Christmas (Part IV)

Our final Christmas celebration for the year was with Matt's grandparents here in St. Louis. All the grandkids and the great grandkid went over and had a lovely dinner together.



Lots of laughs and stories...as usual. Every year Grandma Meyr wraps up a gag-gift for all of us. Last year she couldn't find where she put them, eventually found them later, and this year we got to open two! All of us have to open them at the exact same time. This year's goofy-gift was a wind-up toy that flips over. Matt and I got a monkey. Sophie enjoyed watching him do his thing.


The gift she had for last year was HILARIOUS! Have any of you ever seen one of these? It's called the Nun Chuck, and it catapoltes little plastic nuns from a "gun." This is what one website says about it: "Just load a nun into the catapult and pull the trigger to send a sister sailing. Great for working out your repressed Catholic school memories. Watch out, this one can become habit-forming!"
Very witty. I realize that this may be very offensive to some people, but overall we though the little gadget was pretty funny!



So that wraps up our Christmas extravaganza! All four parts of it! Phew! It was WONDERFUL to see so many family members and get some quality time with everyone, but I'm also a little relieved that January is here and life has slowed down a little bit!