This year's holiday visits were a little different than those of past years. Mostly, we didn't have to drive half or even a quarter as far as we have in the last 3 years. Thank the heavens. It started out with the annual family party at my Aunt's house. We had a slightly smaller crowd this year, but still some 30 people hanging out and little ones running around. We did manage the get most of the younger branch of the family on the stairs for a group shot though.
On Christmas day Rob and I got to enjoy the morning to ourselves for the first time ever. It was actually quite nice. We opened out presents ate a bunch of cookies, made breakfast and then went to my parent's house for lunch. The flaw in our morning was the part where we made breakfast. At the time this seemed like a brilliant idea, however with the amount of food that was prepared for later in the day, we really could have skipped it. By lunch we were full for the rest of the day and still had one more stop to my sisters.
Christmas at my parents house was pretty awesome. Rob and I got new PJ pants, our bread maker, and I got my first silver bell. My parents were the happy recipients of gifts from Germany and my dad got a new shirt and tie to celebrate his weight loss and Joyce got a quilt that's not quite done, but looks like this. (Cat not included) It's my first ever attempt at making one and I think it turned out pretty darn good. ;)
From there we went to my sister's house for visiting with that part of my family and dessert. It was hard to find room, but I did my best to make room for cheesecake. We did our silly family gift exchange and hung around for turkey sandwiches on homemade bread. It's delicious! We called it a night and headed back to our house to get loaded up for the next day for the drive to Rob's family gathering at his Grandmother's house!
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