Mleynek Christmas

Because of their work schedules, we celebrated Christmas with the Mleyneks on the day after Christmas.  We started out with homemade cinnamon rolls.

  

Aunt Mikiah got out some gingerbread man kits to do with the boys.

Miles may have taste tested the frosting.

But they spent quite a while working on these. 

They looked great when they were done.

Miles = Sugar High

And they must have tasted good too.

Once Dale got home from work and ate a little lunch, he read the Christmas story.


Then it was time for gifts.

They boys got some cool stuff.  Mason really liked watching their excitement.

Mason did well opening his own with some help.

But kept an eye on those big boys!

Who got all kinds of great things...  like a possum!

You might remember a picture of Miles holding this possum in a recent post.

Grandpa Dale said the look on his face meant he needed it.  Ha!

The boys had gift for G'ma & G'pa too.

Then it was time for the rest of us to do our white elephant exchange.

Something new we tried this year in place of drawing names.

 Somehow, some got a gift perfectly suited to them!

And after the opening, stealing and trading, we all went home with something fun.

...which all happened while the kids played with new toys.

Or just played around.

Mama Mleynek started the Christmas dinner prep.

Derek helped with some of his wild boar ribs on the grill.

Miles even helped for a while too.

We all relaxed and enjoyed the day... some while multitasking.