Christmas in Indiana

Before we left for Virginia Beach, we went ahead and did our gift exchange at the house in Indiana.  Since Rebecca and the boys won't be coming back here, we figured we would open most of the presents and just leave those items that will be shipped as opposed to what we want to lug through airports.  Rebecca was struggling with strep throat and I had something going on (probably due to the cocktail of inoculations I received Friday), so for your benefit most pictures are of the children.  Anyway, the favorites were:

Rowan:  Football and Baseball pillows, a bike lock, overall he was sorely disappointed that he doesn't have a DS like his brothers, even though he can't read yet.
Riley:  DSi (insists that everyone call it an "intendo DSi" to distinguish it from Reid's earlier model DS)
Reid:  A real digital camera, DS games
Rebecca:  Nook, bike basket for tooling around China
Dave:  DSLR camera, Colts "Snuggie"

We took off the next day and drove both vehicles to Virginia.  The boys took turns in the truck with Dad for "mini man time", as Riley coined it.  Even though the car has the dvd player, they all wanted to be in the truck for a second turn.  Maybe it's because I bribed them with Pringles, or possibly it was the dull hum of the road that lulled them all to sleep.  Trucks are just cool, apparently.  I should have taken a picture of the loaded vehicles, but I neglected my blog duties.  Instead, please enjoy the below victors with their Christmas spoils...

P.S.  I am now an unashamed Snuggie convert.  On a day I was recovering from Hepatitis A&B, Typhoid and Japanese Encephalitis all at once, it comforted me like nothing else could.