Christmas!

Well, I have to admit that Joel and I were slackers when it came to taking pictures on Christmas. So you only get one lousy photo. Sorry! Between our central heat going out Christmas Eve and a massive gas leak in the other part of our house the same day, it's been a little hectic... We did have a great Christmas though, electric heaters and all :) We started off by making our favorite breakfast, eggs benedict, then we opened our gifts, then got to work. Every year we do a Christmas Craft of some sort, and this year we made holiday spoons. They're basically chocolate dipped spoons rolled in either sprinkles or crushed peppermints that you can stir your coffee with for a little extra holiday flavor. So we made all of those, wrapped them up, and used them for decorations to top off the gifts that we got our family and friends. Then I cooked our usual Christmas ham, homemade peppermint patties, and mini sweet potato pies which we took over to mom and dad's for our Christmas meal. We had a great time eating and playing games at their house, then we all went around to visit all of our family for the rest of the evening. The next morning Joel went hunting with my dad and they each got a deer, which I also have no photos of... Overall, we had a really great Christmas and weekend that followed, though we are both happy to have all the sweets out of the way!!!