Merry Christmas!
We celebrated our first Christmas on our own this year, and we had a lot of fun starting some traditions for our little family and relaxing.
Santa came early to our house! He delivered this dining table and chairs on the 23rd. We are so happy to finally have a nice table- our garage sale set from our college years was starting to fall apart!
Santa brought these too! We donated our dishes to Goodwill before moving to Nashville, and then weren't able to buy new ones when we got here! My mom gave us some of her extra ones to hold us over, and we're so glad to have enough plates to have people over for dinner now.
Now for the good stuff! We started our Christmas celebration on Christmas Eve, adding the tradition of giving each other new pajamas and slippers for the holiday. We stayed in our pajamas ALL DAY LONG on Christmas Day, and it was awesome!!
Christmas morning started off great with breakfast. We had homemade eggnog and cinnamon rolls (Thanks to Tiff for the recipe!). Delicious! We enjoyed them so much that we decided to add this breakfast to our Christmas tradition list as well.
Christmas dinner! Here's the spread: Honeybaked ham (from my boss for Christmas), mashed potatoes and gravy, green bean casserole, sweet potatoes and apples, stuffing, Hawaiian pineapple salad, and homemade rolls.
Just in case you want a closer look...we have lots of leftovers!
Dessert! Scarlet and cream cheesecake, made with cranberries. It turned out great.
Yummy! Please excuse the "fine china." We were tired of doing dishes. =)
We had a great day, spending time together and playing some games that Santa brought us. We missed being with our families, but we knew we'd be seeing them soon.
We're travelling to Indianapolis to spend time with Matt's family for New Year's weekend, and then to my parent's house the following weekend to have a late Christmas with my family, since my brother will be on leave. We're very excited to be seeing all of them soon!
