We woke up Christmas Day, not at the crack of dawn! That's the beauty of living in a house with teenagers. They aren't so much the early risers as the little ones on Christmas Day. We all had fun opening our presents and cleaning up the paper and ribbons. Gramma and Papa H. came by to deliver and open a few themselves. They gave the great grands movies and the grands got hotpads (hand made) and a sharp paring knife etc. in their presents. It's always nice to get new things for the kitchen. It's my favorite room in the house. Grumpy and I got some good reading from Robert and some sparkling grape juice for the celebrations coming up. Grumpy got a nice History of Aircraft and I got Women of the Old Testament. Good books. I also got a Mary Englebright Fairy Tale book from Summer and Jamie. I love Mary Englebright's art, and I'm a sucker for a fairy tale. Also a good book. Got a great outdoor stove from Papa K. and can't wait to try it out. I think we are teaming up with Tawna and Nathan to do dutch oven pizza this Friday. We'll see how that goes. Grumpy and I got our griddle ahead of time this year for our gift. It has already been to R.B.'s for sandwiches, down to the dunes for more sandwiches and maybe a pancake or two. It will come in handy through the year I'm sure. Jade and Jeff gave us our favorite candy and some awesome coupons good for wonderful stuff in the weeks to come. We got a power generator/portable battery charger from R.B. and Stacie so Grumpy can get things started wherever he is. That has come in handy already too.
Tawna and Nathan were our hosts again this year for Christmas Day dinner. All the kids decided on Mexican Food potluck again, so we had quite the buffet. Jade made her famous Guacamole and her wonderful salsa for appetizers. Robert decided to do his version of the Louie's we all like at Mattas. He also went online and got a recipe for Jalapeno Cream Cheese. It was good, but we will play with that and hopefully get closer to the Geckco Grill recipe that we love. The Louie's were good, but we can fine tune those too. He did a great job figuring out how to make them and what to do different next time. He likes the kitchen too.
Summer and Jamie brought yummy Green Chile Chicken Enchiladas, R.B. and Stacie brought Green Chile Meat for burros, or not, I brought tamales (from Shar's), both green chile corn/chicken/cheese, and beef. I made a chocolate nutty delight for dessert. We love that stuff. Tawna and Nathan got salsa, tortillas, chips, rice, beans, lettuce, tomato and sour cream to fill in the gaps. People brought soda pop and it was a delicious dinner. We ate outside and it was nice. Faith made a banner to decorate the patio with. The cousins all ran around crazy and had fun. The adults all talked and did some more gift exchanging. We all got our annual invitation to Tawna and Nathan's dinner. She has done an awesome dinner for all the adults (her siblings and us) for three years now. It has been so great to get together without all the kids for once so the brothers and sisters can really visit and spend some time together. We are all looking forward to that coming up in February this year.
Taya is coming between Christmas and New Year's and we are excited to see her and Kevin and the kids. The best present is always being with family and the safe journeys we enjoy in our travels.
I have such a great family. I love them all so very much.
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loved having everyone over....anytime!
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