Christmas Update Part II

So we have started a new tradition at our house for Christmas. My mom invites the Clark side of my family to her place every year for Christmas. On the surface I must commend my mother for being the type of person that divorced my dad but can still remain so close to the dad's side of the family. You hear so many broken home stories but luckily for me this really doesn't apply because there is no hostility and there are never any awkward situations.

I love Christmas because it gives me an opportunity to hang out with my family and play games and not have to worry about every day stresses like work and more recently transportation. It also gives me a chance to act like a kid. For some reason my cousins love me and always want to play games with me and I think that's because deep down inside I do. This year two of my cousins couldn't attend because their family had World Junior hockey tickets and didn't want to miss any games so they couldn't bother me that day. Two of my other cousins are starting to get to the age where they want to play. Eric is 4 and Brynn is 2 and Brynn likes to run around saying "You can't catch me!" I like to ignore her for a little while and then she starts to get more aggressive in trying to get my attention, so whenever she gets close enough I turn around and grab her yelling "I got you!"

Above picture is Alicia and Brynn

The Clark side of our family also loves to play games so it was real nice playing games with around 20 family members and seeing new faces for the first time in quite some time.