Trip Down Memory Lane

Last weekend when we were visiting with my parents my mom dragged out a couple of fun photos from when I was little. There was one that I still need to get even with Eric one, one shot is him looking into my backpack while I was standing next to him and the next is of him pulling something out of my backpack with such an innocent expression on his face while I sitting their smiling oblivious to anything going on.
This picture is of me in front of my grandma Luthy's Christmas tree. Going to my grandparents after Christmas at home was always one of my favorite childhood memories. We would go up to Bone earlier and we would pick out the best Christmas tree we could find and do a lot of sledding in the mountins. On Christmas all the grandkids would gather anxiously around the christmas tree as my grandma would hand out the presents. Now that I am getting older a lot of her presents that were made to be used mean to much to me to use them, such as hand stitched character dish towels, afgans, ect so much to grandma's dismay and a lot of finger shaking I put most of them away in my cedar chest. When we were through unwrapping the gifts we would almost always end up in a wrapping paper ball war, which I am sure you have all done. Then we would have a big Christmas dinner. Grandma would make our favorite chunky chicken noodle sauce and we would drown our mashed potatoes in it. We would eat until we were stuffed. I have always enjoyed getting together and celebrating together. What is some of your favorite childhood / holiday memories?