Christmas 09

I forgot to blog about our fabulous Christmas. We made a nice dinner on Christmas Eve just for us 6. We smoked a turkey but it didn't get done in time. In fact, it got done at 1 am. It would not cook in smoker so we finished cooking it in the oven finally. The rest of the dinner was delicious though. Abbey and Kyra left Santa a lot of goodies. They left him smashed cookies, oranges and water for the reindeer. They also left out some paper towells so the reindeer wouldn't pee on our floor. FUNNY!

Christmas morning was fun. It seemed a lot calmer than other years. The kids didn't wake up until 8 am. They were all so excited!! Jacob got Cars geo trax so he didn't even care about the rest of his presents or his stocking.

We each took turns opening presents and taking pictures. There was still a huge paper, box mess when we were done but we just left it there until the afternoon. Santa brought a box of cookie crisp so we didn't even have to make breakfast (fabulous for me)!

I gave Bobby the 80's rock ballad CD's and I think he really liked them because we listened to all of them (yes, all of them) that day. The Barlow's came over and we had smoked turkey (how convinient) and made the dinner really simple!!! I was really happy how it all turned out. I think we just found ourselves some new traditions!