Family and Friends at La Salette Shrine Christmas Lights

La Salette Pond
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Today we continued to get ready for Christmas. House cleaning, organizing, wrapping and celebrating. Earlier in the day I set Andrew’s room up with Hot Wheels Wall Tracks so that he had a special place to play in his new space. We moved his changing table out a few days ago because Andrew has something special coming at Christmas and the Wall Tracks are just the beginning. He seems to like it. Watch the video to see how smart and quick he is when presented with a problem to solve.

This afternoon we went to La Salette Shrine to see the lighting of the lights. We try to go to it every year as part of our Christmas traditions. This year was a little different. We got together with my cousins and their kids as well as friends of theirs who have become friend of ours. The kids had a fantastic time. The girls were reunited and fast friends once again. Andrew tagged along as much as he could with them. He did try and hold the hand of one of our friend’s daughters but ended up holding a handful of sleeve most of the evening. The lights were excellent as always. It was sort of sad not to see Clopper the donkey there but someone made up a petition to have him removed even though he was well cared for. Well, there is still at least a story about clopper to read around the place.

After the lights everyone came over and we enjoyed pizza and games and conversation. It was a nice night, maybe a new tradition!

Unboxing Marvel Collector Corps X-Men Box

X-Men Wolverine Motorcycle
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My latest Marvel Collector Corps Box arrived today. The theme of this one was X-Men. I am really happy with the contents of the box. Inside was a Storm Patch, Magneto’s Helmet for a Pin and a Tshirt of Xavier’s School for Gifted Youngsters. On top of that was a comic book, Champions #1, a Rock Candy figure of Mystique and a Pop Rides which was Wolverine’s Motorcycle. That was the coolest thing in the box. I love Wolverine and him on a motorcycle with his claws out on one hand is epic. The Mystique figure is also good but Wolverine is the best.

A quiet day with Andrew today, I actually got to play some video games. I played LEGO Dimensions for a while in the Simpsons level and it was a lot of fun. I found all sorts of hidden areas in the level, too.

Speaking of LEGO, I went to film SteamDads with my friend Brian tonight. We filmed the episode that will post on Wednesday. This is going to be a fun one. After that we filmed an episode of Brian’s Built from Bricks show. Last week he guested on my show and this week I guested on his. We did a holiday themed episode with a fun set of LEGO pieces that he modified to be quite festive.