Christmas

This Christmas we had it with my family. We did Christmas a little early this year as well. The Saturday before Christmas, Candice and her family were in town so we opened up some gifts them. They opened up all of theirs but because my parents gave everyone the same gift we got to open that up and we got this awesome bowl that my parents painted. I will take a picture of it and post it. We also did our sibling exchange and I got a cupcake/cake/deviled egg carried, a keychain and a bread pan :) I was so excited. I needed those as well. We also got a game called Word on the Street from my grandparents. It's a fun and easy game. We had a lot of fun hanging out with them. Candice, Haley and I went shopping after we opened up gifts and looked around. I forget what we were shopping for, but we had a good time being together.

The Sunday before Christmas my mom's side of the family always have a Christmas party. We get together enjoy food and do a white elephant exchange. It's so much fun watching all the little kids open up the gifts and then the parents taking it from them so they can open up another if they don't like it. One of my cousins little girl opened up the first gift and she got a princess dress up jewelry and her face was priceless. It was so cute. For the past couple years a toilet seat is usually part of the exchange, but this year it didn't show its face. I was kinda sad about that but we still had a great time. Before we went to the party, Justin's parents were going to be out of town for the holidays so we opened up our Christmas from them as well. We got a lot of great things from them. We ended up with water storage, a 5 gallon water dispenser/cooler and much more. We enjoyed spending a little bit of time with them before they left.

On Christmas Eve it's a tradition to go out to dinner for my family so this year we went to Applebee's. We spent the night at my parents house so that we didn't have to have my parents call us to come over and open up gifts. The boys stayed up late playing games so when the time came for them to wake up, they didn't want to. We enjoyed opening up our gifts and spending time together. We went to my Grandparents (N) for breakfast around 11 and visited with family. After that we went to my other Grandparents (J) and spent time over there. We went back to my parents, spent time there and then went home later on Christmas night.

We were so glad that we were able to spend time with my family this year. We had a lot of fun talking and enjoying everyone's company. Thank you for everything. I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas as well.