The Year of the Pinata

So every year for Christmas my parents give us money. It is a great gift, but what makes it even better is the way they give it to us. Each year they come up with a creative way to give us the money. One year it was all in one dollar bills stuck together in notepad style and stuffed in a dirty old DI purse. Another year is was sewn into a Build-A-Bear. We got it in a sealed Monopoly game replacing the monopoly money, the list goes on and on. My parents are so fun and every year we are to excited to see what idea they have come up with.

This year my dad brought out a wrapped wooden bat for each couple. We all opened them and wondered what in the world we were supposed to do with them. Then the boys noticed that the bats looked as though my dad had drilled through the wood and corked them. Carter was getting ready to go out in the garage and drill it out to see if the money was in the hollowed out bats, when out came my dad with an armful of pinatas ( he had gone to all the work of drilling a hole in the bat and plugging it just to throw us off!) He handed them to us and we knew right away what to do with them. It was a blast-each of us breaking our own pinata to see what was inside. Carter and Jackson made short work of ours and soon candy was spilling out everywhere. My parents had painstakingly wrapped the bills around Tootsie Rolls, and in Dots boxes! It took us quite a while, but we finally figured it all out. It was so much fun, and so kind of my parents, they always make things so enjoyable and exciting.

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Carter and Jackson going for it

Kasey breaking his pinata a non-traditional sort of way





Kevin and Ashley with their loot