We had a very different Christmas for us, but it was a lot of fun! Christmas Eve started off with sleeping in, and a family breakfast. The kids were especially fiesty on this Christmas Eve day. We had plans to attend a Christmas Eve service in Santa Fe together, but Kimsey and Joshua were especially excited and took a long time falling asleep for their afternoon nap. So, Andrew held down the fort here preparing for a Christmas Eve get together at our house, while Shannon and I went to the Christmas Eve service. It was my first Presbyterian service, and it was very good. The music was nice, and the sermon was great too. I rushed back to help put together our party right as the guests arrived. Our neighbors, Jim, Shannon, James, Art, Shelly, Silas, and Josiah all came over. We had a big appetizer dinner. It was very yummy!! All the interns, Allison, Cierra, Jessica, Ian, and Peter all came too. The interns stayed to help us clean up, make a breakfast casserole for Christmas morning, and do a few "other" jobs! We played the infamous (in Gainesville, Ga anyway) Whunoo. It is a fabulous get to know you type game! We watched Hitch and sometime after 1am, we said good-bye to all our guests, and finished our late night job! Andrew and I crashed around 2am! Whew!
Joshua decided to open his, too!
Joshua started getting the hang of it, in just the nick of time!
Ta Da! New Christmas PJs!
Best Friends...
One of them loves to pose...any guesses???
Santa stopped by our house!
Can you believe the US Postal Service knows where Glorieta, NM is!
Well, the wild ones, aka Kimsey and Joshua finally crashed! We woke up on Christmas morning, started a fire and coffeee (the essentials to life). Then, we woke the kiddos! We had a great morning opening presents. In fact, we didn't even get through all of them before our late morning breakfast with our neighbors and the interns. We came home, finished opening our presents, and then the interns came over to wath The Bourne Ultimatum.
Merry Christmas!
Kimsey getting into her stocking!
Kimsey got a "people" hairbrush, some princess bracelets and hair stuff,
Joshua apparently sat on a gift bow, we didn't realize it for a little while, but
Justin sent some great gifts! Joshua loved his!
And very fiesty when the gift was unwrapped!
Kimsey loves her baby and baby doll bed!
Joshua loved all the toys including Kimsey's snow tube!
After our great day, and much needed nap, we woke up to make our first Christmas dinner all by ourselves. I had studied Rachael Ray very closely before attempting our first ham! Fortuantely it was a success! I am very proud, and we definatley have enough ham for 2008. No one needs to worry if we have food! Ha! Ha!
Drumroll please....!!!!
A close up, if you will!
This is our yummy ham with an orange sugar glaze
served with pears and apples!
The dinner presentation
We had a fabulous Christmas in New Mexico! We missed our friends and family in Georgia so much!! But, we have spread our wings and are flying out here starting new traditions and making new friends. We love you all!!
2 comments:
I love the Christmas Eve PJs. I'm so glad that you guys had people to celebrate with and that you also had a good time with just your little family. Establishing traditions is such a great thing and will be something that Kimsey and Joshua will alway associate with Christmas. We miss you.
Great job with the Ham holly! Will you mail me some? HaHa. I would've liked to see Kimsey and Joshua open their presents. It looks like they are as excited about Christmas as you are. I miss you guys. Give the kids a hug and kiss for me. Love you guys.
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