Christmas Time

We had a very nice Christmas this year at home. We were happy to not have to travel anywhere (although we would have loved to be with family), and we had some nice relaxing days.

For our Christmas Eve dinner we had a baked ham, potatoes au gratin, green beans and homemade rolls. Dessert was our traditional crunchy ice cream balls. We read the story of Jesus' birth from Luke chapter 2 and sang a few Christmas carols. Anwyn played the piano for us to sing Silent Night, as well as We Wish You a Merry Christmas. The girls are still young enough that they didn't really have any trouble going to bed on time, then Jared and I got busy wrapping presents.

Christmas morning we were awake at our customary 7 a.m. The girls opened their stockings, we had a quick bite to eat, and then it was present time.

I guess we didn't really take that many photos this year. We had a lazy morning in our pajamas playing with our new things.

In the evening we went over to our friends' house (the Kays). We had great food, the kids played nicely (with dress-ups, a new game called Zingo, and much running and yelling among other things) and the adults even got to play a few games (Ticket to Ride and Dutch Blitz).