I know that I haven't been very good at keeping up with the fast-paced Christmas activities, but here is my attempt at catching up a little...So, after the Chicago train ride, we spent the following weekend at various holiday parties. I had already mentioned Devin's ugly sweater party... We also attend my brother and his wife's annual Christmas party and every year it proves to be a great time. Unfortunately, it was the same night as the big snow storm! We finally left the county at about midnight and all was going well on the roads... until we got almost home... On Hampton, the road dips a little and veers to the left... Well, the car didn't go left and we ended up on the sidewalk after mowing over two gas poles (?)... A cop driving by noticed our situation and stopped to offer a little assistance as well as call the gas company. It wasn't until we had the Laclede Gas guys and Ian combined with some creative macgyver there that we could get the car back on the road.
The following weekend was the much awaited Cookie Baking party. Being the 5th year, we have gotten really good at efficiency! 8 bakers were complete by about 10pm, I think!
The Christmas holiday was filled with lots of good food, wonderful family, and great gifts! On Christmas Eve, we went over to my Mom and Dad's. Everything was delicious and the boys were really cute. Drew wanted to play with Jackson's presents, and Jackson wanted Drew's!
On Christmas day, Matt and I woke up to open our own presents... I got a new board game and a roll out shelf for the pantry and Matt got the Bourne Ultimatum and glass shelves for his bar downstairs. Denver and Malibu enjoyed their gifts as well. After that, we headed over to the Binning house. We opened the enormous pile of gifts and had fun playing games until dinner was served. All in all it was a wonderful (and exhausting) holiday!
The Christmas holiday was filled with lots of good food, wonderful family, and great gifts! On Christmas Eve, we went over to my Mom and Dad's. Everything was delicious and the boys were really cute. Drew wanted to play with Jackson's presents, and Jackson wanted Drew's!
On Christmas day, Matt and I woke up to open our own presents... I got a new board game and a roll out shelf for the pantry and Matt got the Bourne Ultimatum and glass shelves for his bar downstairs. Denver and Malibu enjoyed their gifts as well. After that, we headed over to the Binning house. We opened the enormous pile of gifts and had fun playing games until dinner was served. All in all it was a wonderful (and exhausting) holiday!
4 comments:
sorry i didnt get that picture sent to you yet. i will do it when i get back on wed. :) Hope you have a good new years!
I was hoping for an early night! Oh well; we had fun!
How've you been? Did my husband ever email you our pictures? (I still don't get the scan and send feature of our printer).
I only put up the pictures I didn't look totally huge in. Wait til you see me tomorrow. You'll see I'm huge and getting more swollen. At least it will go away at some point.
It's a new year... do we get a new post? :)
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