First, happy New Year’s Eve!  We’ll be celebrating at home in our pj’s…that’s about all this 36 week pregnant girl can handle.

Second, continuing on with Christmas. After we checked out all of Santa’s surprises and ate some Christmas pancakes, we got ready for our Christmas visitors!  GJ came back over with Daddo and Susu and the present opening began!

Just when the boys thought all of the presents from GJ and Daddo had been opened, we told them to head up to the playroom for a big surprise!

Gymnastics equipment! A bar, 2 mats and a balance beam!  Fun!

We also raised their play table and got some chairs for them to sit in.

It was then time for some of the Montgomery crew to arrive! Lulu, Granddad, Mary Beth and Holland all showed up armed with more presents to be opened!

It was then time to eat!

For my memory, we had pork crown roast, broccoli salad, holiday rice, green beans, Lulu’s squash casserole, ham from Mary Ellen, GJ’s rolls, Mrs. Connor’s chocolate cake, and the soooo good apple cranberry cake. Quite a meal!

I’d say everyone enjoyed the meal…especially the dessert!  🙂

And just because I wasn’t in one single picture all day, here’s an iPhone pic of me Christmas night…worn out and very happy!

A very merry Christmas for sure! But we still had more celebrations to come! See you soon!

Welcome back! Another Christmas come and gone…but it sure was a good one. We got to see tons of family and make some memories in our new house. I really don’t think anything could have gone better!  Most of the decorations are already down and my empty house is looking even more empty without all the Santas sitting around. A little sad, but we’ve got lots to look forward to in the weeks ahead!  But first we’ve got to recap Christmas!

The buildup to the big day was fun all on its own. Christmas Eve we spent getting ready for Santa and hanging out with family.  We went to the 12:00 “family friendly” nativity service up at church.  The boys sure did look sweet all dressed up for church!

I love going to that service because the kids can come with us and they sing all the classic Christmas songs you know while telling the story of the nativity.  Both boys acted great – Maxwell was a star and Spencer got an A thanks largely to about 6 graham crackers!  🙂

I spent the afternoon cooking away for Christmas and was glad to have my helper to taste test everything…well, the desserts anyway!

That night, my family came over for some Feliz Navidad tacos and then we set out cookies, milk and reindeer food…

and then we all settled in for a long winter’s nap….