Our Christmas

We had the best Christmas. I am so blessed to have the family that I do. This was a quiet Christmas. We started out by making caramel corn for neighbors then eating tamales for our Christmas eve dinner. After that we made homemade cinnamon rolls...YUMMY!! Then as a family we opened one gift (new pj's) put them on and watched A Christmas Story. I had never seen that show before and heard from tons of people that it was good. I agree. When the show was over the kids went outside to sprinkle "Grinch be gone" that Lexie brought home from school, placed some cookies and eggnog out for Santa and went to bed.

We woke up at 6:30 on Christmas morning. Santa was very good to us this year. As a family we got the Kinect and a dance game and we played that all day :) Our church was at noon and our ward only had sacrament. Came home and ate some ham, sweet potatoes, green bean casserole and bread. Then later pie. We neglected to take photos of our Christmas. I regret that. So here are a couple more from the Christmas party :)

Family Christmas Party

This year we had our big family get together on December 10th. We had it in our carport. We had a nice country Christmas. The carport was decorated with lots of straw and lights. The dinner menu was chili, cornbread, salad and other goodies. What would a cold night be without hot cider and coco. We played a trivia game, and went on a hay ride around the neighborhood. The kids sang carols and we all had a fun time. We had a surprise visit from Santa himself. This year all of the dads were actually around to see him.