Christmas Day

Christmas day was peaceful and brought the joy of the season. As I previously stated, Santa was generous. We ate brunch and enjoyed our new gifts. Even the dogs got just what they wanted! And di I mention Santa brought us a new Dyson vacuum?! I had made the kids add it to their list to be sure Santa heard. lol. and We called all of our loved ones back home to wish them our love and holiday cheer and then we went to Brian and Danielle's for Christmas dinner. There were four of us couples, along with our kiddos and I LOVE that everyone has become such close friends. Danielle made traditional lasagna, we brought the salad, Jen and Phillip brought the bread (long story ;) and Jason and Kelli brought dessert (Kelli made fabulous pies that no one had room for following dinner)! lol. Despite being a little behind schedule, it went off without a hitch. The kids had there own two tables (one for buys, one for girls) and Danielle brought out the china. It was peaceful and intimate and one of my favorite Christmas' to date. Following dinner we had the adult gift exchange. Chris and I ended up with awesome pressents. Mine is a set of tall mugs that say "naughty" on one side and "nice" on the other and he got a "National Lampoon's" set which he loves. We played Imaginiff-a game of getting to know each other. It brought tons of laughs and shared joy and coined the phrase "He got it from the ass!" -rofl-thanks Kelli. That's a whole other story. lol, and Brian can now be called Marvin instead. It got late and everyone rounded up about midnight. We couldn't ask for a better group of friends here. It really is home now.

*You'll have to review the phots backwards to accompany my journal.