On Christmas Eve, Eve was run around like mad and get everything done. We have a couple of last minute things to do which turned into and all day event. Like a was holding a piece of the vacuum in my hand. DH got it called in for service but I needed to take it in. Great. Due to the holidays it is going to take at least two weeks to get the part in and get it taken care of. Well given my love affair with the Dyson's it is a good thing that I have second one. I can still vacuum, I just have to lug it up and down the stairs which may not be a bad thing. The next thing on our list was to hit Old Navy so we can hit the snow this weekend. There is tons of snow in our mountains. So we went there to get beanies and gloves. WooHoo! We hit a couple of other places but it is all a blur now.
It was time to come home and start the baking. I actually found cinnamon chips and bought all the bags that were in the store. All seven of them. So we made 3 dozen oatmeal raisin cinnamon chip cookies. Two dozen chocolate chip cookies and then the girls frosted some of those. In the midst of all that craziness, I was making tamales and dinner. Chicken enchiladas, beans and rice for that dinner. Chicken Mole for the tamales. So 4 dozen tamales later we were set for the beginning for delivering Christmas goodies. Before we could do that, The Rassmussen's stopped by to Carole us and bring treats!!! It was so cute to have the 3 boys and parents singing to us. I should have taken a picture!
Christmas Eve started with a breakfast for us at work. IHOP here we came. We exchanged Secret Santa gifts and chatted away at breakfast. Then I did a quick stop at Sherry's to drop off their Christmas Yummy's. I got to meet her adorable Grandmother and give Naomi a morning hug! When I returned home my Mother in law (MIL) was already working hard on the Turkey that we were going to eat later. See a Salvadorean Turkey is very different from your normal turkey. It is so juicy and yummy, capers and olives YUM! There is no way to describe it beside YUM. We sat around that table laughing and giggling about silly things, like the first time I ever ate that turkey. DH invited me over for Christmas Eve dinner, the day before we got engaged and I was not prepared. I really did pick at it and poor MIL was so offended because it appeared I did not like it. Well that was before I decided that trying new food was not such a bad thing. See I used to be SUPER picky. Now not so much. So well back to dinner, the turkey is served with rice, salad and french bread. We all sat around and laughed and just had fun.
Once we cleaned up a bit, it was time for more Christmas Eve fun. Off to see the neighborhood lights. There is a street where is seems the neighbors are in a contest to see who could possibly put more lights up. I confess I got a little cranky when Princess Girly Girl got tired of posing but off we went. There was a gingerbread house to put together. That took a little more time then we thought but it was funny to hear DH and the girls laughing about it. Once that was done it was time to clean up, put out Christmas Cookies for Santa and carrots for the reindeer. We have a tradition of reading the same Christmas Story every year. Dh read that to us and then it was time to open one present before bed. The tradition of pajamas continued. We sent the girls up to bed and waited. We did everything that needed to be done and went off to bed.
Now, Christmas morning we got to sleep in!! The girls continued the tradition of sleeping in!!! Yeah! There are some Christmas mornings that we go wake up the girls because we can not wait any longer. We waited this year. It was a fun morning of opening presents, ohhhhing and ahhhhing over the fun gifts. Then Dh and I made an awesome breakfast of omelets and all the fixings. A couple of weeks ago, when MIL joined us we decided it was time to renew a Christmas Tradition that we had a few years ago when she was with us before. Christmas Movie! Off to the movies we all went to see Bedtime Stories. It is a great movie. We all laughed and had a good time. Once we got home we started dinner of turkey and more laughter. While we missed our friends and our usual Christmas Dinner, we did have lots of fun renewing some old traditions. After dinner, it was a relaxing evening watching the girls play with there new things and relaxing on the couch.
It all had to come to an end and we headed to bed to go back to the rat race the next day.
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LOOKS LIKE U HAD FUN TELL MEGAN I SAID HI!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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