On December 19th we (David, the cats & I) headed up to Elkins, WV to celebrate the holidays with my dad & step-mom. We got in safely around 11 Friday night and let the boys get adjusted before heading to bed. Since Casper was with us at Thanksgiving, it was a pretty easy transition and they seemed excited to see each other. Saturday we spent a leisurely day before heading to the Chinese restaurant in town for dinner and then to the Christmas Show at the American Mountain Theater. They were silly and sang songs, told the story of Christ and had a patriotic moment too. It was alot of fun, my favorite part was the chickens that "bocked" the Carol of the Bells...hysterical!
My brother Mark & sister-in-law Kayla arrived Sunday night and we've been hanging out since. Unfortunately, one of Dad's friends passed away last week and Dad traveled to VA for the funeral Monday. While he was gone us kiddos hung out with Linda dining at the Mexican place Sunday night and then heading to Buckhannon for some shopping on Monday. Mark & Kayla made this cat tree for Casper, you can tell who really loved it? 
All 3 boys, best buds!
Here's dad & Casper in his favorite spot.
This was one of Casper's toys that I was curious about. I turned it on and put it in front of Scotty who paid attention to it for about 2 minutes.
My sweet Scotty cuddled up in fleece
On Tuesday morning David & I went to the YMCA for a workout since we had already had lots of yummy goodness and we are just at the start of our 2 week family (and food) extravaganza. It was nice to work up a sweat - hopefully we'll be able to make that happen again during our vacation time! After showers, David headed outside to help my brother with our dad's gift. We had made him open a gift early - we got him a new pulley system for his canoe (that he stores on the roof of the porch). The boys got it all set up and here they are attempting to pull it up for the first time...
They got it up to the top - will it stay up?
It works!
That afternoon we headed to the theatre to see the Tale of Desperaux, which was cute but not nearly as funny as Four Christmases which we saw a few weeks ago (very funny!). Then we headed home to get Christmas dinner started and Linda made us a wonderful feast with ham (my favorite!) and afterwards we settled in to watch Wanted on DVD (definitely left something to be desired) while enjoying the fresh baked chocolate chip cookies I made while we watched. Wednesday morning we celebrated Christmas by opening our gifts. Here's a few pictures from the festivities...
Linda with her new fancy, schmancy Scrabble game
Scotty so excited to open his present - we've never had a cat try to get into the package before! He actually got a few pieces of tissue ripped off before he gave up and pestered me to open it.
My brother Mark and his wife Kayla with Scotty after all the gifts were open
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