Christmas Day!! (Part 1)

Christmas Day we were invited to come down to the Wagner's house. We joined my sister & her family & her in-laws. We arrived in the morning while they were finishing opening presents. We ended up staying until almost 10pm! We had a wonderful day & were delighted that they once again welcomed us into their home.

After presents, which included some birthday gifts & a Christmas gift for Tim from Mark & Laura - and a plant for us from Bill & Martha, we had a Mexican Christmas dinner. It was wonderful - so tasty.

Then it was off to finish setting up the kitchen that the girls had gotten for Christmas & naps. We lounged around for a few hours, played the Wii, Laura & I ran to the store for an emergency cookie ingredients run, & returned so she could make some delicious 7 layer brownie bars. Yum.

Later in the evening we had fondue. After we had all stuffed ourselves with as much goodness as we could hold, we broke into the Christmas Crackers. No, no, not more food - crackers as in presents. They were great! We found a box of them at Whole Foods & they held little whistles in them. 1 person was the conductor (can you guess who that was?) & the rest of the people played their flute when the conductor pointed to them. Together we played tons of Christmas carols - it was a blast! We will definitely get those again next year. And, they came with A CROWN!! What more could a girl want? :) Here are some photos from our wonderful day.

Mia & her new bear

Sleeping Beauty (yes, she asked that we call her that & would not respond when you called her Nellie...so funny)

Mark & Laura with their whistles & crowns from the crackers

Tim & I (as soon as Nellie (aka Sleeping Beauty) saw the camera, she ran to get into the photo)