CHRISTMAS HAS COME AND GONE

Well Christmas has now come and gone for another year and from what I saw it looked like everybody had a pretty good time and probably ate a little to much. If you are not tired of turkey and ham yet there might be something wrong with you. As you an tell by the time I posted today's entry I am off today, I fell like I am working for the government getting a an extra day off. Well I have to say the prize for the biggest Christmas surprise was having Scott, Joy, Scottie and Dusty show up out the house on Christmas eve, nobody new they were coming and I don't think Scott decided they were coming until sometime Thursday. Well the Woodfin family left this morning on there way back to Georgia. I have posted a link below to Al's Christmas day photos. I guess all the stores will start there after Christmas sales today, you might want to stay away from the mall area again today, there will be allot of shoppers looking for a good deal. In a bit of a sports wrap up for the weekend the Redskins blew another game Sunday falling to the Rams in OT 37-31, the Skins should have won this game but the defense I thought played a very poor game. The Green Bay Packers still have a shot to make the playoffs going to the NFL's final week of the season, they have to have the Redskins beat the Giants Saturday night and then they have to beat the Bears on Sunday night, it could happen. I have added a countdown clock showing the amount time before first day of baseball practice as requested by several bloggers, it really not that far off. Also it appears mom is a bit under the weather this morning, I think she might of some type of flu. Well again I hope everybody had MERRY CHRISTMAS. MICKEY

CHRISTMAS DAY PHOTOS
http://public.fotki.com/bp2/family_photos/christmasday2006/

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