Christmas

Christmas this year was wonderful. Not only did we get our power back, it stayed on through the holidays and through the visit of my family that stayed with us. YEAH!

Growing up, we had all sorts of tradtions that I tried to keep this year and in future years. One is a Beef Fondu dinner. We cook our own beef in the fondu pots and dip them in delicious sauces and eat until we cant move. Of course there is my Grandmothers yummy cranberry salad. This is probably my most favorite dinner ever!! Another fun thing that we do during dinner is open those poppers, that have prizes and paper crowns and silly jokes. And yes, we wear the crowns through dinner.

Left to right - Eric, my Grandmother, Mom and Dad.

After we finish dinner, we finish opening our presents, in which we were very spoiled this year. Then, of course, we go to bed early so that Santa can come. :)

Christmas morning, we eat a traditional quiche and then look to see what Santa brought. This year, Santa actually made a special visit... Literally down our long driveway. He drove up in a spruced up, shiny red 1949 original to Ravensdale Firetruck. He and his elf asked if we had any children... we said not yet, but one on the way. They gave us, or rather our little girl her first toy, a pink Care Bear.

My dad, far right, was so into this old firetruck that he went out and started chatting with the fire chief. Hahaha, my dad is so funny!

After we spent a wonderufl morning together, my parents and grandmother went back to their house and Eric and I went to Eric's parents to celebrate Christmas and have dinner there.

Our camera ran out of juice, so we didn't get many pics there, however, all the boys got some Seahawks gear, including little Sophia. We had just enough juice to get this one shot of them in their new gear.