Today we had the Nicholl family Christmas, hosted by Mom and Ron at their house in Olathe.
We started the day with
Nick Schale taking all of our family pictures, which I'll hopefully include in a future post. The group picture at the top of this post was taken by him, but the picture here of me and Meghan is one taken with my camera.
Joanna and Kirk were back, of course, and Joshua was really glad to see his Aunt Josie.
We had a delicious meal, highlighted by the always-amazing Honey Baked Ham. Joshua especially was a ham fiend, tearing through three helpings of ham.
After the meal we did stockings for the kids. Here the kids excitedly huddle around the tree to see what was there for them. And then they posed with their stockings, but Benjamin took his label off and dropped it, and the other kids were entranced by its fluttering motion to the ground.
The kids received Royals shirts from Mom and Ron, with Joshua getting a replica of the shirts the Royals players and coaches wore during the championship parade. He also received a Spider-Man mask from Uncle Brent that he was totally pumped about.
Hannah received a new hat from Uncle Brent that she loved, and she generally spent her time walking around being cute.
For the past few years, we have been making an ornament for everyone and delivering it as part of the family picture wall calendar. This year we used their fingers to make little snowmen on the ornament and used their feed to make reindeer on the wrapping paper. They turned out really well.
We had a great time, as always. I later returned in the late evening to join the game-playing crew for a late night of board games, which was a blast, as it always it. Another great Nicholl Christmas is in the books.
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