After our exciting Monday, we spent Christmas Eve and Christmas Day hanging out as a family, playing games, eating lots of food, remembering the reason for the season, and, of course, opening presents. After Christmas, Matt and Jonathan headed out to ski for 2 days while the rest of us went to playgrounds and played with the new toys in the house. Ruth was well loved by all the little boys in the house, but especially by Seth and Micah.
All too quickly though, the week came to an end and the Wainman's headed home. Grandma Pat was supposed to stay with us another week, but we got word that her sister, Aunt Rachel, was not doing well so Grandad and Grandma Pat drove to Kansas to see her. It seems illness was setting in everywhere, because the rest of our house immediately fell victim to the flu, colds, and who knows what else. By Sunday. everyone was sick :(