Well.....
Merry Christmas!!!!!
I made a goal to use my big camera instead of all cell phone pictures for Christmas this year. And I did a GREAT job of it....however...I did a terrible job of getting the pictures off of the camera!! So that's why I'm so late, maybe next year I can find a happy medium between big camera and cell pictures :)
We had a WONDERFUL season this year..... absolutely everything was great!! We started out Christmas Eve with extended family meeting for lunch. Here are the kids (they're all getting SO big)!
Then we went over to church and we took up almost the whole pew!! That was pretty fun, there's usually only 4-5 of us....but today there were 10 of us, my dad even surprised us all and found us in the church after work!
My baby girl is getting so grown up on me!
Our beloved elf, Rolo
After our wonderful Italian dinner was time to put out the reindeer food on the porch.... well, after about 30 minutes outside, the food turned into a rock and was feeding the ants....it was SOOOO muggy/hot outside that the oatmeal absorbed the moisture and turned into a brick! (it was about 80+ degrees on Christmas day and our air conditioner was on the fritz!)
The next morning, Mikayla slept until almost 6:00....she was flying all over the house!!!! We started a new tradition last year that my dad will spend the night with us on Christmas Eve and we can all have Christmas morning together. It's great fun!
Mikayla has seriously questioned the existence of Santa this year. She has a friend at school that has suddenly become the expert on life and told her there was no Santa.... UGH!
In any event, Santa came! She got a bunch of games from him this year.
Something that pushed her over the edge though was the fact that this strap (picture below) must have fallen off of the reindeer while they were eating the vegetables we left for them.... (the oats were inedible LOL)...
She was more excited about that than she was just about anything else.
It was fun opening our presents! :)
She has a few favorites but loves everything!
We set out some appetizers.
(part of my beloved Marquee letter obsession)
Another feast. We grilled some durock pork on the long bones...... and we had to be very strategic with our menu planning because we didn't have an oven to bake in.... well we can mostly heat up in it but to cook something....well it could go well or not.... (a whole different story to follow on the oven)
There we have it.....summed up awesomeness.
It was peaceful, it was relaxing, it was absolutely everything I wanted it to be!
Merry Christmas!!
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