Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas!

Well I am about a day late but I hope your Christmas was a good one. In the Hortin household it was another great year with our family all around us. We are still trying to get the whole whose house when but we did pretty good this year in not being completely exhausted by the end of the day. 

We started the celebrations last Sunday when Scott's mom's side of the family got together. It was a small group but it was fun nevertheless. We then gathered on Thursday with my mom's side of the family. It was the usual fun time giving each other a hard time but enjoying the company. 

Christmas eve brought us doing lunch with Scott's family and then going to my parents and opening gifts. It was a good time and we had a lot of gifts! 

 Dad with his & mom's stack of gifts from the kids & each other.

 Nicci & Will on their 'spot' of the living room. You can see some of their gifts as well...

Charles had a little too much fun so he pretty much passed out while we were opening gifts. After leaving my parents Scott & I went home to exchange our gifts. My big gift was a new camera (a Nikon CoolPix) and I gave Scott a Hi-Point handgun. 

Christmas morning we got up and went to my parents for Sata's visit: 

Once again Santa was very generous and we loved everything we got from him. We also decided that Will was not born from our family but he was hatched from an egg. As you can see from the photo below he definitely isn't like the rest of us: 

(Please note the bomber hat, green sweatshirt, red shirt, shorts, and you can't see his bright orange boxers...) After my parents we went to the Pannier Christmas. There was some hard times given to my Aunt who was late (we were told 10, her family didn't get here until 10:45) but it was another good year doing the peppermint pig and having new people join the party. My cousin Peter was very excited for the day and provided endless entertainment with his remote controlled helicopter. I don't know how many times he ran it into someone or the wall.

After that party we went to the Hortin family party where 20 of us gathered into Grandpas home and ate and laughed the afternoon away. We completed the Hortin party and then went to Scott's parents where we opened our gifts from the family & his parents. We had another successful stop there getting a new screen door for the house (Captain isn't going to not like being able to put his head outside now). We stayed at Scott's parents for a nice french dip sandwich and the Bolen family came over for a while. After we left Scott's parents we went home and spent some time with Captain (the poor guy was locked up all day!). He really enjoyed his Christmas though....