So we had Christmas in Olympia with my parents this year.  It was fun.  We all had a good time.  The snow was pretty awful but we managed.  We pretty much just stayed home.  I already posted about Christmas Eve events so I won’t go in to that.  Christmas Day was really relaxing.  We let the kids open their presents first while we waited for Adam and Kelly to arrive from across town.  The kids had a good time.  Stuart got his beloved Rock’ Em Sock ‘Em Robots game.  Andy got a bunch of miscellaneous stuff.

Once Adam and Kelly showed up the adults opened theirs.  All of the boys got X-Ray glasses (from the comics) and switch-blade combs from my father.  They are fun.  Well the combs are anyway.  The glasses don’t live up to the hype.  I also got 2 new D&D books.  Martial Power and The Manual of the Planes, which I’m very excited about.  I also bought a 3rd book, the Draconomicon, with some Christmas money from my parents.  I know I’m a geek.

The rest of the day we spent lounging around reading and playing with stuff.  It was very relaxing and fun to spend the time with family.  The girls all went to see Twilight in the afternoon.  We also did some miniature painting since Jake got a bunch in his stocking.

We stayed in Olympia for a few more days and then headed home.  My Dad was coming with us and my Mom was going to follow the next day.  We got to North Bend and found that it was snowing hard in the pass and chains were required.  My Dad didn’t have chains so we decided it would be best for him to return to Olympia to be safe.  It all worked out for the best because we wouldn’t have had much time to spend in Pullman.  We also arrived in Pullman to find that the snow plow had piled the snow from the street across our driveway so we had to dig that out as well.

Then came New Years Eve.  It was a Wednesday so naturally we couldn’t cancel our usual D&D session so that is what we did.  We got a bunch of food.  My friends all came over and we played D&D till 12:30 or so.  It was a good time.  Kami went to her brother’s house and played Rock Band 2 and had a good time there as well.

All in all a very good holiday.  Plus I didn’t gain any weight.

I found some motivation yesterday from Alex.  He sent me a link to this room.  This is the new plan for the bedroom downstairs.  It was going to be a fish project room but I think this is a much better plan.  I hope we can pull it off.  I finished the electrical in that room today.  Now I need to work on the electrical in the family room.  Then we will be ready for sheet rock.

Castle Room

Back to the room design.  I think the hardest part is going to be the table.  We would like it to either convert into a bed or to break down easily enough to put a bed in for our guest.  I also want it to be hollow so that we can have a white board with a 1″ grid on it for our D&D and Star Wars games.

I think it should turn out quite nice and it will make a great place to play games.

Yesterday I bought a figure for our latest D&D campaign.  I’m playing an Eladrin Wizard name Tathar.  Alex came over and helped me paint him.