New Buffalo, Michigan for Christmas!

Busy weekend for the Pries family. We had Christmas dinner on Saturday night and headed out Michigan early Sunday to spend a little Christmas with my extended family. We saw my Aunts, Uncles, cousins and cousins kids from my Mom's side of the family. Oh, it's was Mother's weekend!!! (get it - first Mark's Mom's family and then my Mom's family) All of this is recorded in movies by my Uncle Bob. Of course, non of us have ever seen the final product of these tapings! Maybe someday???

Okay, so some of the family goes up on Saturday to stay at my Uncle Tony's second home in New Buffalo Michigan. They eat Mexican food and then start to prepare our annual meal of Chicken and home made dumplings. Then the rest of us come up on Sunday to eat and exchange gifts. Each child under the age of 18 gets gifts from their Great Aunts and Uncles. The rest gets to play the game!!!.

(kids: Seth (Steve and Mary's son); Kayla (Theresa and Bill's daughter) Riley in matching hat and gloves!(Paula and Mike's daughter) Peyton and Adam under the pile of gifts (Laura and Brad's boys) and Randy (Paula and Mike's son). Oh yeah -

my kids, Scott and Annabelle.

What game you ask? It's a game where you buy a $50 gift and wrap it. We draw numbers and the first person opens a gift from the pile. The next person can either steal the first gift or take a new gift from the pile. Then so on and so on. You get the idea. It's really fun! This year I got $50.00 worth of lottery scratch off tickets. Now the news all who were there are waiting for.....

I won!!!!!

$23.00 total.

Mark brought home a Shark vaccuum, an indoor/outdoor therometer with an alarm clock, and a Cuisinart hand blender! We've got some thrifty buyers out there! We had good food and company and a lot of laughs. Thanks to Uncle Tony for hosting again! Oh and Tony, the dinner tapoggle doesn't excuse you from next year... nice try!!!