Jan
18
I swear I’m going to get all my holiday posts up before January is over! I’m working on it!
Christmas Eve was about the same as usual. We went to my Dad’s place where he had all the extended family over. Baby Jack, as Eleanor always calls him, not just Jack, always Baby Jack, seemed a little overwhelmed by all the people and things to look at.
In the middle of dinner we were surprised by the choir from a local high school. My aunt had hired them to come and sing some carols for us. They were actually pretty good. It was kinda cool!
The extended family took off after dinner and our white elephant gift exchange. Once everyone had gone we opened our gifts. My brothers got their usual matching shirts, which is always pretty funny when we get to the third brother opening the same thing. I wonder what it will be!
Maria and I also got some matching t-shirts too.
Even Baby Jack opened some gifts. He was pretty excited about the wrapping paper.
It had gotten pretty late by the time we were done, and Eleanor passed out before we left. We got her home and straight into bed. And even though she was asleep I still managed to remember to put out some milk and cookies for Santa!
Christmas morning will be up tomorrow (probably)!
Jan
13
Continuing with my late recap of the Holidays…the weekend before Christmas we celebrated Hanukkah with Josh’s family. We were actually celebrating early since Hanukkah started so late this year. We hosted the usual dinner at our place. I made regular and sweet potato latkes. The sweet potato ones were super tasty.
After dinner we exchanged gifts.
Josh and I along with his sister and sister-in-law Jenny got Josh’s dad an album of photos from their childhood, from their parent’s wedding through Josh and Beth’s graduations from high school. It was a project that I had been working on for literally years. I’ll dedicate a post to the album and the enormous project that it was later.
For now, I’ll say that Josh’s dad loved it.
We also made an album for Josh’s dad and step-mom of their wedding that I shot last year. They hadn’t gotten around to ordering an album from me and the day after Christmas was their one year anniversary, so I decided that I’d just choose their images and album design for them! Luckily they were very happy with it!
Eleanor also got some gifts that she was very happy with.
Christmas Eve with my family is up next!
Jan
12
Okay, so it’s about time that I catch up on holiday posts! The weekend before Christmas we spent an evening looking at Christmas lights. It’s one of my very favorite holiday traditions! We get some hot drinks, gingerbread lattes for Josh and I and hot apple cider for Eleanor (the strange kid doesn’t like cocoa!), we put some Christmas music on the car stereo and we drive around town looking at the streets with the best holiday light displays! So much fun!
Here are some of my favorites lights this year:
More holiday fun coming soon!
