Christmas

Christmas was crazy fun. First of all, since we were going to be gone for 10 days in the middle of December we did lots of fun Christmas stuff early on. We decorated the house the day after Thanksgiving and spent the next couple of nights watching Christmas movies in our bedroom while we both sat on the floor on opposites sides of our bed wrapping presents. That was fun :) We also went to the Festival of Trees, made gingerbread houses, and made TONS of yummy cookies to deliver to our friends and neighbors.












Then we got to spend 10 whole days in Michigan, it was so awesome! I hadn't been home to see my whole family since my Grandma's funeral last January so it was great to see my Grandparents, Aunts, Uncles, and cousins. We played games, visited friends, went to high school basketball games, had lots of Wesco hot chocolate and The Depot turnovers...yum! A couple days before we left we got to celebrate Christmas early with my family and it's always so fun to see people open the gifts that you've chosen for them!










Then after 8 hours of traveling on Christmas eve we made it back to celebrate Christmas at home. Chris's sister Ashley was in town and it was great to see her! Christmas Eve was a little more boring cuz the whole family was either sick or tired so Chris and I just went home and watched a movie. Christmas day was awesome though. We spent a couple hours at home opening our gifts from each other and enjoying our time at home together. Then we went over to his Mom's house and opened gifts with family, talked to my brother on his mission on the phone, had dinner with his aunt, uncle, and cousins, and celebrated his sister's Christmas day birthday. The next couple days we spent with his family before his sister left, lounging around at home eating leftovers and enjoying our Christmas presents :)
















It was such a wonderful holiday and we have lots of new memories now with both of our families. Now at the start of the new year we are setting new goals for ourselves and looking forward to what will hopefully be an awesome 2011!