A Very Merry Christmas

On Christmas Eve I finished decorating the sugar cookies I was so unprepared to make. When I looked up the icing recipe, I realized I didn't have powdered sugar. So after a quick trip to the store, we finally got the cookies decorated. 

Bonnie "helped" with the sprinkles. 

That afternoon we went to the outdoor service where the rain held off just long enough.

After the service the skies opened up and it started pouring. We went over to Katie's house for dinner. She made a delicious beef bourguignon. 

We carried on the classic pyramid picture tradition. 

Once we got home, it was time to get ready for bed. Eric read Bonnie The Night Before Christmas. 

And we set out a few cookies for Santa.

Christmas morning we started off opening stockings and getting breakfast going.

Benny made breakfast tacos (a tradition in his family).

And although Bonnie wasn't really into unwrapping gifts yet, she was very interested in what we received.

By about 10 AM Bonnie was very tired and ready for a nap, which meant it was time for us to hit the road and head up to mom and Dave's house!

We actually got some snow flurries on the drive up! The first snow we'd seen this season.

The drive went smoothly and when we got to moms house these two were inseparable! 

For the third year we each brought a stocking stuffer and opened them together, which has been a fun new tradition.

Then we got right into our gift exchange.

This house is so festive and perfect for the holidays!

Benny and I were very excited to get some new much needed pots and pans.

Bonnie loved her blocks, toy remote, and stuffed dog. She went down for another nap while we finished opening presents.

Then mom got right to work on a delicious Christmas dinner - prime rib, yorkshire pudding, brussel sprouts, salad and potatoes.

I'm sure this girl can't wait to help grandma in the kitchen.

It was so delicious - thank you!!

After this little one went to bed, it was time to get into some games. Eric got us a new trivia game that we played a couple times, and he also got mom a card shuffler so we could more easily play Hand and Foot.

Bonnie was very into Maggie, as usual.

The next morning mom made cinnamon rolls and we got to have a slow morning. And a benefit to this one still napping twice a day is that we had extra game time together!

There's pretty much nothing better than playing games and going for a hike in my opinion. It was much too cold to be outside so this was perfect.

Mom found a tub of our old stuffed animals for B to play with.

And a rocking horse just her size.

On Sunday it was time to head home. We had such a great weekend with a lot of great quality time. Thank you for having us!