A Little More Christmas

Christmas 09 was just the four of us and was so nice and quiet. We started our celebration on Christmas Eve with our traditional Christmas dinner of Honey Baked Ham and Funeral Potatoes. It was delicious.

Notice Ali is eating waffles. Ahhhh..... I have decided that we definitely need to set a pretty table next year.

Then it was over the the Christmas tree to open presents. (Our tradition over the years has morphed into opening all of the presents on Christmas Eve, except for the gifts from Santa.)
First we opened the girls pjs. Because I am a mean Mom I made them stop opening gifts and go change into their pjs for pics.

Ali was showing us her muscles.

Ryen is always willing to strike a pose.

Then the fun of opening presents started......

Grandma and Grandpa sent these really cool marshmellow shooters.

Ali was excited to just open presents. Not sure she even cared what was in them.

Because the 2 million stuffed animals in this house aren't enough, Ryen added just one more.

There are always lots of hugs between opening gifts.

The next morning was a little bit more of present opening and then it was off to see Alvin and the Chipmunks: the Squekel, or whatever it was called. When we got there the movie was sold out so we bowled a game and then finally got to the movie. We also played the new Mario Brothers Game on the Wii, ate more ham and funeral potatoes, and spent a countless amount hours trying to figure out how to get iTunes to work on our new computer, but that is a whole other post.
We talked to family and listened to Grandma J read the Christmas story over and over. By far one of our favorite Christmas presents ever!!! The best part of the weekend was just being able to be together. We have never taken that granted spending time as a family (most military families don't), so we savor all of the moments when all that is in front of us is time together. Love it!!!!!!
We sure hope that everyone else had as good as Christmas as we were able to have. Thanks to all that sent Christmas gifts and cards. We loved them all.