Our First Christmas at Home

We had a great Christmas week. We all got up, packed and drove down to Utah on Thursday to have our Christmas Eve (Eve) dinner with Ryan's family - it's always so good to see everyone and have great food. Friday morning we packed up and headed home. We stopped in to see my Mom and the hospital made an exception and let Alex see her. Ryan and Connor really wanted to as well, but Ryan had a cold and Connor was getting it too so all the boys stayed in the car. It was great to see mom but hard too. We normally spend Christmas at her house every year, but we were also excited to have Christmas at our house in Idaho for the very first time in eight years and it didn't seem to disappoint, we had a great time.

Christmas Eve we did some of our traditions; feeding the reindeer, opening Christmas p.j.'s and making cookies for Santa. Then it was off to bed.

The kids woke up around 7:30 - not bad. They were all really excited about their pillow pets that Santa had left and all the other gifts too. Alex played all day with her Play Doh Cake Maker and Bendaroos. Connor carried his pillow pet around every where and Hayden well he kind of played with everyone else's stuff. He got a little jeep to ride on and he likes it but her really likes Connor’s Buzz Lightyear more I think.

Ryan was really sweet and got me a cashmere sweater, a pearl necklace, and really cute slippers. I love all of the gifts, but the electric blanket that he also got me has gotten the most use so far - I LOVE it! It is the best gift ever, I know that’s silly but I really do love getting into a warm bed.

To make things even better Ryan liked every thing I got him this year. I am only going to have to take one thing back and it's because it doesn’t really fit, but he says that he really wishes it did because he really liked it. I'm either getting better at buying for him or he is getting better and receiving gifts. J/K Ryan I like to give you a hard time.

After all the presents were opened Ryan and I started to make brunch, well Ryan did I helped with the eggs, but we all know he is a better cook and he likes to cook so I don't get in the kitchen that much when he is around.

It was a great Christmas and I can't wait to do it all over again next year at home.