Christmas fun

Somehow, I didn't manage to get many pictures of Christmas! We woke up at a bright and early, I think 4 or 5am? It must have been too early to remember! Not because Duke was too excited to see what Santa brought him, but because we were able to Ichat with the Jake and Belle Cheney family (on the East coast) while they opened the gifts that we sent them. Thanks, Jake and Belle for letting us be a part of your Christmas morning fun!

After we did East coast Ichat, we slept for a couple of hours until my sister and her family woke up and we did Ichat with them as well as they experienced the fun of Santa visiting them through the night!

This was the life size stocking that I was hoping to have filled by Santa... I must not have been a good girl, because it didn't happen :)

Christmas day, Duke worked, so we exchanged gifts before he went to work, I dropped him off and came home to make some goodies to take in to his work. After he got off work, around 6pm, we packed the car and drove to Gooding, ID to spend a couple of days with the Cheney families. We had a great time, and it was great to be with family!

I did manage to get these two pics of the Cheney family fun (bus ride to Twin to the movies!):

We returned home to Reno, and then my parents and sister, Kendl, made the trip out to Reno. Here's just the few pics that we did manage to take:

First, if you know anything about Reno, you know there aren't many exciting things to visit and take pictures of. One thing, however, is the below sign:

Should you manage to make it to the "strip" in downtown Reno (which is nothing like the strip in Vegas) the above sign is on the strip.

We decided it would be fun to go to one of the free circus shows at Circus Circus... I was quite excited about this since we hadn't made it to one of the shows yet. We made it to the casino, to the 2nd floor where all the games are and found a place around the platform where the show would take place (which was way crowded and rude people shimmied their way in front of me blocking my view... urgh) to find that the free show that night was a mighty lame dog show! After the show, it took some convincing, that there wasn't going to be another show, for me to leave... I was just sure there would be something better! Here we are as we excitedly wait for another show to start (that actually never happened):

We decided to play one of the games before we left (one where all six of us could play at the same time to increase our odds of winning a prize!) It took us two rounds, but we managed to win this:

Kendl is now the proud owner of a $12.00 stuffed animal with valentine candy on it (the amount of money we spent to play the game)

The entire Circus Circus experience was quite humorous since we all were really tired and I basically had to drag the family out of the apartment to go... then the show ended up being a lame dog show! Good thing downtown Reno is only a few minutes away from the apartment :) And I'm sure Kendl will forever treasure that stuffed animal :)