Christmas Fun 2011

Huffakers had an extended family Christmas party for all the Jack and Shirley Huffaker children, grandchildren, and many great-grandchildren on December 19, 2011.  57 people attending - wow!  How we are growing.  We had most everyone there except Kirk and his family who spent their first Christmas in Queesbury, New York in their new home.  We missed them terribly!  Hopefully I can get a picture or two from one of my kids to post here of the event.  We held it at New Horizon School.  It was very handy with the tables, kitchen, stage, sound system, and projector.  Yummy Mexican food  was on the menu.

Thursday some of the grandkids came to make "gingerbread houses" with grandma.  Well, they were really graham cracker houses, but it's the decorating that makes for fun.  Here's what they created.

Christmas Eve was spent experimenting different foods in the deep fryer.  Afterwards, we all felt we would float away with fat and oil in our digestive system.  Brock and Jesica's buffalo hot wings were one of the best foods we ate that night.  Steve and Brock set up a large propane heater and fire pit that made it cozier outside.  We sang Christmas songs around the fire pit, told funny stories, and really enjoyed being with each other.

Christmas Day we all met at 4:00 pm for "Fort Building". Josie came with her hair all festive as if she was in the "Grinch" movie.  How amazing was that? 

 Large cardboard boxes and duct tape were available to create our fort.  The little kids really enjoyed going in an out the fort.  Here are the kids being happy in the fort ....

 ......and then this showed up!

  Yes, we had much screaming and crying.

After eating ham sandwiches and salad, we watched the music videos made by each individual family and  again (like last year) we were entertained, we laughed, and were amazed at the crazy ideas everyone had. Shalene put together a great slide show of the entire year's events and it was wonderful to see how much fun we had in 2011.

Opening gifts and playing Kinnect finished out our busy Christmas Day.