Christmas EveAnyways...we got ready, gathered the cookies, and headed out the door. Getting out of our parking lot was a little difficult. We have had sooooo much snow the past couple of weeks. I think this is the most it has snowed since I have been up here. We went to Idaho Falls to run some errands and drop off cookies. We went to lunch at TGI Fridays--where I was very grumpy and hungry. I get in the crankiest moods when I am hungry. I pity Scott when I am pregnant and having cravings. Poor man.
I lost my bracelet--found it--ran some more errands, and then we stopped at the Horchs. After a lovely chat we headed home.
We stopped at Walgreens to pick up a chocolate orange for Scott (Santa had forgotten). In the parking lot was this HUGE mountain of plowed snow. So we climbed it and were just silly. We dropped off a few more cookies, looked at Christmas lights around Rexburg and went home to open our Christmas Eve presents.
It is a tradition in my family to open one present on Christmas Eve--our Christmas pajamas! I loved mine for this year--they are a pj bottoms and a bejeweled sweater from Victoria's Secret. Scott got some Nike basketball shorts. I wish I took more pictures, but I feel silly taking a picture of me in my pajamas and putting it on this blog. We had dinner, read the Nativity, watched "A Christmas Story", put out our stockings and went to bed to await Santa! :)
And Santa came!!!!! So did a blizzard. We put on the Christmas lights and music and opened presents. It was my first white Christmas, and it was very pretty. After presents I made crepes with lemon creme filling and strawberries and some bacon and hot chocolate. Yum. We lounged around in our pajamas and played Seinfeld Scene It--which was so much fun. Scott and I are big Seinfeld fans. He put up a good fight, but I was the champion!After struggling to get our car out of our parking spot for about 15 minutes, we went with our friends and neighbors, the Jacksons, to see "Marley and Me." It was cute, but definitely not a kid movie like I thought it was going to be. (Scott got teary-eyed at the end :) Then we went back home, and had dinner with the Jacksons.
Later, we went with our friends, the Bundys, to see another movie. haha. We saw "Valkyrie." It was pretty good. I learned a lot about the German struggle with Hitler. Then we came home and went to sleep. It was a wonderful, but busy couple of days.
I was sad not to be with my family, but it was fun to celebrate a holiday with just Scott. He is the best present I could ever get.
7 comments:
We missed you guys, but it sounds like you had a great Christmas. It's fun to start your own traditions as a family.I want the recipe for the lemon cream sauce for the crepes-yummy!
The cookies were yummy. Thank you for thinking of us. We will miss you in the ward. Don't forget to post pictures of the new house.
i too want the recipe for the lemon sauce.. yummy!
we missed you guys here in pa. the kids kept asking if you were the big surprise we had been promising for months... but the surprise was actually a wii!! can't wait to school scott again in wii bowling =)
Sounds like you guys had tons of fun! Sometimes it's nice to just do low-key holidays together. :)
Cute! I love that blog. I have never had a white Christmas so that is pretty cool you got one. I am sure it was hard to be away from family though. I am dying to see Marley and Me. Hopefully we will see it soon. Hope you have a great News years!
That sounds like you had a wonderful Christmas! I got Carcassone (sp?) for Christmas and we need to play it with you and Scott at your new house!
Ok, I am laughing because I switched my blog over to blogspot and used this same layout because I though it was so cute! I must have seen it on your blog and liked it and then forgotten about it. At least I am copying someone with good taste!
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