Some pictures from early in the day:
Christian and my dad.
My dad and Ryan.
Tara and Erin.
Wesley chilling out in my room, where he and Bing spent most of their Christmas vacation.
A cute shot of folks saying grace at the kids' table.
After dinner, the real madness got going, as the gift-giving got started. I include this picture to show that there was literally no room to move in our living room (unless you were a determined kid, looking for your next package).
There were some real gems under the tree--a little Mexican dude named Diego made many appearances, as did various cars and trucks, all sorts of little dollies, and some gifts for the grown-ups, too.
Not to pat myself on the back too much, but I really did well with my gifts for Colin, who loves all things cars and trucks. Here is he asking his dad to open the tow truck I got him. The other part of his present, a Tonka Lights and Sounds Ambulance, was his clear favorite. He even asked Tara if he could sleep with it that night. That reminded me of that image from the end of A Christmas Story when Ralphie is sleeping with his bb gun and his brother is holding the zeppelin.
Look at Christian's delight at opening this gift! A cheesy horror flick called Mr. Jingles, featuring a killer clown. If you anything about the five Hanrahan children, you know that's right up our alley: we love B horror movies and at least three of us are pretty darn terrified of clowns. What would Christmas be without horror movies? (This is actually true for us--when we were younger and we would have to wait for my mom to get home from work to open our presents, we would pass the day by watching horror movies.)
Tara and Jeff gave Chris Mr. Jingles, which goes pretty well with my gift for him: glow-in-the-dark zombie figures! BRAINS!!!
Kelsie and Heidi.
Erin and Aidan.
Ryan and Colin (with the ambulance). Notice that Colin is in his undershirt. In an earlier shot, Olivia has stripped down to her tights and undershirt. By the end of the night, all the kids were in jammies. When you are surrounded by toys, it's all about comfort, people.
After the gift-giving was over, the adults crashed for a bit while the kids, on combination toy and sugar highs, got a little crazy. Actually, Erin helped them out a bit...
Erin making her classic "stupid face" for the kids. I challenge anyone not to laugh when she makes this face. It's even funnier in person. Needless to say, this led to a chain reaction of more craziness and silly faces...
Kelsie hamming it up.
Olivia doing her part for the crazy face contest.
Okay--that's all for Christmas Eve. Looks like a fun day, right?
4 comments:
I'm not sure if this is sad or not, but every Christmas this crosses my mind: "I wonder if Heidi is watching horror movies with her family." Does this mean I have too much time to think at Christmas?
You'll be happy to know that Ryan, Erin, and I watched _Saw II_, which I really didn't enjoy at all.
Maybe I am getting soft in my old age, but when the idea behind the movie seems to be, "Let's see how many different and horrific ways we can find to hurt people," I am not all that impressed--especially when that's ALL that the movie seems to be doing. (As opposed to a film like _Hostel_ which at least made me think about things...)
But maybe this is a subject for a post of its own.
Do you ever read the website "Pajiba?" The reviewers on there are really sick of all the "torture porn" and have had some interesting posts on it. I actually don't even watch horror movies anymore because I don't want to see people tortured. I think that I would still like some ghosty kind of supernatural movies, but all of these gory just for the sake of being gory movies are not up my alley.
I am looking forward to your post on this.
I watch horror movies since I was a teenager and I switched from non-visible horror like >> The Haunting of Hill House to other supernatural movies to the classic slashers to 90s teen horror - to Asian horror and I am still very open to movies, I had never watched before...
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