The Blandford Family: Merry Christmas....Part 1

This weekend we celebrated Christmas with Joe's family and it now it officially feels like Christmas!! We had the annual Lacny family party on Friday night and, as usual, it was a great night with a lot of traditions and a new one that seemed to go over really well - the White El gift exchange. I walked away with what seemed to be a hot item (thanks Grandma!!!) as Joe was harassing me to steal it from someone - the Travel Emergency Kit with jumper cables and all. I kept telling him I don't need one...reminding him AAA does a great job and that I definitely would kill myself trying to use jumper cables, but he started to reference his Country Insurance salesman days and all the benefits of a travel emergency kit so I am now the proud owner. Joe won a nice picture frame that he exchanged for a car clipboard. And, Lucy got spoiled with so many fun toys, clothes and books. She is a lucky little girl!

Saturday we celebrated Christmas with Jill and Jake who flew in from Boulder for the big weekend of festivities, and Grammy and Grampy. And after a morning of opening gifts (way too many this year, but thanks Chris and Bill for everything!!!!) and probably too much Lucy-watching, we had a really relaxing day and Joe said it was one of his "best days ever." Everyone needed a nap after Friday night, especially our host who stayed up cleaning the house until 4:30 am. But, it did look spectacular Saturday morning. Lucy definitely won the title of "most spoiled 16-month old" this weekend as we needed giant garbage bags to bring her toys home in, but she is loving them. We are slowing going to bring one or two out a week, so hopefully the new toy excitement will stretch us all the way through the winter.

Thanks Bill and Chris for everything, to Jill and Jake for coming in for the weekend, and to all the family for thinking of Lucy and us - and Merry Christmas!!!

All ready to go!