Christmas Festivities

This year was our first year to stay at our own house on Christmas Eve night. We normally go stay at one of our parents, but when we built the new house we decided we would start staying home. We had a great Christmas Morning with each other. My husband did an excellent job surprising me this year. We always seem to know what we are going to get, but this year we tried to keep it a secret. After we got up and played Rockband on the Wii for awhile I called to talk to my mom and she told us we better hurry over if we wanted to make it before the storm got to bad. So we headed over to Fielding to celebrate Christmas with our family.

First stop was Gm Kent's house. She has breakfast every year for all the family. It is quite crowded, but it sure makes grandma happy to have us all their! This year grandma gave us some items to help us be prepared. It was a great gift and something we all could use.

After Gm Kent's we headed over to Paula & Jed's to give them their gifts. They had already sent our gifts home with us last week. We were suppose to have a party later on that evening with Cade's brothers, but with the storm none of them were able to make it.

We then went to my parent's house and had our traditional Christmas lunch and then opened gifts. I love the gifts my mom and dad give us every year. They always give us items that we can really use. This year mom focused on a little food storage and household supplies and my dad gave the guys a shop vac. Also for the past little while I have wanted to get together with my mom and make me an apron. I see them all over and think they are so cute, but would be so much cheaper to make, well to my suprise my mom made all the married women an apron! I just loved it. I left it on most the afternoon after we took a photo with them on. Also, another gift my dad got for the whole family was a popcorn cart. My mom, Becki, Maddi, and I all put it together and then tried it out to see how it worked. The grandkids loved it and now every time they come over to my parent's house they want to go down and make some popcorn.

After we got done at my parent's we headed over to Cade's moms. We just hung out with her and Jed and played a board game. We ended up sleeping over night their because of the bad snow storm.