Merry Christmas!
Our Christmas was so nice! We definitely missed seeing our families and spending the holiday with them but we had a nice time celebrating and being together.
On Christmas Eve we watched The Grinch and cooked some yummy dinner and had our friends Wes and Anna over for Christmas dinner. I'm so mad I didn't capture a picture of it! It was just so picture perfect and yummy. I made a honey baked ham (thanks to Costco for the ham and my mom for the extra glaze recipe). I also made some yummy mashed potatoes. Anna made fabulous rolls, veggies and pumpkin pie! We also celebrated with apple cider and homemade Wassail. Last Christmas I got Grandma Van's recipe and we finally made it. It was yummy!
After dinner we watched the movie Elf. Never gets old :) Then Wes and Anna took off and we skyped Ryan's family so we could watch the family talent show. The nieces' and nephews' talents were all so cute! It definitely made us miss everyone. The adults' talents were also pretty hilarious :) It's a fun family tradition that Ryan's family does. After chatting with Ry's fam we got each others stockings ready and headed to bed.
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| A screen shot of Karli and Danny's awesome talent :) |
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| Addie was so cute dancing and twirling to "Let it Go." We miss her! |
Christmas morning we had quiche, oranges, and wassail for breakfast. Then we read the Christmas story in the Bible and opened our stockings and presents. We just took our sweet time and enjoyed being together and dragging it out throughout the day.
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| 36 weeks pregnant on Christmas morning! |
After presents we had leftovers from Christmas Eve dinner and called our families to wish them a Merry Christmas. It will be fun to live closer to our families next Christmas so we can hopefully be with them for the holidays! Later we watched Home Alone and Ryan's family favorite, Arthur's Perfect Christmas haha :)
Christmas was wonderful and it was so fun to think that next Christmas we will have an almost one year old!! So crazy! Usually, once Christmas is over it's so sad because the "most wonderful time of the year" is over. However, this year...it wasn't so sad. In fact I was kind of excited! Not that Christmas was over but to think about what was lying not so far ahead! Now that Christmas is over we have our daughter coming in less than a month! The best Christmas present is coming in just a few weeks :)
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| So in love with this man. |
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