I thought we might have a floating Christmas, but by bed time it had slacked off. We enjoyed our usual traditions. Pop, Grammy, and D'nana came over for dinner. This year we had a roast and I was able to make a pumpkin pie complete with egg less meringue that Bryce could eat. After our tummies settled we opened gifts. Pop got his usual house shoes, gift cards, and hickory farms cheese. I painted canvases for Grammy and D'nana and also got some hand towels for them from a friend of mine. I you'd like to see her stuff go to http://www.ordesigns.blogspot.com/ . Eric got two poker instructional books one by Gus Hansen (which happens to be his nickname at work) and the other by Barry Greenstein. There should be no reason why he should ever loose another poker tournament LOL! I got a scrapbook rolling case (I had gotten one of these earlier in the week, but all my stuff didn't fit, so I'm glad I got another one), shoes and jewelery. The last present I opened was from Eric and the boys. Now Eric normally wraps gifts in the walmart bag, but this time it was too big for a bag, so he wrapped it in my favorite blanket! Bryce made the gift tag which will forever be a keepsake and added the bow...here's the pic. It was Guitar Hero World Tour! I know it sounds silly for a grown woman to love such a game but it is sooooo fun! Bryce got some really good stuff too. D'nana got him just what he wanted...a spy gear remote control thingy, and Pop got him his first BB gun. It was almost like Ralphie and his red rider on the Christmas Story. He was pointing that gun every which way. I'm glad the store was out of BB's or someone would have ended up with their "eye shot out"!

This morning we woke to find that Bryce's gift from D'nana was possessed!! Before everyone else got up, me D'nana, and Pop were visiting and all of a sudden this remote controlled ATV starts moving! The remote control was cut off, the ATV was cut off, there was no good explanation as to how this thing was moving, but it was going for a joyride in my living room! It kinda looked like one of those roomba vacuum cleaners. It's a shame it didn't have a built in vacuum :( .

In all the commotion of the haunted ATV, we also noticed that Santa had indeed visited. Bryce opened his gifts and loved them all...Thanks Santa for doing such a great job!

Tyler never gets to spend Christmas morning with us, so he opened his gifts this evening when he got here. He really enjoyed all his gifts. We later decided to play Guitar Hero and dad gum if the guitar wasn't working...so Eric and I took it back to Walmart and I will be making a final decision on my gift later.