Well it's been almost a week since Christmas. Our first Christmas in Iowa. Our first WHITE Christmas w. the kids! It was a wonderful day. The boys of course woke up early - (like 5:40am) and so they opened their stockings, while Jeff and I tried to sleep in a little more - since we were up until 2am wrapping (yeh we wrapped everything the night before...) so they took all the gifts from the tree -(at our prompting) and grouped them together in the family room per person - so we could sit by our pile and begin the opening fun! that bought us alittle more time. We finally got up around 7:30 - All our gifts were so thoughtful from our families and friends - even though we were far away from our families this year - we still enjoyed a family christmas together!we spent the day napping, baking and playing with new toys... in our jammies!
Later in the day, we shared a Christmas dinner with our new friends, the Watsons - Prime Rib was delish! We ended up teaching them how to play Phase 10 and had a great time @ the table, playing cards and snacking! The kids were all downstairs playing with new games as well!
Christmas Eve, we went over to the Watsons for snacks and games. It was a quiet low - key evening (just as we like it) Jeff made homemade sauce but we ate so many wonderful things @ the Watsons, that we did not have any spaghetti for dinner. Two more friends came over (The Larsens) and we played Guesstures (charades) it was so much fun! After about 11pm , we walked home (next door) and got the kids into bed, and began the wrapping extravaganza! we finally got hungry again and so we heated up some pasta and had a quick snack before hitting the sack @ 2am!
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