My Christmas in pictures.

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The rest of the pictures are up on the Flickr page.

Here is an attempt at a rebus story about our holiday.  Since I already wrote a summary yesterday, I thought this would be fairly easy.  It wasn't and It took longer than I thought it would.  I kind of cheated near the end.

As per tradition, the kids and I went to the Mall of America.  It was a beautiful winter day.You could see the sun shining on the  snow through the
.  That brightened up the place a lot.  Also, as per tradition, we went to
  to
.  Not so healthy, but the kids like it.  We then hit several rides.   
did not want to leave until he got to ride on the
.   
After the boys went home, I finished up all  the rest of the
.  The house looked great!  Then it was time for Breda (SIL) and I to work on 
     We had to move the dining tables into the family room to have enough room for everyone to
.  Finally, it was
time.   Everyone was happy to
their
  Especially
.  The  
  on Sean's shirt made us laugh a lot.  It was a great evening.

On Christmas Morning, we went over to my  
place for
.  We all wore our 
too.

I love how my
  decorate for Christmas.  No
  just
over the windows and a bunch of other
s.
After Brunch, we played
and
and  
  for many hours until it was  time to go home.