brink christmas

christmas day afternoon we headed over to jill and tim's house for our brink christmas.  though it was hard to pull ledger away from his stash of new toys, he came around when we told him that he would get to see mema, papa, and his cousins! 
this year we made it a bit easier on everyone and didn't have a big dinner together, instead everyone brought appetizers and desserts, which was really yummy and we still ended up full with plenty extra!
mema had even planned out a few fun gift games for the kids, which ledger didn't understand but was super thrilled when he won one or two!  papa still isn't feeling too well, but he was a champ and stuck with it through out the evening.  eventually we got to the gifts and it was a lot of fun to give out the different prizes we had picked out for all the nieces and nephew, as well as the rest of the family.  ledger was very pleased with his haul too.
it was a really nice time- its always great to spend some time with family, especially when there are gifts involved!
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