Our Christmas

This year was the first year of Josh's life he hasn't had a "Christmas break" (though thankfully being in his psych rotation is about the closest thing you can get to that during third year ;) ) so with that and the distance and what not, we had Christmas here in Saginaw.  While we did miss our family, it was nice to do it with just our little family too and start some of our own traditions.  On Christmas Eve, we
had honey lime chicken enchiladas for dinner,

read the Christmas story in the Bible with the help of this fun Fisher Price nativity set Josh's grandma gave us

made cookies for Santa (you did know he's gluten free, right?)

exchanged our ornaments that show something from our year,

watched a personalized Santa video with Shane, then put the kids the bed so that Santa could come.  I think Santa may have had almost as much fun setting everything up as the kids did the next morning.

Christmas morning we woke up and saw what Santa had left out for us (including "Lewis Hamilton"- the car Mrs. Clause luckily found at Kroger the morning before when she realized that was what Shane thought Santa was bringing), checked out our stockings,

ate some cinnamon rolls,

then dressed in our best duds and went to church. 

We ate lunch candy from our stockings, Marissa napped a little, and we opened our presents,

and enjoyed the afternoon playing with all the new toys

We skyped with our families, had lasagna for dinner, and then relaxed on the couch with a new movie we'd gotten (The Blindside).

We were certainly spoiled and couldn't have asked for a much better day. Although it wasn't a White Christmas it was actually a beautiful day, and I'm sure we'll make up for the lack of snow in the coming months ;)  Merry Christmas everyone!

P.S. Thanks for all your Christmas cards, I have loved getting them, and sorry I have been too lazy to do my own this year!