Papa and Grandma were at my home this morning to visit and help us clean up the garage.  Papa is going to build us some new shelves to help us have a nice place to put our tools and things. 

My baseball team had a wonderful Christmas party at the Lininger's home.   They have a lovely large home.  All the boys played upstairs and the parents visited downstairs.  They had big trays of food, meats and cheese, veggies, pasta's and all kinds of goodies.

All the boys brought our bathing suits and played outside in the hot tub for about an hour.  
We each were to bring a $10 gift.  My gift was two packs of baseball cards.  We had a gift exchange.  It went something like this:  The first boy picked out a gift.  The second boy could steal that gift or pick another one. And so on.  My gift was the favorite gift and it was stolen a few times.  That made me feel good.

Everyone wore an ugly Christmas sweater/shirt.  My shirt was by far the best.  They all thought it was store-bought and they were impressed that my mother made it by hot gluing stuff on the shirt.  

The adult conversation lead to them talking about the rodeo.  My mom told them about my Mutton Busting experience.  She showed them three pictures of me and they were really impressed:
 Before

 During

 After with trophy and belt buckle
  The party started at 6:30pm and we got home at 11pm.  Like I said it was lots of fun and I didn't want to leave.