Trolinger Christmas 2012

We got home last night after several days in IN.  I wanted to get to these posts before we turned over into the new year, but we were all too tired!  But, here they are now, starting with the Trolinger Christmas event. :-)

We got to town around lunchtime on the 27th.  Pete's sister and her family got into town the night before, so they could celebrate with Adam's family.  We did our christmas with Pete's side of the family later that night.  Jill hadn't seen our newest nephew, Drew, since Sept.  We hadn't seen him since June!  He's growing so fast!

Now that our kids have Ipods and a Kindle, you would walk into a room and see all the kids on their devices.  They still played a lot, but nothing was funnier to me than seeing them all sitting on the couch, playing next to each other like that.

I tried to get all the grandkids in one picture, but Drew was napping when I took this.  Hey, getting 6 together wasn't too bad!

After Francy got off work, we ate a quick supper and headed into the living room to open presents.  The kids couldn't wait!  They were soooo excited!  We went in order from youngest to oldest (just with the kids, of course!).  Drew started us off. :-)

The kids were all gathered on the floor, taking turns opening their presents.  You can see how excited Livie was.

Madie got lots of new Monster High girls.  That was one of her major christmas wishes this year!

We fit a lot of people into that living room.  Sometimes it's hard to see what everyone is opening, but I think I got glimpses of all it as it was happening.

Trevor liked showing Drew how to work his new lawnmower.

Sue made all of us new scarves!  Isn't that awesome?!!  Loved it!

Pete's Uncle Scott got a new family picture of all of us.  The last one we took, Livie was only about a year and a half old.  Maybe 2 yrs?  Can't believe it had been that long!

The rest of the evening was spent playing on Pete and Andy's old Intellivision (I think that's what it was called).  It rivaled the old Ataris and played the lamest games.  It was hilarious!  Even with all the new technology, our kids still loved it.  Doesn't matter if a game is 30+ yrs old, as long as there is a screen and some buttons to push, they think it's great!  It was a really fun day to spend together as a family!