Merry Christmas!

We hope your day is filled with family and fun (and great food!)

We are having a great time hosting the Bosche side of the family.   Hosting is hard work, but also great fun!

Its been a rainy weekend in Houston, but we've been warm and cozy in the house.

We made gumbo on Christmas Eve, with homemade shrimp stock!  It was a great meal for such a dreary day, and worked well since everyone arrived at different times.  We ate when we got hungry and kept it hot for when Gene and Mache arrived from Austin. 

We had a great time visiting and opened gifts on Christmas Eve.  Opening gifts on Christmas eve instead of Christmas day is tradition on BOTH sides of the family, and as hosts we decided to continue it, bonus we all got more time to enjoy the gifts and enjoy seeing each other enjoy the gifts we got.   There were lots of PJs exchanged and they were all worn that night!   After exchanging gifts we hang out and visit and had eggnog (I had hot chocolate since I'm not a fan of eggnog).

Kevin smoked a turkey for our Christmas Day dinner, and it was delicious.  We started working on it on Friday since he had to brine it then smoke it.....

I made side dishes, and also had some help from my family - it was a great spread of food, and we brought in some dishes from Christmases past - my favorite, cherry coke salad that my great aunt used to make....