The Plothows: Holidays 2010

Sunday, January 2, 2011

Holidays 2010

We had a very nice holiday, even though it flew by!

We started off in Indiana for Bob's retirement party. They put together a really nice video for the party. There were even some shots and video of Matt from high school. : )

We drove to Rochester the next day and hung out with my family. Lots of food, drinks and games. My mom and dad even beat Matt and me in euchre. I don't really know how that happened.

First of many games of Bananagrams

Everyone must have been really good this year because we all got a lot of nice gifts!

One of Matt's favorite xmas gifts!

Brett wraps his gifts up in old movie posters

Mom's new iPad

Brett and Matt with their new Bert hats

Matt loves his new Iowa hat!

We headed over to Quincy on Christmas afternoon. More fun times! Erik and Caroline flew in from Texas with their new baby Madeline. Such a sweet little girl!

Ross, Matt and Dad relaxing at Pat and Dan's house

Gramma and Chuck

As is tradition, the ladies had brunch together the day after Christmas. We brought my gramma with us so she could meet Madeline.

Gramma meeting little Madeline

She couldn't take her eyes off of her!

After brunch, we all met up at the casino for some holiday gambling. : ) I am not a big gambler, so I did a lot of watching. My mom and aunt Pat did really well. Matt played craps and blackjack and came out ok.

We drove back to Chicago Monday morning. It was a quiet week at work, which was nice.

We spent New Year's Eve at home this year, no big balloon drop or fancy party. A few friends stopped by before their dinner plans. Erin and Ross hung out with us for the night. We made pizzas and played games. They brought their new addition (Sofie) to party with us. She was surprisingly good at our condo... minus the dirt eating incident. She really liked our plants!