But first here is a play by play of what we did:
On Christmas eve Chris and I slept in, which was very very nice. We slowly started our day by (Chris) cooking and (me) finishing up some last minute presents and wrapping.
At about 3pm we went to my parents for a Christmas Eve dinner. we ate there and then at 5:30 went to Chris's Grandma's house for a Christmas Eve dinner and a few games. After that we went back to my parents and watched Christmas Vacation and did a Christmas Puzzle.
We than went to Chris's Mom's house and spent the night there so we could do Christmas morning with his family. We woke up a little before 7 and opened presents. Chris's mom got us a camera!! very exciting. Chris got me a cricut and I got chris new computer speakers and WOW (World of War craft, for those of us that didn't know what that stood for). We then headed home and took a nap and then got ready and went to my moms at 10 and opened presents there. My mom got me seasons one through fourteen, and season twenty of The Simpsons which was just AWESOME! We ate breakfast and then all got in the car and went to my Grandma Cook's.
There we ate lunch and did the family exchange and surprise, surprise our family got The Simpsons scene it! we are very excited; very fitting if you ask me. Chris and I then got in the car and went to his grandma's house and had dinner and just hung out for a little bit and then went home and we both were playing with our new toys. Then at about 7 we went to my parents house and played a game called "Word on the Street" girls against boys which was way fun, but then Ella got upset and the games were brought to an end.
On Sunday we went to Chris's Doxey side and had an ugly sweater party which was a blast!! There Chris's aunt had a great idea of having a pasta bar, instead of ham and potatoes! It was way good!
All in all the festivities were a lot of fun, but were not done yet. Thursday Chris and I are going to get on a plane and head down to Texas to visit his Dad's family for a week.
Now I wanted to run down some of the things that Chris and I did for our traditions and maybe get some ideas for when we have kids and it really counts..
I started out by making Chris and I some stockings. They looked like this
for our "Santa" presents to each other. The presents from Santa were wrapped in wrapping paper that had pictures of Santa's on it. Growing up we never had our Santa presents wrapped but I thought it would make it more exciting.
We also had Christmas Eve pajamas that we unwrapped and wore. (Chris hated his... I tried though).
That's about all of the Christmas festivities so far. I will let you know how Houston goes, maybe take some pictures with our new camera!
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