Pyndo Family Christmas

A little behind these days which seems to be a common occurrence! But I've been making Cora's 1st Birthday invites (sniffle).. the are ready to be addressed now! Anyway last weekend was the Pyndo Family Christmas! Lots of fun, food and family!

Cole jumped next to Cora and said "Mommy take a picture" while I was taking pictures he asked "are we done?" As if it were my idea to be taking pictures in the first place!

A very common scene.. Cole and Cora rolling around on the floor together in tackle positions.. Cole better watch out. Cora is going to body slam him one of these days!

Final Christmas dress... once cousin Gabrielle and Julia's!

Babci and Cora learn about pine cones!

The boys were playing choo-choo down the stairs behind one another.. but when I grabbed my camera to take a picture of them like that they scrambled to sit next to each other..I guess they are too used to posing for pictures!

Cora checks out the outside

Babci had a neat drum from the Rose Bowl parade (at least I think that is where it was from!) and Cora caught on quickly how to use it!

We also played some fun games.. the point of the first one is you have a gift that is wrapped many many times with layers of wrapping paper. You have to pass a pair of dice around and the first person to roll doubles starts unwrapping. You quickly pass the dice around and the next person to roll doubles gets a go at unwrapping. The person to fully unwrap the gift gets what is inside... the catch? you have to wear oven mitts while you are unwrapping!!!

Game #2 - Candy cane pass. Two teams. Everyone has a candy cane in their mouth and they pass a candy cane down the line of their team.. and back. First team to complete wins! This one we played twice. The same team won both times.

And finally we played two Yankee Swaps. One was new gifts, the 2nd was used gifts.. Caden was very upset when our gift was taken, he thinks it is a very unfair game! me too! our gift was cool! My cousin Billy is a DJ and had these DJ Pyndo shirts made up.. Rob was #1 and got the t-shirt and something else, but ended up trading it in the end for a digital weather station. But Cole modeled the shirt first, it was cute!