| We enjoyed lots of Christmas this year! We started things off with a party at our apartment, where we gave out presents to our friends here. We made picture frames for everyone here, which everyone liked except Juan. When he opened his up, he was looking at the back, and he kept looking at his, and then looking at everyone else's, thinking he got gypped. He liked the front considerably better =)
Jack and Patricia gave us Turbo Cranium, which is significantly better than normal cranium. It makes you do Gnilleps as a team, which makes it much harder. And they changed the one where you act like a famous person and can say anything to just giving three clues, which is good because that one was way too easy. And they added Zooma which is just fun. You have to figure out what these pictures that are zoomed in are. The best is the puppet show. One team member manipulates anothers arms and legs to act out the clue. HILARIOUS!
Tulsa Christmas
Our next Christmas was in Tulsa =) We went to Dad's where I FINALLY got to meet Tiffany, my brother Jason's girlfriend. And, just like everyone had said, she is wonderful =) She also loves to play games, so we got along very well. We had an amazing time with Dad, playing all sorts of games. I think Jason and I were a little surprised to discover just how good Dad is at Turbo Cranium. I think Dad was surprised at how much he enjoyed it too! It was so much fun! Ok, now I sound like an ad for the game, so I'll move on.
Barrett's Birthday
Barrett is one year old! He's so big already =) He didn't like the cake from the grocery store that much, but he liked chocolate sheet cake!
Raegan
Raegan is such a cutie =) She's more shy than Barrett, but once she gets to know you she talks in full paragraphs. It's still sort of a foreign language that she's speaking though. Michael thinks it's Korean I believe, but none of us are sure. Every now and then she uses an English word though =) She also dances! Yes, I spent a lot of time with my new camera taking movies of her doing that. It's so cute!
 The day Barrett, Casey, Jen, Eric and I spent at her house, we had a lot of fun with her new musical instruments.
Stroud Christmas
Christmas in Stroud was the usual wonderful chaos that I love =) All my brothers, sisters, nieces and nephews were there. It was great! Mom's new kitchen is wonderful for entertaining, and we got full use out of it. We played a lot of Apples to Apples, croquet (even though we nearly froze!) and Imaginiff.
  
Norman Christmas
We got to have a Christmas in Norman too! It was fun seeing everybody! We stayed with Gavin and Jennie, but we also got to see Jessie, Scott and Baby Nate, and Tom and Emily and Summer. Jessie's sister Jackie got married, so we made some bouquets and boutonnieres. Jessie's Mom was very nice to share Nate with me occasionally.
 
Gavin and Jennie gave us an awesome new game based on the webcomic we love, OOTS. For those of you who don't know, OOTS stands for Order of the Stick. The comic is hilarious, especially for those of us who have played dnd. We have a link to it in our links section. I'm too busy typing to look it up right now. If I stop I'll never finish this update =) Anyway, the game is FUN, even if it is sometimes a bit long. It doesn't have to be if you are working together, but if you're too competitive, it can be extremely long =)
California Christmas
Our next Christmas was in California! It actually happened on New Years Eve. Tina came into town from Colorado! It was so great to get to visit with her!. Santa brought me a 2gb memory card for my new camera, which came in very handy as I filled my memory card up with over 700 pictures during Christmas! That's a lot of pictures. It took me so long to sort them out I still haven't scrapbooked them =) Don't worry, I will though!
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