Cousins at Christmas

We met my brother's family for our annual Christmas event.  We had a wonderful dinner at a local Italian restaurant, and then took in the lights at locomotive park, as always.

We always take a cousin picture in the park.  My suggestion to gather them around the doggy poo bag dispenser was not well-received.  Actually a couple of the kids thought it was funny and gathered for a pic, but sometimes I have enough common sense not to put everything on my blog.  Sometimes.  Not often enough for some of my kids, but sometimes.

We settled on taking a picture with these lovely ice skaters.  Don't they have beautiful form?

Sledding Fun

We've had a lot of fun times on the famous Poxleitner sledding hill so far this winter.

A big group went out sledding prior to the Christmas party and an intrepid group of sledders also went out after the festivities.  Night sledding is always a good time.

The kids are so spoiled with getting a ride back to the top of the hill after every run.  They have no idea how good they've got it!

We've taken friends out sledding a couple times, too.

We don't have much snow, but we have enough.  It's packed hard though.  If you crash, there's no soft landings.  Thankfully we haven't had many crashes this year.  Yet.

Guitar Boy

Found a video of my boy playing guitar at our Christmas party.  He looks a little unsure of himself, but gets a few chords in there.  Not bad for his first time playing with someone!

The video quality isn't the best, but someday when he's a famous rockstar, it will be worthwhile.

Kaufman Band

After a fun-filled gift exchange that's full of thievery and stealing, we all settled in to listen to a little Kaufman music.

Morgan even got in on the act with his little guitar.  Phil's been helping him learn a few chords for the past year or so, so they played a song with only the chords he knows and he played along.

It may have been a little overwhelming to keep up with the big boys, but he did a great job.  As a mama bird, my heart swelled with pride at my little boy playing with the famous Kaufman band!  Okay, maybe not famous, but pretty darn good!

Piano Duet

We talked Ellea into playing a little Christmas music for us at the Poxleitner Christmas Party.

Then, we convinced her to let Christina sit down and play the accompaniment part.  She was skeptical, but she succumbed to the pressure.

It was tricky to play it together in front of a crowd for the first time, but they got through it.

And had a little fun doing it.

Pudding Pictionary

Every year we try to come up with a fun party game for our Poxleitner Christmas party. Last year it was Red Solo Cups.  The year before, it was all about noodles and ping pong balls.  This year, we tried Pudding Pictionary.

Yup, that's right.  We spread out a small container of chocolate pudding and drew in it.  It was fun to play in our food.
 

Even the little ones got to try it.

And taste it!

Look at that concentration!