Every Day I'm Shufflin'

Dear Family,
   Well, this was really an incredible week for me.  I can't believe how blessed I am to have such a family as you.  It was so spectacular to be able to spend this week just enjoying one another, and being all together.  I would like to share a few of my personal highlights from the break, which, btw, was possibly my favorite vacation with the family that I've had in years.  Well, here we go:

1.Playing at the Nickel-cade with Sophie
  a.Fruit Ninja Extravaganza
  b.Taking tickets off the other machines when people had left them  :)
  c.Playing the shooting game with the giant spiders.
  d.Playing japanese DDR, and realizing too late that they play with diagonal tiles instead of Left, Right, Up, Down.
  e.Singing the baby-bottle pop song.
2.Playing Powergrid
  a.Sabotaging Luke so that he would lose
  b. Having Emma sabotage me (didn't like losing, but I love that she was ruthless...)
  c.Playing about a dozen times = Priceless
3.Playing Monopoly
  a. Watching Corey wipe the floor with everyone and winning her first game ever!
  b. Listening to Corey ask me how proud I was of her over and over after the game :)
  c. Owning a monopoly that Jack built Hotels on for me, shortly before he died, and I remained!
4.Getting an awesome birthday CD from Jackob
5.Getting an Awesome Gift Card from Mamma och Pappa
  a.Getting p90x so I can be sexy, fine, hot, cause 'I work out'....'wiggle wiggle wiggle wiggle wiggle...'
  b.The King and I
  c.The Music Man
  d.Home Alone
  e. The Santa Clause
  f. Power Grid Expansion
  g. October Sky
  h. Community Season 2 and 3
  i. Mr. Hollands Opus
6. Driving home with Jack and  Corey and looking at people's Christmas lights
7. Stuffing
  a.Stuffing later that night
  b. Stuffing the next day
  c.  Sadness over no more stuffing the next next day.... :(
8. Grape Pie
9. Guesstures
  a. The goofy trophy...(oh boy...give that to me!!!)
10. Taboo
  a.Having Corey buzz me over and over till I get fed up and read all of the 'Taboo'words
  b. Sophie getting progressivly louder as she describes words
11. Listening to Christmas Music
12. Beating Sky City NM, and getting an awesome Steam Saw for my Barbarian.
13.SUPER SMASH BROTHERS
  a. beating luke as Pikachu
  b. beating luke as DK
  c. beating luke as jigglypuff
  d. beating luke with my fists after he beat me with anyone
  e. beating luke as mario
  f. beating luke as ness
  g. never ever ever beating anyone as Link...
14. Jack giving me a free grilled cheese at just the right moment when I was hungry
15. Jacks relatively speedy convalescence
16. Grandpa Dick playing hearts and LOSING to YAYA!
17.Watching Grandpa Dick Jr. Shoot the Moon = Be--ah-you-tih -full...
18. Having a queen bed to sleep in at Yayas...gonna miss that size
19.Having awesome Cincinnati style chili
20. Spending a fantastic week with my family, the best of all.

I love you all, thanks for an amazing time.  You're the greatest of all time, and I love that we have all eternity together.

Max