Happy Holiday!

Jeremy and I are lucky to have our families living so close. But it also makes for a busy, fun filled couple of days. We celebrated Christmas eve with Jeremy's extended family at the VFW hall in Mercer Island. I would guess there were around 100 people in attendance this year. It's a crazy potluck dinner, and Santa comes afterward with gifts for the kids.

Christmas Day started with the four of us exchanging gifts. Derick was up at 6:50am and ready to open presents. We did our best to delay him, but that only lasted about 20 minutes. So, we woke Darla and got it started.

Jeremy's brothers, sisters, and parents joined us for dinner Christmas day. We decorated cookies (a new, old tradition), ate very well, and exchanged gifts. The elephant exchange was a blast; I got a HUGE box of my mother-in-law's old Tupperware. I'm actually going to keep quite a bit of it! The kids had fun giving each other gifts and the evening sped by.

The day after Christmas was spent with my family in Edmonds. My sister and her hubby hosted a breakfast feast this year. We got spoiled in all the right ways. We were having such a nice time, we just stayed the whole day! Darla took a nap in Sydney's crib and Derick had some quiet time while Cooper crashed. We played video games and visited. Dinner was leftover ham sandwiches. YUM!

It was a beautiful weekend. Here's hoping yours was filled with love, peace, and joy!