Christmas Day

Christmas was quiet and a little more subdued than usual this year. We started our morning at my parents' house with Dad cooking the usual ham and eggs for breakfast (yum!). Then, we exchanged grab bag gifts with one another. But I think the true star of the show was Brody, who was celebrating his very first Christmas. He got a ton of gifts and was only awake (and interested) long enough to play with a few of them. But the rest of us had a grand time watching him and playing with him on this special day. We all realize that we have a lot to be thankful for this Christmas.




Next, we travelled over to Paul's parents' house to have Christmas lunch and to exchange gifts with each other there. We had a lot of fun (and so did Bo, Kason and Zoe who ran around like they knew it was a holiday!).

Finally, we headed back home to get things prepared for Christmas dinner, which we hosted at our house this year. We invited both of our families for dinner, so it was a bit of an ordeal trying to setup two tables in the dining room and living room. But after a few iterations we ended up with a suitable arrangement and the dinner went off without a hitch (thanks to Paul's amazing cooking skills).