I'm going to recap our Christmas celebrations... I'm not posting many pictures... but did decide to post a few!!! So here we go!!!
We really enjoyed the Christmas season this year. We celebrated as usually with Chuck's family in between Thanksgiving and Christmas... therefore we celebrate "Thismas"... fun, huh? We did a dinner and a "Game Gift Exchange". Each person (young and old) brought a wrapped game and then we did the traditional white elephant gift exchange rules. It was fun and I think we all got into it!
We celebrated with my family (the Rowley's) the Sunday before Christmas. We had breakfast for dinner (goes over really well with the kids) and then did a gift exchange... we all drew names. It was fun because Garrett (3 yrs old) had me. He picked out my present all by himself... a 12-pack of Dr. Pepper, a gift card to the Scrapbook store and a balloon blower-upper. I loved it! And Macee had Billy (my brother)... he told me, let her pick out whatever she wants to give me and you know I will love it. I was afraid she would pick out a barbie or pony, but she surprised me! I asked her what she wanted to get him and she said "Shooter guns... like... POP... in my eye... the marshmallows." So it was Marshmallow guns Chuck helped her make and she gave Billy 6 guns plus ammo (mini-marshmallows). Everyone was way excited about what they received and we had a great time (as a re-united family!!!)
We had Christmas with Grandma Nichols on the Monday before Christmas... dinner, presents, LOTS of kids and TONS of fun! I really enjoy getting together with my Papa cousins! We don't do it often enough. So when we do get together we enjoy it!
We celebrated with the Mortensens a few times this year. We decided that instead of exchanging gifts we were just going to spend time and make memories together. I hope this turns into a tradition because it was so nice to spend time and enjoy our BESTEST friends ever! We took a Saturday and got together in the afternoon and we decorated cookies with the kids to be delivered to grandma's & grandpa's and also to be eaten by us! But before the decorating began us moms had a gift for each kid. We made them their very own aprons. They loved them. And they were all unique, each to match that kid. It as fun! Then we had a yummy "Taco Salad" Christmas dinner. Then we were off in the "bus" to deliver cookies, sing to our grandma's & pa's and go light looking! We came back to our house, got the kids ready for bed and then put a movie on for them and played cards til LATE (I think it was past 1am...). We sure enjoyed that day with the Mortensens. Then we went with them to Christmas Eve breakfast (a second year tradition) at Hometown Buffet. We had a great time! Thanks for the fun Mortensen's!!!
Then for Christmas we went to Thatcher to spend the holiday with Chuck's parents. We left on Christmas Eve so we could wake-up Christmas morning and hope Santa found us! And that he did. We sprinkled Reindeer food out (thanks Griners) and left cookies, milk and CHEESE... He found us and left some fun stuff! We had a great Christmas this year. And we even woke up to a sprinkling of snow on the ground. So we put baggies on the kids feet and let them play outside for awhile. Chuck even made a little snowman. So fun! Thanks mom & dad for letting us spend Christmas with you guys! While we were there we visited my cousin Kristen and her family and also went to dinner with the DeSpains... friends from down there. It was quite a fun weekend.
And New Years Eve we spent with Billy & Karen, Fawn & Devon, Katie & Renny, Peter & Ruth and lots of kids. We went to B&K's house and we set out a nacho bar, junk and drinks and we played games into the night... celebrating with sparklers and firecrackers at 10pm and playing games again until mid-night. We had a great time and enjoy the company of all who were there. My kids were super excited they actually lasted until mid-night.
So there is the holidays in a quick re-cap.
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