Tuesday, January 6, 2009

Christmas in Virginia

The day after Christmas we headed down to VA for Christmas #3. Aunt Sheri was concerned the kids wouldn't enjoy Xmas in VA as much as in the past since the big stuff already occurred at home. So they decided to hide the kids presents around the house and give them a treasure map to find the 6 presents. Here is Jessica's face when she realized that there were no presents for her under the tree. Oh, poor Jessica.
Here is Aunt Sheri explaining the plan with the maps. The stars indicate where the presents are hidden (oh and that is Aunt Meg hamming it up for the camera).

Justin got very into the treasure hunt. In fact later in the week after we got home he hid my slippers and he and Jessica made a map for me to find them. Here is Justin whizzing by after locating a present. He dropped it off and then went in search of his next one.

Here are the Christmas elves, both hamming it up. Took this picture 3x before I got one where neither of them looked goofy- unfortunately it is a little out of focus.

Here is Grandma coming to steal one of Jessica's presents back from her- her attempt was unsuccessful.
And that dear folks is when I put down my camera and never picked it up again until it was time to leave. Oh well.

4 comments:

meg said...

>Took this picture 3x before I got one where neither of them looked goofy- unfortunately it is a little out of focus.>

what are you trying to say about sheri and i? we were wearing elf hats. i'm thinkin goofy was the theme. :)

Deb Hanna said...

well there was one where Sheri was all squinty eyed, then there was the one where you were all gangsta....

Kelly H. said...

Gangsta elf? Tee hee. Love those. Just wait until they decide to hide your car keys and make you a map...

Mrs. Cook said...

hee hee to what Kelly said!! :)