Christmas Festivities

Christmas was not just a day for us this year but a whole weekend! We started out at Jake's parent's house on Saturday where we enjoyed going shopping, ear candles and a great ham dinner. (Don't ask about the ear candles!) Jenna had a bad night so we left pretty early on Sunday, which turned out to be a pretty low-key day. In the evening, Jake's brother Tim and his friend Will came to visit us for the first time and it was really fun to show them our new place. Jake and I watched "Christmas with the Kranks" and geared up for more holiday fun on Monday and Tuesday. Monday night we headed over to my parents house for our traditional Christmas Eve snack-fest which always includes Li'l Smokies! Jenna wore her special Christmas jammies Aunt Missy sent and Jake and I had fun playing "Santa" even though Jenna had no idea what was going on. We were so excited for her to open gifts this morning that we forgot to give her a bottle! She didn't seem to mind. She was pretty focused on some curling ribbon. She did rip the paper off one gift and didn't really understand why we cheered her on because we usually tell her NOT to rip paper. After getting cleaned up, we headed back over to my parents for some traditional cinnamon rolls, basketball, football, and lots and lots of cookies and goodies. My Grandma Brooks came over and it was nice to see her. We really appreciate our parents being so generous and making Christmas special. We love this time of year and our dragging our feet as we head "back to life, back to reality" (that's a song.... I don't know who sings it but it always pops into my head after a vacation....)