Our Christmas Day

We had an outstanding Christmas day. All of our extended human family came over to visit,open gifts and eat a yummy dinner. Nathan and Angie brought the grandsons, Andrew and Alex. We played with them and their new toys for hours. They brought gifts for Mom, Dad , Josh, Joe and us too. We got three new chewy toys with big rubber kongs and ropes, plus some doggie cookies. Andrew got a Transformers video game and a football, he let Pearl play catch with the ball. Alex got a Wack -A-Mole Tower. It was kind of noisy with bells ringing and lights flashing when he hit the mole hard enough to get it to the top target. Gracie didn't really like it too well, she kept barking at it and Kes tried to catch the mole before it went down under the hammer. Everyone was laughing at them until Gracie got embarrassed and ran and hid under Mom's bed. Then Mom let Alex take it downstairs to the family room where we don't go much. That way he could hammer away the mole to his heart's content and the grownups could talk in peace. (And Gracie could come out from under the bed)  Josh let Andrew play some of his new video games along with his . Then they took us outside for a walk and to play in the snow for a while. Dad made a fire in the fireplace and Joe put in Polar Express for Alex and Andrew to watch downstairs. We all came back inside to warm up and eat.  Mom made a big pot of home-made beef stew with warm crescent rolls. We had a huge deli meat and cheese tray, shrimp, chili-cheese dip and chips, a veggie tray, pumpkin  pie, pecan pie, chocolate cake and x-mas cookies. Mom got an assortment of gourmet bread for the sandwiches and a fresh pineapple for Dad. He brought a bottle of wine  for the women and a bottle of spiced rum for the guys. Dad likes to put a pineapple slice in his rum and coke. Joe and Josh prefer beer better though. They had some of that in their fridge in the garage. (The adult humans seem to like to celebrate with spirits and food followed by coffee.) We just like the food part. We each got our own little plate of goodies and a bowl of stew. MMMMM.. We love holidays...and cheese....