Once again though, it wasn't so much what they got that they enjoyed as it was the opening of presents that they found to be fun. That's not to say they didn't like any of the presents. I forget who, but someone got an umbrella, and Catherine really liked walking around with it. 
Had to put the kibosh on that pretty quick since I could easily see some of the more breakable items in the room getting knocked over by the umbrella. Quinn got a coffee cup with his name on it. And I got the movie Serenity (best gift yet so far, although you just know there's going to be a special edition of it coming soon).
Will tuned Quinn's guitar while people opened presents, while Jo Beth was taking pictures of people with my Mom's new camera. We got the boring gift card for Will. He's in the process of setting up his own airbrush business apparently and needs some equipment, and rather than us guessing as to what he needs, we figured he could pick out whatever he wants. 
Jo Beth invited me to go snowboarding with her at some point, we'll see if that ever happens. It's something I've wanted to try for a while, but just don't have the time. Jo Beth also wanted me to let people know that she's available and that she's accepting applications from potential suitors.Yesterday was Will's birthday, and we hadn't done anything for Jo Beth or Mary on their birthday's earlier in the year either, so we took everyone to lunch at Redrock Canyon Grill in Centreville. Food was good as usual, and the waiter was extremely courteous and seemed very knowledgeable about if any peanuts were used in any of the foods (which made Ginger very happy).
We stopped by Wal-Mart on the way home so that Jo Beth could buy this electronic 20 questions game. That thing is pretty cool. I realize it's all just a huge decision tree, but it's still pretty neat. It was able to figure out platypus, emotion and sunglasses (it did have some trouble with "Dark Matter" though, although it's possible I answered the questions wrong, since the game guessed infinity, which I thought was pretty close). Once we got back home, the kids played some video games, air hockey and other stuff with Will and Jo Beth until everyone left.
The wind last night evidently took their toll on our inflatable snowman. He was in the hedge this morning and I couldn't locate a couple of the stakes that had been used keeping him anchored. So fashioned some new stakes out of coathangers and put snowman back up. I didn't do as good of a job this time, since he's facing completely away from the house and you can't see his front from our bay windows anymore. I was hampered in part just trying to find places in the ground that the stake would even penetrate (some of the ground seemed pretty solidly frozen). For now at least he's back up and functional again.
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