Christmas in Arizona

We celebrated Christmas at our house this year, since I didn't have any enough vacation time to make the trip back home. So both our parents, my sistser and her husband Chris were nice enough to come out to us. My aunt Linda was planning on coming too but she had to have back surgery and wasn't able to make the drive out to AZ. We were sad she couldn't make it, but her surgery went very well and everything is healing nicely, so we're glad she didn't attempt to risk it by coming out here. Here are some pics from Christmas day...


Ginger bread house building and an intense game of chess between my dad and Wally. Wally beat him, so my dad said I was officially allowed to date him now, haha.



Another "intense" game of checkers between Maureen and Chris... Maureen smile!!!

Most of Christmas day was spent working on a puzzle... just couldn't seem to pull ourselves away from it until it was finished, talk about addicting!!

The finished masterpiece...

We tried to get Yogi dressed up and into the chrismas spirt, but I don't think he was very happy about it...

For dinner my dad cooked a whole rack of prime rib, turned out amazing, as always... The hats are from these Christmas cracker things that we opened.