Food, family, fun times, and smiling kids…..nothing could be better.
My mom and dad came up on Thursday night after driving to the Oregon coast first (they picked up ½ bushel of fresh oysters for Christmas Eve dinner). My mom helped me finish baking our family recipe cookies, (I think we baked over 160 cookies). On Friday we iced and decorated them…nothing like waiting till the very last moment!! Danny and Judy arrived about 3:00 PM that same afternoon.
Our house was full, but like I told Paul….I would rather have a full house than an empty house!!!
Paul unfortunately had to go into work Christmas Eve, but only had to work about 2 hours, he was home just in time for dinner…fresh oysters, fresh crab, and Metropal bread….yummy!!!! Later that night we let the kids open up 1 gift, but I got to chose the gift….. Maddux opened up a gift from Aunt Bernie and Paityn up her photo book from Paul and I. The last 2 years I have made a photo book of her softball year. She likes them, but I’m sure in years to come they will be more special to her. I enjoy making them.
The kids ending up going to bed about 9:00 PM and then the crazy Santa helpers came out to play!!!! Actually Paul, Danny, and Judy went to bed, so it was just me, my mom, and dad that were up till early in the morning. Danny and Judy don’t normally give stockings to each other, so this was all new to them. I go a little crazy at Christmas and no one knows what to expect!!!
I had 6 stockings to fill, cookies, milk, and carrots to eat, letters to write back from Santa, and place all the gifts under the tree. Busy night, but I LOVE IT!!!!
Christmas morning arrived at about 7:30 AM this year. The kids let me sleep in a little!!!
We all got up, of course made coffee, and all opened the stockings from Santa together. It took about 1 ½ hours to unwrap all the gifts that were underneath the tree. The kids received everything they had asked for and we all had a wonderful morning. We then had French toast and bacon for breakfast and then relaxed.
Later that day the Rubottom’s came down to open more presents and have Christmas dinner with us. We had 12 people for dinner!!!
There was one sad part of the day....our VERY close friends "The Cedarwalls" were moving to Reno the day after Christmas. We were very fortunate and they came to visit us Christmas night. Lillee (Maddux's girlfriend) was able to spend the night at our house and Paityn spent the night at their house. They will always be in our life and we will forever love them!!!!
Merry Christmas to all!!!!
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