Our Christmas section for 2005 is now complete.  I added a bunch of highlight photos this morning.  We took a ton of them though, so I only posted a few.  Click on the thumbnail to view them.

Interesting highlights from this year included:

• The puzzle Matt had to solve to get his gift card.  It’s called Bilz Obstacle, and Ginger got it for Matt to make his gift more than just a “get and forget” gift card.  It worked well, and actually took Matt a little while to solve.
  
• Nice to see everyone in the family “going digital” (Beth and George) – Except old-fashioned Penny.
• Kevin loves his new Roboraptor and Mini Roboraptor.

The Bears/Packers rivalry was in full swing this Christmas, even more so because the rivalry game itself was played on Christmas.  Yes, we watched it, and Sandy managed to plan the festivities around it pretty well so as not to force anyone to have to leave early.  There’s a really interesting mix of Packers and Bears fans in the family, so things get quite amusing to say the least.  I’m neutral, but Sandy’s a Packers fan.  The Bears won this one, but she wasn’t too disappointed.  Christmas turned out being pretty good, and that’s what really mattered.

Socks also got along very well with all of our guests, which was a surprise.  We thought we’d have trouble with him, especially after the way he acted when I tried to bring him over to my dad’s a few weeks ago to play with Tiny.  He was constantly agressive and kept trying to attack Tiny.  I ended up bring him back home and going back alone.  He was a bit nervous each time a new guest arrived on Christmas, but he came around quickly and cozied up to each of them for some petting a little while after each of them arrived.

Overall it was a very nice Christmas!