Christmas With The Tucketts

I finally made it home! I was away for over a year and it felt so good to be back. We got to my parents on the 28th and was able to spend the whole week with them. We got to see some new movies. Monday we went to Marley and Me which was way good. It touched a little too close to home for our family, but it was a pretty funny movie. My parents got a WII for Christmas so that was what much of our entertainment was the whole week. My nephew Baden loved playing with Todd. When my brother's got there Mariocart was constantly on.

New Years was just New Years. I sadly couldn't even stay up at all. We watched Wall-e and I feel asleep within the first 10 minutes. So needless to say I wasn't very exciting. Mom cooked our traditional Black Eyed Peas which Todd experienced for the first time. So now we'll have a year of good luck! At least I hope so.

For the New Years weekend my parents got us all a room at The Great Wolf Lodge. It's a new hotel in town that has a huge water park inside. Scott and Todd had fun going and trying out the water slides. The kids loved it especially Baden. He was able to come on some of the bigger slides with us, but Brooklyn wasn't as daring.

Saturday we had our Tuckett Christmas. It was a blast as always. Todd got a new Army sweatshirt and t-shirt. I got a sweet to sewing basket and fabric scissors. I'm really excited to get everything organized. It made me want to start a new project. We both got our annual Christmas Eve PJs. My mom was very creative this year and made the girls all spa christmas bags. We got a towel, some bubble bath, chapstick, new razor, sleeping mask. Love it! Todd got a whole bunch of new tools in his bag. All the boys got a first aid kit for our next road trip. This was because of what they were like during Thanksgiving. My parents were amazing. They gave Todd and I something that I don't think either of us expected. A new video camera! It's awesome. Todd was so excited. He started playing with it that night. It came with a tri-pod too. We must have been pretty good this year to have deserved it. After the kids opened our presents we took my parents up stairs and gave them theirs. We bought a DVD Recorder so that we could burn all our old home videos into DVDs. We sat around and watched a couple of them later. It was so fun. Todd and I got a kick out of watching them when we were recording everything, but it was so much more fun with every one there.

Sunday Scott, Julie, Spencer, and Jordan had to leave and it pretty much ended our week. We had so much fun and created so many more memories. I'm so grateful we were able to go down this year. I couldn't have asked for anything else.